Plastic Surgery Research Paper

Cosmetic or plastic surgery is the alteration or change of a structure of the body through a medical procedure. In today’s society, many teenagers struggle with the effects from society. A lot of teenagers go through changes in their body types and structures when they reach puberty. The top three most popular procedures that teenagers undergo consist of Rhinoplasty, Ear surgery, and reduction mammoplasty (McGrath). Rhinoplasty is commonly called a nose job, and reduction mammoplasty is also known as breast reduction surgery. The surgeries being done vary between boys and girls and all ages from thirteen to nineteen. Although some plastic surgery being done to teenagers is justified, most find a lot of it controversial. Examples of justified
An example of how bullying causes plastic surgery is the New York Daily News article, when a six year old from Utah had a procedure done because he was being bullied by classmates due to his abnormal and larger sized ears (Stumpf). In the article, the parents of the child who got the procedure on his ears to make them smaller said “he just gets down on himself and he thinks, “I’m not good enough” (Stumpf). A child should never have to feel that way. His parents decided to let their child have the procedure done because they were afraid that the extreme torment from the bullies would cause damage to their son due to his young age (Stumpf). Steven J. Pearlman, MD states “It’s harder to make friends so they become socially stunted. They are also perceived as less intelligent by peers and even some adults” (Stumpf). In this quote, Pearlman is describing the young children who have an abnormal body feature and how they end up later on in their life. He says if they have an abnormal feature and they end up getting surgery on it, there is a better chance that they won’t be made fun of for the rest of their young adulthood. Even though Pearlman believes some children should undergo the surgery, there are other doctors who believe that the surgery isn’t the right method to stop bullying. Dr. Karen Caraballo believes that “some children need to learn and eventually accept and grow an appreciation for the different and unique features that they have (Stumpf). Caraballo also believes that the parent and child involved can work through the bullying that is being done to the child because of their different physical features. Bullying is a main reason why many children get plastic surgery. With more and more people against bullying, this reason should start to decrease as to why