The Major Causes And Effects Of Plastic Surgery

“Use the knife and the cautery to cure the intumescence and moral necrosis which you will feel in the posterior parietal region…of self-esteem… after you have made a mistake in diagnosis”-William Osler. Plastic Surgery is seen as a modern day solution for changing the undesired part or parts of the body. People nowadays feel the need to change their physical appearance in order to stay trendy or meet their desired look. In the current years, plastic or cosmetic surgeries, to be more specific, are on the rise due to easy access and proportionally low costs. There are numerous reasons to why people seek plastic surgery, and there are many complications that can occur due to it. One of the major causes to seeking plastic surgeries is the effect of modern day media on the society. Furthermore, the media and body image are tightly related due to the excessive amount of exposure we have to the images we see in the media. Beauty has been categorized by the media as many specific features, whether it is a skinny body shape and a ‘thigh gap’ or high cheek bones and a tiny nose. No matter how falsifying those images seem, people still tend to trust what they see and still be confusing real with unreal. “Plastic surgery reality shows play a significant role in cosmetic surgery patients’ perceptions and decision making”, another writer has stated. According to an article, “Four of five patients reported that television influenced them to pursue a cosmetic