A liposuction or a breast augmentation is regarded as therapeutic procedure if the patient’s physical or mental problems are treated. These procedures are classified as “cosmetic surgery” if they just serve as alteration of the body’s contours. This gets clarified as part of the anamnesis together with the patient during the consultation appointment.
As general practitioner for DDr. Heinrich there is always the whole person to the fore, not only his or her “problem zone”. Meanwhile we rarely do mere body modifications, because our main focus is – taking highest ethical standards as a basis – on improving the patient’s life quality by treating physical or mental problems through gentle procedures.
Thus DDr. Heinrich is very reserved regarding body modifications with no therapeutic goal. The variety of the human appearance, also or especially when it doesn’t correspond to the current ideal of beauty, makes the world colorful and interesting and should by no means make way for a certain optimized “standard body”. For that reason by this time patients we treat nearly always pursue a therapeutic purpose, even if they do a liposuction or a breast augmentation. Of course it is our ambition to fulfill the highest aesthetic standards in all of our procedures.