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Persuasive Essay: The Danger Of Cosmetic Surgery

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Rachive Joseph
Professor James Martin
ENC1101
11 October 2014
The Danger of Cosmetic Surgery
In today’s society being beautiful is a real slim and sexy super model with the body of a goddess posted on billboards all around the world. Children who are growing up playing with Barbie dolls would measure their body to be 39, 18, or 38. Because of these pictures and other figures that are portraying all over the world, one would believe that to be beautiful and happy. However, the easiest way to achieve these things is by having a cosmetic surgery performed. Medical procedures has became more advance with the change of time, yet how safe can a person who is having plastic surgery performed on his or her body be? No matter how good technology seems …show more content…

One of the reasons is death, the amounts of untrained doctors are increasing constantly all over the country because of that the risk of death and improper results are increasing greatly. For example, a person with low-income who is attracting to the vision of beauty on the magazines or television would definitely go to one of these fake surgeons because these doctors promise good results at half price. In addition to that, any doctor these days can perform procedures such as liposuction even a dentist would do it. Many fatalities of cosmetic surgeries have been as a result of doctors who don’t have a licensed and they are performing highly technical surgeries. Another reason is unsanitary conditions, most the doctors who are performing these surgeries don’t have a proper place and they don’t have clean materials such as office-based procedures. As a result of this, people can get infected easily after having their surgery performed. Furthermore, many of these doctors are not licensed by The American of Plastic Surgeons and Reconstructive so they don’t have any mandatory test performed on their surgical tools and area, many infections can occur. Dirty tools can cause bacteria to be present in the body after the surgery sometimes can even cause death. There are many other factors that should be viewing as risks of cosmetic plastic surgery. For instance, smoking can greatly increase the risk of complications for anyone who is having

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