Well: Some Nose-Job Patients May Have Mental Illness

Wednesday, July 27, 2011 - 13:50 in Psychology & Sociology

About one in three people seeking rhinoplasty -- commonly called a nose job -- have signs of body dysmorphic disorder, a mental health condition in which a person has an unnatural preoccupation with slight or imagined defects in appearance.

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