Teenage Girls And Plastic Surgery

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"Supporters of allowing teenage girls to undergo cosmetic surgery say: Plastic Surgery can significiantly boost a teenage girl's self-esteem. Plastic surgeons rigorously screen all potential teenage patients for emotional maturity. Any attempt to ban plastic surgery for teenagers would likely be ineffective."

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"Critics of allowing teenage girls to undergo cosmetic surgery say: Many teenage girls want plastic surgery for all of the wrong reasons: For example, they may feel pressure to live up to the unrealistic standard of female beauty promoted by U.S. popular culture. Teenagers also do not carefully consider the health risks that plastic surgery poses.

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"The term 'plastic surgery' refers to surgical procedures that reshape and re-form human tissue. While plastic surgery is often used for reconstructive purposes--for example, to correct a cleft palate, a birth defect that causes a gap to form between one's nose and upper lip--it is most commonly performed for aesthetic purposes.

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"Also known as cosmetic surgery, aesthetic plastic surgery includes relatively common operations, from breast implants and liposuction, to more exotic procedures, such as buttock lifts and cheek implants."

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"In the popular consciousness, plastic surgery is most commmonly associated with Hollywood celebrities. Magazines such as US Weekly and People often point out which singers, actors and socialities have undergone cosmetic surgery. But Americans from all parts of the country undergo cosmetic sugery"

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"Nearly 1.8 million Americans had cosmetic surgery in 2008 alone."

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"The age group that underwent the most plastic-surgery procedures in 2008 was Americans agred 35 to 50; nearly 750,000 cosmetic surgery patients fell within those age boundaries"

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"However, roughly 43,000 plastic-surgery procedures were perfomed on Americans aged 18 or younger last year"

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"Indeed there is a gorwing concern about the number of teenagers who choose to go "under the knife" to correct a surgery.

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"Observers say that teenage girls are far more likely than boys to feel physically inadequate, and nine out of 10 plastic-surgery recipiants are female.

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"Supporters say that teenage girls could enjoy a huge boost in their self-esteem by undegoing plastic surgery."

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"Often, girls who believe their appearence is flawed become socialyl withdrawn and deeply unhappy; plastic surgery can help thoes girls to break out of their shells, proponents say."

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"Besides, plastic surgeons screen all potential patients to determine whether they are emotionally mature enought to hhandle the procedure they request, supporters note.

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"Critics, meanwhile, argue that allowing teenage girls to alter their bodies with plastic surgery communicates that looks are more important than personality. That is an extremely harmful message to send, considering the unrealisticly high standard of beauty one encounters in the U.S. everyday."

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"During the first decande of the 21st century, the number of plastic surgeries performed on Americans aged 18 and younger has flucuated significantly."

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"The toal number of operations peaked in 2003, when 66,142 surgeries were performed on Americans aged 18 and younger, and reached a low in 2006 when 40,463 surgeries."

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"On average, 50,066, cosmetic-surgery procedures have been performed each year on Americans aged 18 and younger during the current decade."

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"Anecdotally, many surgeons report that enthusiam for plastic surgery has increased steadily among teenagers since the late 1990's. Stephen Greenberg, a New York based surery and the author of A Little Nip, a Little Tuck: An Insiders Guide to Cosmetic Enhancement, says "I've seen an increase in teens have plastic surgery, and certainyly for graduation."

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"Greenberg is refering to the reportedly growing trend of parents allowing their daughters to undergo plastic surgery procedures to a reward for graduating high school."

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"Contributing to the trend, observers say, is a widespread cultural obsession with beauty partiuclarly female physical attractiveness."

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