How many people do you know that feel overly confident with their body? No one is completely happy with their appearance. Whether it’s their butt, breasts, nose, weight, or even wrinkles, everyone has something they would like to have fixed. Cosmetic surgery is a completely safe route to take to get the body one would like, and as long as you do research prior to a procedure, it is safe.-+ Many people have only heard negative stories about cosmetic surgery because can be found more interesting. The social stigma of cosmetic surgery should be removed because it is actually a great way for people who are not confident with their body, have been injured, and/or were born with birth defects to change, restore, or enhance their features.
Reconstructive surgery is a medically intended procedure that generally treats birth defects or the side effects from a disease or injury (“Plastic Surgery”). There are many instances that can invoke the need for reconstructive plastic surgery. For example, one can improve their skin from a visible scar, burn, or skin disease. One can also reconstruct any malformed body parts that have been caused by injury, surgery, disease, or a birth defect (“Cosmetic Surgery”). Women who have battled breast cancer that resulted in a mastectomy often get breast implants to make it seem like nothing happened (“Plastic Surgery”). Many parents whose child has ears that protrude will often have them receive a surgery to have them reshaped closer to the skull (Lusted 28). On March 17, 2003 Patrick from southern Illinois got into a motorcycle crash that resulted in his nose, upper lip, and part of his left cheek hanging off of his face. He quickly got to the hospital and received over three thousand stitches ...
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...id that by changing ones outside appearance does not mess with the genetics inside of the person, therefore the genes will still be passed down to following generations (“Plastic Surgery”).
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made: this was the cut that could forever change a life; with this laceration, cosmetic surgery was born. A British Sailor, Walter Yeo, suffered severe facial deformations while serving in World War I. Skin grafts were harvested from undamaged areas of Yeo’s body, and were later used to treat Yeo’s loss of his upper and lower eyelids. In 1917, Yeo was treated by Sir Harold Gillies, the well-known father of plastic surgery (Murano). Yeo was the beginning of it all. Later, in 1962, Timmie Jean Lindsey
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when having cosmetic surgery. The rates of cosmetic surgery among teens has soared and continues to increase. People state that an acclaimed sense of self-esteem and confidence can be achieved from having cosmetic surgery because then they “fit in,” but is that really a good enough reason for teens to put their body under the knife? Teens should not be allowed to undergo such an extensive procedure with such feeble intentions. Cosmetic surgery, also known as Aesthetic plastic surgery, consists of
different approaches of cosmetic surgery and its effects on people. Therefore leading to the significance of self-esteem to feel good about their self in any shape of form. Cosmetic surgery formally known as Plastic Surgery is “A procedure performed to improve the appearance of many parts of the body
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Frist of all, my topic for this essay is “Cosmetic Surgery”. It is a hot issue all over the world. In the past few years the abuse of ethical principles in Cosmetic Surgery has become increasingly noticeable. A lot of people maintain or change their appearance, body with plastic surgeries. According to statistics released today by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), “14.6 million cosmetic plastic surgery procedures, including both minimally-invasive and surgical, were performed
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