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Society 's Outlook On Plastic Surgery

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If you could change something about yourself would you? Nowadays the advancement in medicine allows us to enhance or transform any part of our body that is not appealing to us. Perhaps getting rid of some of that extra fat or getting larger breast will help self-esteem issues but should there be an age limit to when one can change or “enhance” their body? Society 's outlook on plastic surgery has changed throughout the years; it has become something so common that it is no longer looked down upon on. According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons “15.6 million cosmetic procedures, including both minimally-invasive and surgical, were performed in the United States in 2014, an increase of 3 percent since 2013.” and the rates continue to expand as the years go by. There are so many more surgical procedures that can be done compared to when plastic surgeries began back in 1895. We have come a long way and society now more than ever puts a tremendous amount of pressure on adolescents to be perfect. Teenagers have become so obsessed with what they see on T.V they are no longer content with their image and turn to cosmetic surgery to make them feel like they belong. Allowing any teenager to have plastic surgery is obnoxious unless there is a medical reason behind the procedure such an “enhancement” should not be done with or without parental consent. As the author of Teen Plastic Surgery: Ethical or not? Defines the teenage years as “ a period of physiological and mental

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