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Another reason why teenagers should stay away from cosmetic surgery is because it is a very costly expenditure. Many people are drawn into the lure of looking like unrealistic billboard model with no concern of the price, which could ultimately be his or her life. What does it cost to be beautiful in todays society? It seems as if there is a cosmetic surgery procedure for everyone out there. There is rhinoplasty for a person with a nose like Squidard, an otoplasty done for one with ears that resemble Dumbo, cheek implants, thigh lifts, male breast reductions, eyelid surgeries, and the list goes on. Times magazine reports that 34,000,000 teenagers do not like their chins, 70,000,000 teenagers dislike their noses, and 6,000,000 do not like their ears. The price costs on these surgeries as not only financial, but also emotional, especially in a young teenager. Your Plastic Surgery Guide states that the average abdominoplasty, tummy tuck, can cost as high as $5,130 and rhinoplasty, a nose job, buttock augmentation or a breast augmentation can cost an average of $4,052 for each procedure to be preformed. The cosmetic surgery world is a rapidly growing business, adding new operations each year. It is said that, “half of patients who have undergone cosmetic surgery have had numerous procedures done in less than one year afterwards” (Alderman). Cosmetic surgery has become very addictive. It can be compared to gambling. It is hard to stop once one have already begun and is a fast way to loose money. An emotional cost comes with cosmetic surgery as well. It is said by Kids Health that teenagers have become dissatisfied with their results on multiple occasions, and results in another surgery to fix the previous one, and another to fix that one, and the cycle repeats. Many people are drawn into the lure of looking like unrealistic billboard model with no concern of the price, which could be their life. With the prices as high as they are, the high standards of beauty, and

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