“…Surgeons' ratings of abnormality correlate only modestly with patients' subjective sense of abnormality, 9 and, perhaps because subjective and observer-rated abnormality are largely unrelated, the psychosocial impact of a problem of appearance and, indeed, the psychosocial outcome of surgery are unrelated to the degree of observer-rated abnormality. [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17] If patients with the greatest need are to be offered surgery, abnormality should be considered not in isolation but jointly with other relevant factors including quality of life and emotional state. Our finding that none of the qualityof-life or emotional variables were significant in the main analysis suggested that this is not currently the case.…”