diff --git a/src/npc/surgery/surgeryDegradation.js b/src/npc/surgery/surgeryDegradation.js
index 5b3947927644098ee2e3bc4c90036c7f0bf9fa1d..db43f41c44cdddea8c7cacce4710bf27526513c0 100644
--- a/src/npc/surgery/surgeryDegradation.js
+++ b/src/npc/surgery/surgeryDegradation.js
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ App.UI.SlaveInteract.surgeryDegradation = function(slave) {
 
 	const _slaveDevotion = slave.devotion;
 
-	if (slave.health.condition < random(-100, -80) && !["body hair removal", "braces", "chem castrate", "eyebrow removal", "hair removal", "insemination", "removeBraces"].includes(V.surgeryType)) {
+	if (slave.health.condition < random(-100, -80) && !["body hair removal", "braces", "chem castrate", "eyebrow removal", "hair removal", "insemination", "removeBraces", "removeCosmeticBraces"].includes(V.surgeryType)) {
 		r.push(`${slave.slaveName} <span class="health.dec">has died from complications of surgery.</span>`);
 		removeSlave(slave);
 		V.nextLink = "Main";
@@ -5057,7 +5057,7 @@ slave.devotion -= 5;
 						r.push(`${He} is <span class="mediumorchid">even more hateful</span> of you afterward than ${he} would otherwise be. It must seem to ${him} that ${he}'s nothing more than a test subject to you.`);
 						slave.devotion -= 5;
 					}
-				} else if (!["braces", "insemination", "removeBraces"].includes(V.surgeryType)) {
+				} else if (!["braces", "insemination", "removeBraces", "removeCosmeticBraces"].includes(V.surgeryType)) {
 					if (slave.devotion > 50) {
 						r.push(`Since ${he}'s happy with the results, ${he}'s almost beside ${himself} with <span class="hotpink">gratitude,</span> and filled with <span class="mediumaquamarine">admiration</span> of your skill.`);
 						slave.devotion += 4;