Teenage plastic surgery still rare
If you look at the time the media devotes to plastic surgery stories (mostly negative, though), you would start to believe that not only are almost all Americans lining up outside plastic surgeons’ offices, the line also includes a lot of teenagers. Nothing could farther from the truth: out of the total procedures, plastic surgery by teenagers is in single digits and that is because the statistics tend to count laser hair removal and microdermabrasion as plastic surgery procedures.
The most frequently performed surgical procedure for teenage group is nose reshaping or rhinoplasty. Some of the less popular procedures are breast reduction (normally done for health reasons), correction of breast asymmetry (fixes a body deformity), treatment of Gynecomastia (men shouldn’t look like women after all), chin augmentation (typically done with a nose job to bring the face into balance), and lipoplasty or liposuction (while a cosmetic procedure but not a surprise considering how fast obesity is growing).
Why are the numbers still low?
Apart from the simple reason that their parents will have to pay for the procedure, most parents typically do not want them to go under the knife for the sake of vanity. And even if the teenagers drag their parents to the clinic, board-certified plastic surgeons follow very strict guidelines and in most cases if they are not convinced, they will refuse to perform the surgery.
So if you are a parent and your teenager wants to see a plastic surgeon, my advice is that unless there is enough medical reason to do it, there is no reason to do it before 18. That leaves only the rhinoplasty – a popular procedure that is done for cosmetic reasons. Can’t she wait till she can pay for it herself? Even Ashlee Simpson did.
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