Professor Denine Lutz
English 10, Section 91
23 April 2013
Plastic Surgery
“The Right to Be Beautiful?” These days, people are growing up surrounded by media portrayals of the perfect face and body. It’s in the advertisements, on television, movies and just about everywhere. Presently, society has frame set the picture of women’s beauty along with a pretty face, perfect skin, and slender frame as a rail thin super model. However, nobody’s perfect, and that is just a fact; not everyone is blessed with perfect face such as nice jaw line, cute nose and bright round eyes as well as perfect body such as perky breasts, long-skinny leg, flat tummy and more. Furthermore, with all these figures of beauty projected all over, people are convinced to believe that to be beautiful, one must look identical. For this reason, every year there are millions of male and female that not happy with their current appearance and body undergo plastic surgery. Modern plastic surgeons are capable to change or “fix” a lot of unwanted problem areas and alter almost any aspect of physical appearance desired. There are a lot of choices out there, from facial features to body shape. For example face lifts, eye lifts, nose job, breast augmentation, liposuction, tummy tucks and others more. Plastic surgery is not new although popularity has dramatically increasing in the past few years. In fact, great majority of people need not have cosmetic surgery, but because society has made out the perfect model and everyone is trying to be just like that. Before undergoing any of plastic surgery, there are some pros and cons of plastic surgery that people need to beware of. Moreover, plastic surgery is not a good decision, because it is surgery after all, there is always the possibility that complications can rise. There are three major pros that have millions of male and female fascinated with plastic surgery. And these three major pros are building one’s
References: Fig.1. Health Quality and Complaints Commission; Great expectations: A spotlight report on complaints about cosmetic surgical and medical procedures in Queensland; http://www.hqcc.qld.gov.au/Resources/Documents/Reports/Report-spotlight-great-expectations-cosmetic-surgical-and-medical-procedures-8-Apr-2013.pdf April 2013. Web Fig. 2. Health Quality and Complaints Commission; Great expectations: A spotlight report on complaints about cosmetic surgical and medical procedures in Queensland; http://www.hqcc.qld.gov.au/Resources/Documents/Reports/Report-spotlight-great-expectations-cosmetic-surgical-and-medical-procedures-8-Apr-2013.pdf April 2013. Web Table 2. Health Quality and Complaints Commission; Great expectations: A spotlight report on complaints about cosmetic surgical and medical procedures in Queensland; http://www.hqcc.qld.gov.au/Resources/Documents/Reports/Report-spotlight-great-expectations-cosmetic-surgical-and-medical-procedures-8-Apr-2013.pdf April 2013. Web