Okay, short of watching an actual plastic surgery in progress, this is about as close as you can get – and, if a picture is worth 1,000 words, a 3-D animation is worth at least 10 times that. If you’re one of those people who faint when you get a flu shot, you might want to skip these little animations. But if you are insatiably curious about plastic surgery – you’re going to love this!

The animations come from Understand.com’s library of computer animations. Plastic surgeons love these state-of-the-art presentations because they save the docs time, and they communicate so much more than words alone. With these innovative multimedia tools, you can view the step-by-step technique for just about every procedure, from a chemical peel and laser hair removal to an aerola-incision breast implant.