INTRODUCTION:
I. Plastic surgery are divide into two branches that are cosmetic surgery and reconstructive surgery. Cosmetic surgery is mainly people that desire to enhance his or her physical appearance while reconstructive surgery is focus to reconstruct the facial and body defects to improve functions. Normally the defects due to birth disorders, trauma, burns, and disease.
II. In today’s society, people gradually care more about their appearance than their inner beauty.
III. People who are dissatisfied with their appearances have alternative ways to improve the way they look, such as makeup, clothes, hairstyle. However, some people will choose to undergo cosmetic surgery to enhance their physical appearance.
IV. In worldwide cosmetic
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Among popular procedures for cosmetic surgery for Malaysian male and female are injecting botulinum toxin (or Botox), fillers and platelet-rich plasma (PRP) into their faces to reduce wrinkles, and laser treatments to lighten dark spots. Botox cost approximately RM 1000 per session. Fillers and platelet-rich plasma (PRP) cost about RM 2000 per session.
d. This is considered as a high cost that need to pay by individual to enhance his or her physical feature. For example, Jocelyn Wildenstein "Cat Woman" has spent at least $4 million dollars on cosmetic surgery.
B. There are follow up cost after cosmetic surgery.
a. There is follow-up procedures, medical check-up, injection supply that need to be done once surgery is done.
b. Cost of maintaining is high, one may eventually face financial constraint. This will lead the individual to go for black market cosmetic surgeons. Black market cosmetic surgery is when unlicensed and unqualified practitioners offer cheap, usually deadly, alternatives to authorized cosmetic procedures. (Signpost: The second reason is cosmetic surgery can be addictive.)
II. Cosmetic surgery can be addictive
A. According to the countless cosmetic surgery addicts, at first they thought just this one time, but at the end countless cosmetic surgery will be
In my opinion, plastic surgery will continue to be a serious problem unless we stop plastic surgery. Cosmetic surgery is now so popular that even young, healthy, attractive woman are choosing to be “enhanced”. Dolly Parton, born Dolly Rebecca Parton is a 65 years old from Tennessee, best know for her work in country music. Dolly described her family as Dirt poor. She grew up with 11 siblings 5 sisters and 6 brothers.
The author also describes how much appearance is important to us. In what point of time did we allow our society to tell us what is and is not beautiful. People worried about what others would say or losing friends because their teeth are not perfect or they are not skinny enough. Your appearance should not take away from the person you are on the inside. We entrust dentist and plastic surgeons to cause pain to our bodies to meet societies expectations of beauty and spend thousands in the
Some people don’t realize that and try to live up to the unrealistic standards that we have created in our heads of what is really pretty. In that same article it describes beauty standards as features that are considered “pretty” in today's society. “They determine what is “beautiful”, from body shape, to facial proportions, to height and weight.” (Povey) This shows that the issue of beauty standards is a problem we face today because we can’t change the way we look.
(Westerfeld 16) Instead of seeing true beauty Tally only sees the beauty the surgery gave people. Everyone believes the only beauty is through the surgery except the select few who can’t be controlled and see themselves as beautiful. “After one surgery, addicts will find a reason to have a second, then a third… in their quest for ‘perfection’” (Dr. Howard Samuels 1) People can get habituated to the idea of ‘perfection’ from surgery but technology can’t fix everything.
Nowadays, a glance at a digitally enhanced magazine can brainwash teens of this era into getting cosmetic surgery. Why in the world do magazines put forth altered images as a standard of beauty? The teens who see these images often already battle self-confidence issues and these furthermore sustain the issue. They believe looking like a fake image is the only way to look beautiful, which says adverse things about the messages put out by media. This generation really is “waxed” supported along the lines of Koenigs saying, “It’s not the natural desire to look beautiful, but the unnatural standards of beauty that uniquely affect my generation.”
