Plastic Surgery Diminishes Overall Health
As there are many advancements in the medical field, a perfect body like many celebrities are attainable with a couple thousand dollars through plastic surgery. However, how many of those people feel that their life has changed for the better? Society is being reformed to fit the standards media poses as it plays a huge role in many lives) Media is not the only problem people face every day. It includes judgment of coworkers, bullying, religion and environmental pressure. These problems cause people to look to plastic surgery for answers. All the same, plastic surgery for cosmetic purposes should be eliminated, as it poses more detrimental aspects to one 's overall health than is beneficial.
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The pressure that involves attaining the "ideal" body is not because of their own desire, but what their environment or society desires. It mentally causes breakdown to occur within teenagers, only causing harm to their overall health; something they are trying not to achieve when going through plastic surgery. In the world we live in today, adolescents are overexposed to many celebrities, through the means of magazines, blogs, social media, and news. Due to this over exposure there is an extensive celebrity influence on the youth, causing them to only see what they do not have. In 2013, the English National Health Service reports, "60 per cent of girls aged 11 to 16 saying they felt some pressure to look the way celebrities do" (Braun B7). At ages 11 to 16, girls need to be giving importance to other aspects in their life such as talents, academics, or athletics. Instead, the influence of today 's celebrities makes girls only worry about their appearance, which should not be their number one priority all the time. …show more content…
This is especially true with cosmetic surgeries. One of the bigger surgeries when it comes to cosmetics is breast augmentation; though thousands of women go through this surgery, no one takes into consideration the side effects that come with it. As stated by National Cancer Institute, women who receive breast implants, "twice as likely to die from brain cancer, three times as likely to die from lung cancer, and four times as likely to commit suicide, as compared to other plastic surgery patients" (Willhate 15). Due to recent study, it shows how breast implants negatively impact the body, with its links to cancer. However, these are one of the few problems that women who receive breast implants have. Many women get breast implants to improve their overall appearance and boost their self-esteem but fail to realize how it will affect them physically, in the long run. Along with breast augmentation, liposuction is another risky surgery. The risk of death under liposuction is determined by the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery which includes, "poor patient health, excessive fat removal, too much fluid and local anesthesia used during the procedure, performing multiple procedures along with liposuction in a single surgical session, especially under
Societal constructs of bodily perfection have a massive influence on both genders and on all ages. If you look at any magazine, you will see women constantly being compared to each other, whether it is in the “who wore it better” section or in the “do’s and don’ts” part of the magazine, comparing body images and overall appearances. All parts of the media that encompasses our daily lives are especially dangerous for young and impressionable teens because they see people being torn down for trying to express themselves, and are thus taught to not only don’t look like “don’ts”, but also look like the “do’s”. This is dangerous in that women in the magazine set very high standards that teens want to emulate, no matter the cost to themselves or their health. Celebrities have the benefit of media to make them appear perfect: Photoshop and makeup artists conceal the imperfections that are often too apparent to the naked eye. Viewing celebrities as exhibiting the ideal look or as idols will, in most cases, only damage the confidence of both young teens, and adults, and warp the reality of what true “beauty” really is. It makes teens never feel truly content with themselves because they will be aiming for an ideal that is physically impossible to attain and one that doesn’t exist in the real
In today society, beauty in a woman seems to be the measured of her size, or the structure of her nose and lips. Plastic surgery has become a popular procedure for people, mostly for women, to fit in social class, race, or beauty. Most women are insecure about their body or face, wondering if they are perfect enough for the society to call the beautiful; this is when cosmetic surgery comes in. To fix what “needed” to be fixed. To begin with, there is no point in cutting your face or your body to add or remove something most people call ugly. “The Pitfalls of Plastic Surgery” explored the desire of human to become beyond perfection by the undergoing plastic surgery. The author, Camille Pagalia, took a look how now days how Americans are so obsessed
Does having plastic surgery actually make the patients feel better? Studies have shown that people report having increased fulfillment with the body part they had the work done on. The short-term effects were that people felt better about themselves. However, results are more mixed for whether plastic surgery boosts the patients` long-term self-esteem and their quality of life in the long run. A study done by David Sarwer, another psychologist, found that after receiving cosmetic surgery, “as many as 90% of patients report satisfaction with their surgical outcome....
The media has had an increasingly destructive effect on young people who are becoming worryingly obsessed with their body image. The media is saturated in sexual imagery in which young people have to face every day. The sheer volume of sexual imagery in the media today has resulted in the vast majority of young people to become hooked on looking as near to perfection everyday by using the latest products and buying the latest fashions. This used to be enough but lately the next step to achieving perfection is cosmetic surgery. Everyone wants to look attractive, especially teenagers who are not only put under massive strain to succeed but to look beautiful and climb the ranks of the social ladder, and it seems that the only way to achieve the much desired beauty is to turn to drastic measures.
My research paper will explain the benefits of plastic surgery. People often have a lot of doubt when it comes to plastic surgery, but it can actually have many positive attributes, both physically and psychologically such as improving one’s health, lifestyle, and confidence
One of the leading reasons as to why cosmetic surgery should be banned is because of some serious, and neglected, risks that patients may encounter when put under the knife. To be more precise, a procedure that one may see to be harmless and basic may carry out just as many negative affects as a serious one. In “Clinical Risk,” Mercer (2009) states, "All cosmetic treatments are medical interventions, and every medical intervention has a complication and failure rate”. The paraffin being injected in the faces of people who get Botox done, for instance, may overtime spread into unwanted places that would cause the sagging of the face, contrary to the whole purpose of this procedure. Sometimes the negative effects are not seen immediately, but over the course of life become more apparent. When one has a more serious surgery the risks obviously boost drastically. A vast amount of blood loss is also a major threat in such operations. One may simply die of excessive bleeding even after the surgery is done, meaning that you are not only in danger when under the knife, but even when you are finished from the procedure (whether it be a success or not). Moreover, statistics prove that most people that even though a high number of people get surgery done, a higher percentage get a second one of those same surgical operations done later on due to not being satisfied with the results the first time around. It is this factor that aids and results in the unhealthy obsession.
