“Leave it alone, it will go away” is the instructions doctors specify to patients and parents of children with a vascular birthmark (“Vascular Birthmarks”). According to research, “It is estimated that approximately 10% of births have a vascular birthmark – that’s about 400,000 children per year in the United States alone” (“Vascular Birthmarks”). The two main types of vascular birthmarks are Hemangiomas, a non-cancerous tumor of skin composed of abnormal lymph vessels, and Malformations, an inborn growth of skin containing arteries, capillaries, veins, or lymphatic vessels. It is no longer necessary for patients to suffer through emotional and physical pain while waiting for their lesion to disappear, because today the medical field has advanced its technology and clinical experiences in order to manage vascular birthmarks. However, there is not a recommendation treatment that fits any birthmark; the treatment choice depends on the degree of disfigurement, location, type, and severity (“Birthmarks”). Vascular birthmarks, the benign skin growths comprised of rapidly growing or poorly formed blood vessels or lymph vessels, have potentially life threatening and emotional effects that can often be corrected by steroid therapy, laser treatment, and surgical removal.
Generally, steroid therapy, a non-surgical treatment, is only used to treat hemangiomas because their location may cause complications that must be treated immediately. For instance, hemangiomas appears in areas such as the head, neck, cheek, eyes, and nose; these are all locations which may cause blindness, airway blockage, or cardiac failure. According to the Vascular Birthmark Foundation, “Hemangiomas can grow for up to 18 months and then begin a long slow regression...
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The Birthmark is in the shape of a hand because it is the work of God, done by God's own hand and will.
Nordqvist, Christian. “What is Cosmetic Surgery? What is Plastic Surgery?” Medical News Today. 30 June 2009. Web. 13 March 2014.
In today society, beauty in a woman seems to be the measured of her size, or the structure of her nose and lips. Plastic surgery has become a popular procedure for people, mostly for women, to fit in social class, race, or beauty. Most women are insecure about their body or face, wondering if they are perfect enough for the society to call the beautiful; this is when cosmetic surgery comes in. To fix what “needed” to be fixed. To begin with, there is no point in cutting your face or your body to add or remove something most people call ugly. “The Pitfalls of Plastic Surgery” explored the desire of human to become beyond perfection by the undergoing plastic surgery. The author, Camille Pagalia, took a look how now days how Americans are so obsessed
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In conclusion the theme of The Birthmark is expressed within the story. “The crimson hand expressed the ineludible gripe in which mortality clutches the highest and purest of earthly mould, degrading them into kindred with the lowest, and even with the very brutes, like whom their visible frames return to dust. In this manner, selecting it as the symbol of his wife's liability to sin, sorrow, decay, and death.” (Hawthorne 359). This story tells a lot about human nature, the most important one is that human beings are naturally imperfect creatures, trying
Over the last 50 years, the esthetics industry has grown tremendously. At one time, it was all about luxury and pampering the client with services that make them feel relaxed. Now, it also implements specific skin treatments that target skin conditions, such
& nbsp; The Mark of Ugliness In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Birthmark, there is indeed a representation of Although the other underlying personality is not represented within himself, it is rather portrayed through his assistant Aminadab. Since Aylmer is lacking so much within himself, he is unable to appreciate his wife even though she was dying. Basically, if Aylmer had the sensibility of Aminadab, he could have realized how beautiful she was even with her birthmark. During
Written in 1843, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “The Birthmark,” may be interpreted as a metaphorical representation of disability. The plot revolves around Aylmer, an alchemist, and his quest to rid Georgiana, his wife, of a facial birthmark. Aylmer’s crusade for the ideal female form ultimately results in Georgiana’s unfortunate demise. In the narrative, a tiny handprint-shaped birthmark graces Georgiana’s otherwise beautiful left cheek. Because it limits her activities and results in derogative treatment, the birthmark symbolizes disability and thus Georgiana represents the disabled. Meanwhile, Aylmer illustrates pro-normative, ableist society. That attached scene in particular manages to represent Georgiana’s fatal shift in perspective,
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The first known use of dermatology was established in 1819 and only in the 1930’s did its practice become more widely accomplished, known and sought after. (“Dermatology” 2014) Since then it has extensively evolved and changed and been able to provide services for women and men around the world. Originally being a part of the medicine field can now be considered a division of the beauty industry due to availability of services and treatments for aesthetic, pampering purposes, rather than just originally founded for medical issues of resolving skin disorders and diseases. Dermatology being defined as ‘a branch of medicine dealing with the skin, its structure, functions and diseases’ (“Dermatology” 2014) now offers many professions one being a dermatologist, whic...
Every relationship is different. Weather one may be in a relationship with a boy, or just a friend, it is different. Even though they are different, the characters in “The Birthmark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne and “IND AFF” by Fay Weldon are in similar relationships. That is, the male is dominant over the female, and the woman thinks the man is her knight in shining armor. In the beginning of “IND AFF” the unnamed woman thinks her professor, Peter, who she is having an affair with, is her ticket to creating a good thesis and higher standings. Similarly, in “The Birthmark,” Georgiana thinks her husband is her ticket to flawless beauty because he tells her he will remove her birthmark. Obviously, this is not how relationships operate in today’s society. These two relationships compare and contrast with each other as well as with relationships in today’s day-and-age.
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There are many types of birth defects anomalies such as lip/cleft palate, birth marks, and Congenital Atresia. Common birth defects is lip/cleft palate which about one of 750 babies in US will have this defects. The treatment for this defects will begin after birth or after discharge from hospital. Bilateral cleft is the most complex to repair because they need more medical and surgical specialist to perform the surgery. If there is a larger defect, they need to perform the pharyngeal flap, dental work, and bone grafting. Birth marks also can be removed by plastic surgery which is depends on types of birth mark. Hemangiomas is a type