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Exploring body dysmorphia and facial aesthetics
Zainab Al-Mukhtar discusses an important ethical dimension of facial aesthetic treatments and how to manage body dysmorphia in patients. Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a ‘persistent preoccupation with one or more perceived defects or flaws in appearance that are either unnoticeable or only slightly noticeable to others’.…