Dangerous Effects Of Plastic Surgial Procedure

Plastic Surgery has become a wide topic in the United States. Plastic surgery is also known as, the reconstruction surgery that involves the restoration of a function to a damaged body part and the rebuilding of normal physical contours when parts of the body such as the nose, jaw, ears, or fingers are missing or disfigured. Throughout the years, plastic surgery has become a well-known surgery. The overall percentage on plastic surgery dropped by forty percent for the first time in a decade, total cosmetic procedures for women and men dropped below thirty-one thousand that was the lowest since the year od 2006. I believe that plastic surgery has very many cons towards it. There are many statistics that prove that plastic surgery can be a harmful idea to the body. However, there is also many positive thoughts when looking at the overall picture with plastic surgery. According to the article “Plastic Surgery” pit is often done for purely cosmetic reasons, to remove blemished, make unusual contours more normal, or improve self-esteem. Plastic surgery has caused many people to reach the cancer stage, or even pass away from coming in contact with plastic surgery. While many feels that plastic surgery has many benefits, it actually has many health risks.

In the article “Plastic Surgery Junkies: Why Are Perfectly Pretty Women Getting Hooked” by Sally Davis, explained how perfect women are getting changes done to their bodies when it's not needed. She describes how people today are obsessed with their flaws and what people think about them just to fit in. She also said that the main reason people felt the need to change themselves was because of the use of technology and the idea of looking like a model and celebrity.

Many people are now opting for plastic surgery because they are not happy with the way they look. Society has placed an increasing pressure on individuals to have the ideal look of a Barbie doll and her counterpart Ken. With this people are becoming heavily obsessed in looking flawless and ageless. There are many ways that we our bodies change, it could be from motherhood, weight gain and also unforeseeable events that can cause instant change.

Throughout history women specifically have felt the need to change their physical appearance in order to be accepted by societies beauty ideal. Social media has influenced women to believe that the word “beauty” defines the outward appearance according to the internets definition — “beauty is a combination of qualities, such as shape, color, or form, that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially the sight.” The definition itself allows anyone to mistakenly interpret the word “beauty” to determine whether or not the physical appearance is attractive enough to be considered beautiful. There are so many emphasis placed on a person’s physical appearance that makes one “beautiful" and “desirable" such the numbers on a scale or measurement, youth, color of skin, etc., but for those who do not meet the media’s ideal expectations are judged or ridiculed. Social media perceives a strong influence on women and what people define beauty to be, but realistically, humans are built to be compelled by enhanced images that are presented in advertisement that create an illusion and fantasy that people admire. The ideal physical appearance that is propagated tends to connect with numerous organizations whose profits promote cosmetics to illuminate facial structures, photoshopped images of famous figures seen in magazines or ads, and cosmetic procedures including liposuction, breast enlargement, and plastic surgery to attain the perfect body ideal. With the continuation of women believing in

Extreme Makeover mostly presents the working middle class Caucasian women in ages roughly twenty-five to forty-five who are the major target for cosmetic surgery and reasonably, a substantial piece of the audience. Instead of plainly displaying a progression in which the participant’s appearance is suddenly reformed, the show tells the narrative of a normal individual revolutionizing his or her life. Extreme Makeover brilliantly exploits participants’ transformation stories and thus normalizes the audience into thinking their external looks must parallel with their inner ideals. With this mindset, cosmetic surgery is less about becoming physically attractive and more about becoming the inner self: by expanding the space that were disagreed or considered

Cosmetic enhancement is the use of medical intervention to achieve a goal that is either socially created, or personally created (Adams, J., 2010). These body improvements are often done to improve one’s self-esteem, romantic life, or to fit within a social or cultural criteria (Adams, 2010). Cosmetic enhancement of the body and identity has always been a luxury in which only the rich and famous could afford, but within our forever developing consumerist society it is becoming more rapidly available to the general public. The consumerist society in which I speak of is the society which we live in today. This society has been the result of modern capitalism. Karl Marx explains that capitalism is the bourgeoisie versus the working class, where the bourgeoisie (which are the capitalists) exploit the working class (McLennan, G., McManus, R., & Spoonley, P., 2010). Marx believed that the capitalists were to blame for the rapidly increasing materialistic society, which has created lives to revolve around material things, and of course, money (McLennan, et al., 2010). This consumer society which is said to be by Marx born from capitalism is all about setting marks and deadlines, so that people will always feel the need to consume (Bauman, Z., 2001). Therefore with the development of consumerism people become more focused on their desires and wants, more than their actual needs. This is where the notion of body enhancements come in, as people became more self-absorbed which creates

Too much fascination with the body is problematic because embodied identity is not only about the body. Lasch 1980- Contemporary culture places fascination with the appearance of people and it is observed that this is causes narcissism among individuals. Gillian) […] More narcisistic forms of 'self-surveillance, including the 'tyranny' of idealised images and a 'fragmentation' of the body [...]” Specifically it is (Lasch 1979 p48 ) “... corporeal images of youth, beauty, health and fitness.” that are overrepresented. As a consequence body modification is advocated in order to achieve these ideological representations of the self. (Featherstone) Modification and enhancement help construct a beautiful appearance which Featherstone links to

