Life After Plastic Surgery

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People today are taking the initiative to improve their daily lives. They are working out, eating healthy, and trying to do activities that will relieve stress and make their lives better. One of the initiative that the people take to improve their lives which is getting cosmetic surgery. “In 2013 there were more than over 15.1 million cosmetic surgery procedures, this is an 3% increase from 2012”(2013 Plastic Surgery Statistics, n.d., p. 5). The number of procedure is increasing as time passes, and there are more types of surgery that people can get, for various parts of their body. Cosmetic surgery is increasing due to physical benefits, and psychological benefits that happen post surgery.
To begin with, a person can have physical benefits
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One of the test was done by, “Dr. Michael Reilly, who asked people to rate pictures of women post op of getting cosmetic surgery, he also made them guess the woman 's personality based off of the photo. Reilly found out that people constantly rated the post-op photo’s as higher on things like social skills”(Park, n.d., p. 1 ).
Dr. Michael Reilly is a plastic surgeon from Georgetown University, and he wanted to know what others think about the person after plastic surgery, so he conducted the a test. He showed before and after pictures of the patients to various participants and discovered that the way a person can look can help others determine if they are social. Social skill help people to communicate, and allow a person to express themselves. If a person is shy, and they are afraid to talk to others, they will often be left alone by others, if the socially awkward person’s body language portrays an image that he/she is social, and he/she looks confident, then others will approach the person, and start a conversation. When others approach
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These are just three way the person can benefit from physical changes through cosmetic surgery. The patients that fix their flaws through cosmetic surgery have many benefits. Such benefits improve the person’s physical and psychological attributes. People are interested in getting plastic surgery is because of their flaws stop them from pursuing something that they want, so they are more hesitant, and hold back when they do not fix their flaws. By fixing their flaws, people get rid of the excuses that stopped them from accomplishing goals, and post surgery the person gets the willpower to do what they want to

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