You can't control everything': the rise in plastic surgeons asked to create AI face'

Clients increasingly arrive at cosmetic surgery offices with AI-altered photos and expectations that surgical results can match AI pixel-level perfection. Surgeons report that AI tools used to generate “ideal faces” lead to briefs demanding flawless skin, sharply sculpted cheekbones, refined noses, and near-perfect symmetry. Surgeons say these standards are often too time consuming, prohibitively expensive, and physically unattainable. AI images can strongly shape and reinforce aesthetic ideals before patients ever consult a surgeon, making expectations feel “wired in.” Surgeons emphasize that outcomes are not guaranteed because healing, aging, and achievable changes vary between individuals, and surgery cannot replicate microscopic precision.

"Clients have started coming to her office with photos of themselves beautified by AI and a false expectation that those results are achievable with surgery. She is also the president of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, and says many colleagues are having similar experiences. I can only predict an increase, given the rate AI has been incorporated into every aspect of life, she said."

"People using AI chatbots to generate their ideal faces are increasingly arriving at surgeons' offices with briefs demanding flawless skin, sharply sculpted cheekbones, refined noses and near-perfect symmetry standards that are too time consuming, prohibitively expensive and, in many cases, physically unattainable. While AI can control every single pixel, surgery certainly doesn't work on that microscopic detailed level, according Dr Alex Karidis, a surgeon based in west London."

"Nugent said: Once you see an image, it's wired into you. Karidis agreed, describing AI images as being seared into patients' minds, and said colleagues had recently been inundated with them. Surgeons are also keen to emphasise that cosmetic surgery outcomes are far from guaranteed. The patient has to understand that there is human variation in how they heal, how they age and what can be done said Nugent."

"I say to patients beforehand: it's not limitless what I can do in surgery. Neither of us control everything. Alex Karidis says cosmetic surgery cannot replicate the microscopic precision or f"

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