Cosmetic rehabilitation
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1Camouflage Therapy Clinic, San Francisco General Hospital, Alta-Bates Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Dermatology Nursing
|March 27, 2002
Abstract:
Appearance is one of the most powerful factors influencing social interactions with others. What patients with disfigurements experience from society on a daily basis is a very real stigma. Cosmetic rehabilitation is a system of cosmetic techniques devised for patients to use to assist themselves to cope constructively with the psychological and physical trauma of their disfigurements.
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