In the essay What Meets the Eye, Daniel Akst argues that look or beauty does matter in the daily life, that is, people’s life can be largely influenced or even controlled by look. Through reading Akst’s essay, I completely understand how people have different perspectives of others, as many people pay attention to and worry about how they look in the daily life. And people tend to judge others by their beauty or looks to a large extent. Akst’s ideas quite conform to and reinforce Paglia’s points that pursuing and maximizing one’s attractiveness and beauty is a justifiable aim in any society, and that good surgery discovers reveals personality. Both of them hold the idea that beauty plays an important role in people’s life and it is significant to enhance one’s beauty and attractiveness.
Cosmetic surgery, in the U.S., is known to have a negative connotation, because one would consider you “fake” or not true to yourself. From this study done by Weston and Pearls, a large number of teens in this school would consider getting cosmetic surgery. There are different reasons to wanting it done. One might consider it for self-esteem purposes or if they have a medical problem that is disabling them from living a normal life.
The media portrays these unrealistic standards to men and women of how women should look, which suggests that their natural face is not good enough. Unrealistic standards for beauty created by the media is detrimental to girls’ self-esteem because it makes women feel constant external pressure to achieve the “ideal look”, which indicates that their natural appearance is inadequate. There has been an increasing number of women that are dissatisfied with themselves due to constant external pressure to look perfect. YWCA’s “Beauty at Any Cost” discusses this in their article saying that, “The pressure to achieve unrealistic physical beauty is an undercurrent in the lives of virtually all women in the United States, and its steady drumbeat is wreaking havoc on women in ways that far exceed the bounds of their physical selves” (YWCA).
If this scenario is viewed in isolation it will be a personal problem but if it is viewed under the microscope of social imagination it will reveal that due to society’s high standards and obsession with beauty has effected number of people in society. In a nutshell Social imagination is being able to distinguish personal problems
Flawless aesthetics is a goal that many individuals strive towards, women especially. In recent years, American society has been making efforts to subdue this trend. The revolutionary movement teaching individuals that they are beautiful in their own way is diminishing the negative attitude towards natural beauty. Through social media, celebrities and even cosmetic companies this mentality is being practiced around the globe. It convinces people that makeup and artificial alterations are not necessary, and current makeup trends reflect this approach.
According to Britton (2012), last 2008, YWCA USA developed a report Beauty at Any Cost wherein they discuss the consequences of beauty obsession of every woman in America. It shows that beauty obsession results from a decrease in the level of self-esteem. It also gives a problem to the Americans because it’s also putting a dent in their pockets. It states that because of those cosmetics many people have decreased the level of self-esteem because of those cosmetics.
Today plastic surgery is being embraced by the millions and highly looked upon. Advertisements and media incorporated young, beautiful women to sell the product with fake and flawless women in advertisements, an ideal body is created by the minds of viewers. This causes viewers to do as much as possible involving plastic surgery, to look like the models. For Instance, in 2015 more than 13.5 million women went under the knife by surgeons certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery, says the American Society of Plastic Surgeons statistics. The five most popular invasive surgical procedures for women in 2015 were liposuction, breast augmentation, tummy tucks, eyelid surgery and breast lift (ASPS statistics).
1.0 Introduction 1.1 Background of the Issue This report is written to find out the pros and cons of cosmetic surgery to people as well as how much cosmetic surgery has benefited people both positively and negatively. Cosmetic surgery procedures have been performed back in the early 1800s, which means it has been in existence for centuries as what history has suggested. Besides that, the development of cosmetic surgery states that it started to gain popularity since the 1970s and 1980s. Cosmetic surgery can be defined as the operative procedure as improvement of appearance is the principal purpose (Medical Dictionary for the Dental Professions, 2012).
"Today, hundreds of thousands of aesthetic plastic surgery procedures are conducted each year" (Petechuk, 2014, p. 4). People do not think twice about having a procedure done because they have enough money. People believe that insecurities can be fixed to make themselves feel better. Unfortunately, people all over the world are having surgeries done. Most might not think this is unfortunate, but some do.
All people have reason for what they doing. Nowadays, the problem in people is they didn 't want to listen to explanation they just want to judge and contented for what they see. Taking plastic surgery is not that bad unless you do so. Don 't look only for the negative side of a thing; look also for the positive