[The by law required assessment by a child psychiatrist before cosmetic interventions; retrospective file research].

CONCLUSION: Mainly patients who underwent otoplasty and with an obvious deviation from appearance that caused suffering were evaluated at the University Hospital, Free University Brussels four years after implementation of the law on cosmetic interventions. No child psychiatric contraindications for the cosmetic intervention were found in this population. It seems more useful to nuance this legislation and ask more specific for advice from a child psychiatrist in patients with risk factors. The identification of patients with a possible (child) psychiatric disorder remains of utmost importance. PMID: 32207129 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Tijdschrift voor Psychiatrie - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Tags: Tijdschr Psychiatr Source Type: research