By Isaaq Tomkins
Publication Date: 2026-05-23 11:00:00
Plastic surgeons are increasingly concerned about the rise of the “AI face” as more and more clients come into their practices with unrealistic AI-generated ideas of what they want to look like.
Dr. Nora Nugent, a plastic surgeon from Tunbridge Wells, has seen this first hand. Customers are increasingly coming into their office with photos of themselves enhanced by AI, incorrectly assuming that these results can be achieved with surgery. She is also president of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons and says many colleagues have similar experiences.
“I can only predict an increase given how quickly AI is being integrated into every aspect of life,” she said.
People who use AI chatbots to generate their ideal faces are increasingly showing up at doctors’ offices wearing briefs that demand flawless skin, sharply shaped cheekbones, fine noses and near-perfect symmetry – standards that are too time-consuming, prohibitively expensive and, in many cases, physically taxing.