Marketing campaigns have been structured to encourage cosmetic surgeries in ways that attempt to generate demands. For example since 1983 in the USA, the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (ASPRS) has attempted to expand its services of cosmetic surgery through a marketing campaign of press release that showed pre and post operative pictures as well as educational brochures (Gillespie 1997, p.76). In addition to that since costumers don't decide to undergo surgical procedure over night, providers need to keep a high profile by increasing advertisements and awareness through women magazines, local news papers and other types of communication (Gillespie 1997, p.76). Cosmetic surgery, which aims to improve individual’s body physique, encourages women to see imperfections as illness (Gillespie 1997, p.74). This form of ideals, that embraces only certain types of female bodies as normal and feminine in accordance to size, weight, shape and often color of the body, ignores natural diversity of women. The normalization of cosmetic surgery not only supports the capitalist system and enforces gender norms into society but also transforms normal body parts and the changes the natural process of aging into abnormal. For example nowadays it is very common to hear someone saying that an individual is ugly or fat and therefore needs to undergo plastic surgery; or questions why someone who is so wealthy would not pay for cosmetic surgery to fix certain parts of their body, which are considerate to be unattractive or abnormal according to the cultural norms. Consequently, the more people select to have cosmetic surgery procedures to create a beautiful face and body, the more ordinary looking individuals will become to be perceived and evaluated as ugly (Morgan 1991,

Plastic Surgery has become a worldwide epidemic in today’s world. The number of plastic surgeries continues to increase since 2010. In today’s day and age, plastic surgery is one of the most popular and requested procedures. Females are opting to have plastic surgery because they dislike their body image. Society has impacted many people by brain washing them to believe that a person’s body has to be perfect. In order for one to be considered beautiful, television and media influence people’s perceptions of beauty.

Cosmetic Surgery has become popular over the years due to the advertisement of celebrities who embrace their surgery to refine their beauty. For example, an article by Anthony Elliot, he labels cosmetic surgery as "Drastic plastic: The rise of cosmetic surgical culture"; "Celebrity obsession: Fame, fortune and faking it"; "Want-now consumerism: Immediate transformation, instant obsolescence"; and "Making the cut: Cosmetic surgical culture in the global electronic economy"(Elliot, 52). The basis of cosmetic surgery is to enhance one 's appearance to suit the paradox established by society’s view of what beauty is. This surgery symbolizes that being true to oneself is not the way, if a person wants to survive the person has to look the part. Cosmetic surgery is harmful to the body which can cause long term damage internally, and should only be used when necessary.

Today, the industry of plastic surgery plays an important role in the market of aesthetics, in 2014, 15.6 cosmetic surgeries (minimally invasive and surgical) were performed in the United States, which represents a three percent increase from 2013 (American Society of Plastic Surgeons, 2015). According to Holliday and Cairnie (2007), social and psychological forces are the main drives of the 21st-century phenomenon of plastic surgery. This phenomenon is linked to a “body ideology” in which women are trying to achieve the perfect body. They modified their physical appearance in order to fit with the aesthetics norms of society. Plastic surgery represents an alternative for women that are unhappy with the way they look. In the late 1980s and early 1990s plastic surgeries were already popular but, by that time women would not express explicitly their desire for big non-natural breast, a big breast that is “to big to be real”. Nowadays, women are looking forward for a “fake-looking” as a way of conspicuous consumption; they want to demonstrate that can afford an expensive surgical procedure to enhance their beauty. Plastic surgeries have become a symbol of status, success, wealth, and fame (Gimlin, 2013).

Why is cosmetic surgery for women becoming increasingly more popular? The number of cosmetic procedures has increased by 3% from 2015 to 2016 in the United States, totaling 17.1 million cosmetic procedures (American Society of Plastic Surgeons, 2016). From 2000 to 2016 the number of cosmetic procedures has drastically increased by 132%. The media reaches and influences nearly half of the 7.6 billion people in the world, with 3.5 billion internet users and 3.03 billion active social media users taking in media messages daily. Numerous studies have been conducted on the influence of media and its connection with cosmetic surgery. Mass media is a prominent influencer of socialization that shapes perceptions and standards in society.

As of the past several years, there seems to be a more socially accepted phenomena, essentially making it so that we can change any imperfection we have with plastic surgery. Seems easy enough, right? Everything we are insecure about goes away with a few dollars and some downtime. Who wouldn't want that?

It’s unpleasant, that in order for people to be considered beautiful, they have to look “perfect”. To achieve this, people are getting cosmetic surgery, which has become an epidemic in the United States. In 2016, 14,269,280 women and 1,315,592 men got cosmetic surgery (“Cosmetic Procedures”). In 2010, former Miss Argentina, Solange Magnano, died from pulmonary embolism due to complications during her butt augmentation surgery. Her blood supply was blocked by the embolism, causing her death. The more surgeries that are being done, the more fatalities there will be (“Model's Death Highlights Plastic Surgery Risks – CNN.Com”).

“I'd rather look younger and feel happy than look older and be depressed” said The Queen of Comedy Joan Rivers. Now a day’s people feel this way about plastic surgery. They would go under knives, hours of surgery and thousands of complication just to look pretty. Every year millions of people go through complicated plastic surgery, and this number is increasing every year. The major reason of this increscent is people want to change their physic to look pretty. Fake beauty or plastic surgery is an obsession this generation in spite of knowing the side effect to bring variation.