Personality Traits: "The Big Five" and "the Dark Triad".

Despite decades of literature, presently there are insufficient high-quality screening tools, preoperative measures, and postoperative comparisons of patients with "Big Five" personality disorders, or those with high expression of "Dark Triad" traits. Given modern advances in the conceptualization and diagnosis of these psychopathologies, there is significant patient and provider benefit to be gained in reevaluating the risks and benefits of cosmetic procedures in this population.