Made to Smile: Dimpleplasty Stories

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts describe dimpleplasty, the minor operation that creates a cheek or chin dimple. Writers describe why they wanted one — a childhood dimple lost to weight change, a cultural beauty standard, a sibling's face, a decade of thinking about it — and how they found a surgeon in a field with uneven regulation. There is the half hour itself, done awake under local anaesthetic, and the strange healing fortnight that follows: the permanent-looking dimple that is only swelling, the pucker at rest that terrifies people at day four, the eating and speaking adjustments. Writers describe the settling, usually somewhere between two and six months, and report results plainly. Later chapters cover reconstructive and reversal work, clinicians' perspectives on patient selection, and the honest cases where the dimple faded entirely, drifted out of position, or was regretted.

Who it's for

For anyone considering dimple surgery, patients in the alarming first fortnight, and readers who want an unvarnished account of a procedure marketed as trivial.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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