Patients are occasionally referred to a psychiatrist with the primary complaint of a cosmetic defect in their appearance, and in a previous communication 45 such patients, dissatisfied with their noses and requesting cosmetic surgery, were studied (Hay, in press).
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G. G. Hay (1970) studied this question.
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