Consultations in aesthetic and plastic surgery centers increase due to Snapchat dysmorphia

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Snapchat dysmorphia, the self-image perception disorder, is increasing more and more in plastic aesthetic clinics, as reported by the Spanish Association of Plastic Aesthetic Surgery (AECEP).

Also known as Zoom dysmorphia, it is an altered subjective phenomenon of the self-image caused by an optical distortion of the camera that generates a

-perception related to the increase in videoconferences, which force us to spend long periods of time staring at ourselves. causing a

snapchat dysmorphia

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Although filters are not used, the cameras alter the image due to the quality of the video and lighting.

In addition, a portrait taken 30 centimeters away

, compared to one taken 1.5 meters away, and also results in a

In this sense, the president of the AECEP, Isabel Moreno, has reported that

who show her a photo of themselves with a filter, and

"The obsession that is generated by our image is based on unreal effects. Instagram filters are not created for each face and going from that to reality are situations of

, since, above all, they want to transform their face. But we cannot transform a face. These are unrealistic situations," he said.

In the same way, the aesthetic plastic surgeon and member of ethics of the association, José Angel Lozano Orella, commented that at a virtual level it is "very easy" to correct defects and perfect them, but at a real level "everything goes through surgery ".

"To this is added the

who present physical models with

and capture an image of success and satisfaction that influence all the followers of these accounts and, especially, adolescents.

are shared on social networks, trivializing the process

and distorting its reality, encouraging access to them.

It is our responsibility to ensure that all this does not happen and wait until the patient reaches sufficient physical and emotional maturity to face surgery," he concluded.

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