{"id":71,"date":"2010-10-08T16:49:14","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T16:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/?p=71"},"modified":"2011-01-14T16:52:09","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T16:52:09","slug":"had-any-work-done-banana-roll-0780","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/had-any-work-done-banana-roll-0780\/","title":{"rendered":"Had any Work Done, Banana Roll?-0780"},"content":{"rendered":"

Walk past a break room in a cosmetic surgery<\/a> clinic in the near future and you\u2019re likely to hear a volley of child-like insults. There\u2019s no need to be alarmed, however, as there is an explanation, albeit a strange, slightly humorous one.<\/p>\n

Cosmetic surgeons have become linguists and have developed a lexicon of slang terms for wrinkles and collections of fat found on people\u2019s bodies.<\/p>\n

Crow\u2019s feet and lines around the eyes associated with squinting and staring at computer screens have been replaced by the slapstick moniker of \u201ccomputer face\u201d.<\/p>\n

Have years of puffing away on cigarettes left you with unsightly lines around your mouth? Cosmetic surgeons have dubbed them \u201csmoker\u2019s lines\u201d. Those horrible vertical lines between your eyebrows have also been given their time to shine with a nametag bearing the word \u201celevens\u201d.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t end there, however. Pooling of fat beneath the buttocks is now referred to as a \u201cbanana roll\u201d and deep creases that seem to look like parentheses around your mouth have been nicknamed \u201cMarionette lines\u201d.<\/p>\n

None of these words are considered legitimate medical terminology, thankfully, but that hasn\u2019t stopped cosmetic surgeons from using them. In fact, new slang terms are constantly being invented to describe every fault and wrinkle.<\/p>\n

The real test of these monikers, however, is working out if they are beneficial or can function simply as inside jokes within the nip\/tuck industry.<\/p>\n

According to Catherine Maley, president of a company that creates marketing strategies for cosmetic physicians, the cutesy epithets can \u201ctake away the mystique of the procedure being too technical, surgical and serious\u201d and surgeons should use the terms if they will make their patients feel at ease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Walk past a break room in a cosmetic surgery clinic in the near future and you\u2019re likely to hear a volley of child-like insults. There\u2019s no need to be alarmed, however, as there is an explanation, albeit a strange, slightly humorous one. Cosmetic surgeons have become linguists and have developed a lexicon of slang terms […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":888008809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[73,24,74],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmetic-surgery","tag-cosmetic-surgeons","tag-cosmetic-surgery-2","tag-slang-terms"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t