Microsurgery

According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, in the year 2013 15.1 millions cosmetic procedures were performed. This is a total increase of 3% compared to year 2012 and the numbers have steadily been increasing. Minimally invasive procedures like botox injection and chemical peels are make up about 13.4 million of the procedures make up a majority of the procedures; however, about 1.6 million patience’s went under the knife to have highly invasive surgeries like beast augmentations,…

Nose is one of the most important parts of one’s facial features and overall personality. Many people feel dissatisfied with the shape of their nose and seek to have it altered to their desires. Rhinoplasty, also known as a nose job, is a common plastic surgery procedure that people undergo to change the shape of their nose. Even though nose surgery is carried out for medical reasons as well, it is usually done to get the desired aesthetics results such as a narrower nose, higher bridge, refined…

What To Expect After Cataract Surgery If your vision is clouded by cataracts, your eye doctor may recommend surgery at some point. Cataract surgery is a simple operation that removes the cloudy lenses from your eyes and replaces them with clear, artificial lenses. You may need the surgery on just one eye or on both, but your doctor may only do one eye at a time so your vision isn't compromised. Recovery from the surgery is usually fast and uneventful. Here's what you can expect. Immediately…

In truth, can we expect teenagers to make good decisions at this age? Adolescents are overwhelmed with grades, part-time jobs, and college applications. Bullying is one exploit no one should go through, especially at this age, but there are ways to stop it. Some say plastic surgery is one of the answers to bullying. In Source A, one in two teenagers, as young as thirteen, want plastic surgery to modify their appearances, but I do not believe that plastic surgery is the best solution to…

What is it about plastic surgery in America and plastic surgery in Korea that is so different that it has people talking all over the world? There are several factors that contribute to the epidemic growing in South Korea. The most important factor is that beauty is praised highly in Korea. It has everything to do with getting your first boyfriend, getting a job, getting married, and whether or not you bring honor to your family. According to ABC News reporters Juju Chang and Victoria Thompson,…

Two hundred years ago, Joseph Carpue, an English surgeon, used a patient’s skin to reconstruct his own nose for an experiment. He couldn’t image that work will bring a billion dollar global industry nowadays. From 1997 to 2013, the total number of cosmetic procedures increased by 580 percent, surgical procedures increased by 100 percent increased and nonsurgical procedures increased by 1,187 percent (Goertzen and Snibee). As the increasing number of people, especially teenage girls and famous…

As I dragged myself through the overcrowded, labyrinth of a subway, I finally admitted to my defeat and sat down on a bench. It was around eight o’clock and I was on my way home from the elementary school, taking my usual route through the subway station. I recall sitting on that bench for quite awhile, staring straight ahead at a huge, brightly lit advertising screen showing a before and after photo of a teen’s face that had undergone cosmetic surgery. I was distracted finally by a group of…

Flatland In Flatland when you are born, if you are a male, your shape decides your class. Isosceles triangles are the lowest class, then equilateral triangles, then squares and on and on always increasing in one side. So whatever class you’re born into that’s it, you cannot move into a higher class. Your class decides what jobs you preform and the education you receive. This is comparable to our culture because if you are born in to the lower class it is very hard to make it to the upper class.…

Plastic surgery is difficult to define specifically where it has a number of key characteristics, said by The Plastic Surgery Report. Surgical and non-surgical techniques are involved to reshape the normal structure the body. Consumers begin an innermost characteristic of plastic surgery to improve their self-esteem and appearance. As a result of medical need, other medical procedures are performed for therapeutic reasons. However, it is difficult to define the procedures performed for…

In this era, it seems like all people do is care about looks, especially with the rise in popularity ofsocial media and posting something or tweeting something every living second. My generation has become self-centered, egotistical, stuck-up, and vain and it needs to stop. We have this set image in our mind that the media has embedded in our minds of how we should look. This image of big breasts, big lips, big butt, big everything is making us lose a sense of reality and not lovingourselves…