AHMEDABAD:A woman craving to have pouting lips like actress Rekha might not seem unusualbut how about men wanting to have dimples like Bollywood stars Shahrukh Khan orPreity Zinta?

An increasingnumber of men have been found approaching plastic sugeons asking them to carryout cosmetic surgery on their cheeks and construct dimples like that ofBollywood actor Sharukh Khan, according to a noted plastic surgeon of the city.

"Among the men and women whocome to me for cosmetic surgery I found a large number of them fascinated by thedimples of actress Preity Zinta and Sharukh Khan and want me to constructdimples on their cheeks" said Dr Bijal Parekh a noted plastic surgeon of thecity.

It is not just theyoungsters who want to ape the cine stars and models even older people crave tolook like them. "In fact, a 50-plus man, who was getting remarried, asked me todo facial surgery on him and give him the dimples of Sharukh Khan", Parekh said.

Plastic surgery involvessurgical procedure to improve the patient's appearance or perform reconstructivesurgery to correct defects. It focuses on two broad fields. Reconstructivesurgery including microsurgery for masking the destructive effect of a trauma ordefect and cosmetic surgery to change features of the body which the patientsmight find unflattering.

Incosmetic surgery, most people want reduction of fat in abdomen, hip and upperthighs through liposuction which involves a procedure wherein the body fat isconverted to a liquid and is sucked out.

Liposuction is one of the mostpopular cosmetic surgery in which special instruments and technique are used toliquefy the fat and suck it out. Very small incision is put near the fattyareas. Since it is practically non-invasive it is also known as key-holesurgery. A patient who gets admitted in the hospital in the morning can bedischarged in the evening and from the very next day he can perform almost allhis routine works, Dr Parekh said.

While the percentage of menand women going in for face cosmetic surgery is more or less same, in case ofliposuction the ratio of females is much more than males. "This is because thefat content usually is more in the females as compared to the males," headded.

Among the youngsters,the cosmetic surgery they want is removal of fat from thighs, buttocks andflanks of abdomen. This is because they want to have shapely buttocks so theycan wear jeans, the doctor added.

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