Teens Should Not to Have a Plastic Surgery

Is plastic surgery safe or necessary? What the girls want to do for their 16th birthday nowadays? About 15 years ago they asked for a new dress, shoes; now they want breast enlargements. The problem of plastic surgeries being performed on minors is really controversial. Should adolescents be able to get what they want before they reach maturity or not? Young teen’s these days are influenced by the pressure of media and their parent’s actions, not thinking about their health, and becoming too eager to change their appearance. There may be many reasons for that problem. About 10 years ago plastic surgery was something that only wealthy people might afford. The present day situation has changed dramatically and the demand is huge. In the 1990’s routine liposuction cost no less than $7,000, now the price of it as low as $700 (Di Carlo 2). Men and women are fighting for their looks in every way possible even if plastic surgery can harm their health. It does not matter how small the operation might be, no medical intervention is safe, and there is always a chance something goes wrong. Cosmetic fairy tales in the U.S. are spreading through the minds of a nation. The magazines and TV are show pictures of celebrities with perfect bodies, perfect hair, and perfect appearance; that is the main idea of society nowadays. Those kinds of message people are getting each day from mass media. According to an American Society of Plastic Surgeon’s survey, about 60, 000 of respondents do not like their noses, 30,000 do not like their chins, 6,000 do not like their ears and another 6,000 do not like their eyes (ASPS 1). In 2011 in the United States about 11.2 million plastic surgeries were performed. These include liposuctions, nose reshaping, breast implants, eyelid surgeries and buttocks implants(ASPS 1).Obviously those operations are cosmetically associated, but originally plastic surgeries were invented for people who suffer from damaging birth