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. 2016 Sep 15;4(9):e862.
doi: 10.1097/GOX.0000000000000833. eCollection 2016 Sep.

Quality of Life and Aesthetic Plastic Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Rodrigo Dreher  1 , Carolina Blaya  1 , Juliana L C Tenório  1 , Renato Saltz  1 , Pedro B Ely  1 , Ygor A Ferrão  1
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Quality of Life and Aesthetic Plastic Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Rodrigo Dreher et al. Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open. .

Abstract

Quality of life (QoL) is an important outcome in plastic surgery. However, authors use different scales to address this subject, making it difficult to compare the outcomes. To address this discrepancy, the aim of this study was to perform a systematic review and a random effect meta-analysis.

Methods: The search was made in two electronic databases (LILACS and PUBMED) using Mesh and non-Mesh terms related to aesthetic plastic surgery and QoL. We performed qualitative and quantitative analyses of the gathered data. We calculated a random effect meta-analysis with Der Simonian and Laird as variance estimator to compare pre- and postoperative QoL standardized mean difference. To check if there is difference between aesthetic surgeries, we compared reduction mammoplasty to other aesthetic surgeries.

Results: Of 1,715 identified, 20 studies were included in the qualitative analysis and 16 went through quantitative analysis. The random effect of all aesthetic surgeries shows that QoL improved after surgery. Reduction mammoplasty has improved QoL more than other procedures in social functioning and physical functioning domains.

Conclusions: Aesthetic plastic surgery increases QoL. Reduction mammoplasty seems to have better improvement compared with other aesthetic surgeries.

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Conflict of interest statement

Dr. Dreher received a governmental fund (CAPES) as a postgraduate Master of Science Degree student. None of the other authors have any financial disclosures. The Article Processing Charge was paid for by the authors.

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Systematic review flowchart.
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Forest plot of overall group. W, weight.
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Mental and physical summaries forest plot. W, weight.
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SF-36 domains forest plot. W, weight.
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