If a teenager or pre-teen is focused on particular celebrities and their goal is too look like them, it is not difficult to slip into acting like them as well, or at least being influenced by their behavior and perceived attitudes. The media abounds with bad examples of celebrity behavior, from Justin Bibber driving recklessly to Miley Cyrus parading around scantily clothed, and although every celebrity is not a terrible role model, a disproportionate amount of them can be found to have shaky morals and seem to have let the attention that they receive affect their behavior. In addition, the perfect bodies that most of them display are not realistic and in some cases not even naturally attainable, thanks to the modern tools of plastic surgery, augmentations, liposuction, and other cosmetic surgeries. The media too contributes to the unreal portrayal of models and famous people by using airbrushing on pictures and other editing that lead regular people to compare their bodies to images that are not even humanly possible. The Barbie-like models that girls compare themselves to and the ripped and muscled men that boys compare their bodies to are often completely unnatural and the people who have somehow attained them are,
To many, the notion of a teenager undergoing plastic surgery is appalling and unbelievable. For others, such as eleven-year-old Julia, a nose job was able to help her lead a happier and more normal life. To eighteen-year-old Kristen a breast augmentation is a traditional rite of passage of the family. She claims that she “just wanted to look normal,” and that after surgery, she does. (Sweeny, 2009) In these types of cases, cosmetic surgery can be beneficial to the confidence of teenagers in what Ann Kearney-Cooke calls “an epidemic of low self-esteem among girls.” (Sweeney, 2009) Whether it is a physical deformity, such as protruding ears, or simply a lack of something that other peers have, such as large breasts, cosmetic surgery can help teenagers cope with self-worth in a world where beauty is ridiculously selective. However, aside from the confidence-boosting possibilities resulting from teen cosmetic surgery, there are many reasons why it should not be taken lightly for an adolescent. Although cosmetic surgery can potentially be beneficial, there are also many extreme risks for teenagers, including medical complications and in some rare cases death, and thus should be solely a last resort after meticulous analysis for serious cases. Furthermore, neither the adolescent brain nor body is even fully developed.
Clearly, there is a necessity to curtail the cases of teenagers suffering from body image pressures immediately (Kennedy, 2010). If there are no pressures, there will be surely no obsession with their appearance and there will be certainly no more risks of young women’s health and rise in serious eating disorders.
There are many Cons’ that are associated with cosmetic and reconstructive surgery. Some procedures can leave a person scared for life physically or even mentally. For instance, “Liposuction is the removal of fat cells to produce smoother contours, if to much fat and fluid is removed at once the patient could go into shock, bleed internally, or worst of all die.” (Margie Parent 2002) After some cosmetic and reconstructive surgeries sometimes it is found very common for a person to have a hard time adjust...
They may not like the way they look in the mirror, so they want to look like someone else. Watching media and the environment all influence body image problems. When some teenagers see their friends around them and all the supermodels and stars on TV with their perfect bodies and skin, teenagers want to look like them. Often adolescents are associated with extreme behaviors and are engaging in practices that could be called dangerous.
Typically when having surgery done, people will weigh the risk of the surgery against against the suspected health improvement. However, when having cosmetic surgery done, there is no health improvement. There is actually no improvement at all except to the patients mental views on themselves. There are many risks when having plastic surgery that are often overlooked by patients because the surgery is being preformed by doctors. Doctors aren’t here to harm us, but heal us, so having a certified person in a white coat cut you open to put implants in you, could’t be harmful could it? Unfortunately, it easily could. “It’s well known that breast implants of many types can cause burning pain, loss of sensation, hardening of breast tissue and serious infection. One woman who suffered complications from implants has filed a petition with the Scottish government urging adoption of such a ban. An argument could even be made that aesthetic surgery violates the Hippocratic oath [taken by medical doctors] because it carries a potential for harm without curing or preventing disease.”(Edmonds) A French company named Poly Implant Prosthese (PIP) is known for having faulty breast implants. The PIP’s are known to rupture more easily and are full of an industrial grade of silicone that was never intended for use in the medical
Teenagers constantly worry about their body image. Magazines, newspapers, and television don’t exactly help to boost their confidence. The portrayal of stick thin woman and body building men forces teens to believe they need to achieve that “perfect” body and look. The biggest issue of these images being broadcasted to teens is the effects that the images have on them. Teenagers who obsess over their body image can experience stress due to trying to impress others, develop an eating disorder, and neglect, and even jeopardize, important aspects of their lives when they focus too much on their body image.
As cosmetic surgery can improve the overall mental and physical well being of a person, and increasing self confidence and self esteem. The world of cosmetic surgery is portrayed through media and our favourite celebrities, showing men and women that it is okay to change the body or face they came into the world with. Cosmetic surgery will continue to increase in the number of individuals that receive surgery to fix their
There are so many good and bad things that can come from getting plastic surgery. This essay will tell you all the effects, good and bad, that come from getting plastic surgery. The main reasons that people get plastic surgery are Medical, Personal, and at times for career enhancement. Though we all should be satisfied with our looks we aren’t so one way of going about fixing it is by plastic surgery. Some people choose this method sometimes as a way of medical recommendation. Another way is for personal use and just to feel better about them. The last effect of plastic surgery is in some ways to advance in the career path you have chosen. There are so many reasons why people choose this but this essay will focus