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Finding the right plastic surgeon has become easier for Americans. Many surgeons have created facebook pages for potential customers to visit. The pages include customer testimonials as well as blogs written by the surgeons themselves. Past patients are able to connect with potential patients to give them advice and share their experiences.

Facebook, privately owned and operated by Facebook, Inc., is a social networking website which allows people to keep in touch. Each member is able to create a profile and send messages back and forth among friends. There are many networks that a person can join in order to network with cities, businesses, schools, and clubs. The website is free to users and generates money through advertisers. Facebook is often compared to myspace, another social networking website.

The rush to add plastic surgery to facebook has many benefits to both the surgeons and the patients. People are able to learn about different procedures and find the right one for them, right from the comfort of their home. They are able to connect with experts and get questions answered directly. This makes finding a plastic surgeon easy and convenient.

The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) is also on facebook. Their facebook page includes news about advances in the organization as well as blogs about what to expect from many different procedures. It has connections to other websites that are sponsored by the ASAPS including online journals and loan offers. Minutes from ASAPS meetings can even be viewed and people can keep up with everything that is going on in the plastic surgery field.

Some surgeons use other venues to promote their procedures. Twitter has become popularly used for updating people with new advances in surgeries and the benefits of different types of procedures. Some are even thinking of broadcasting the surgeries on the web. These patients would have their identities protected, while allowing others to see how the procedures are performed.

Modiface, a Canadian website, has a very innovative feature which allows potential patients to see how they will look after a procedure. People who are interested in facial surgery, are allowed to download a photo and then alter it to see what they will look like after a nose job or facelift. Other sites are considering adding the same features for whole body procedures.

Choosing a cosmetic procedure and finding the right surgeon has never been easier. Logging on to facebook can provide unlimited access to tons of information about plastic surgery.

The pressure of looking good and having a nice body has grown overwhelming in today’s society. Men and women alike feel that they must look good to be successful. In many ways, this is true. In order to remain marketable in the job market or to get those promotions, looking good is essential. This ideal has leaked into the psych of teens, who are undergoing a rising number of cosmetic procedures.

The pressure of looking good is felt very keenly by teens. They are picked on at school because of a wide range of physical differences. It doesn’t take much of a difference for a bully to pick at. Many teens are awed by a celebrity idol and they dream of looking as beautiful, as that celebrity. The teen years have always been hard, but now there is a way to lighten some of that burden. Plastic surgery can help to give teens the confidence that they lack and allow them to be more accepted among their peers.

Natural News reported that the figures for 2008, from the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, showed that surgeries performed on people under the age of 19 was very high. In fact 160,283 U.S. residents of that age underwent some form of cosmetic surgery. The surgeries ranged from breast augmentation and liposuction to hair removal and birthmark removal.

369 people of that age group actually had a controversial procedure called blepharoplasty. Blepharoplasty, also know as ‘Asian eye surgery,’ is a surgery where the eyes of people of Asian descent are widened. Gerald Pitman, a plastic surgeon in New York City, told USA Today, “The kids I see, their desire is almost uniformly to be normal, non-deviant. Kids don’t want to stand out in a negative way.”

The fact that cosmetic surgery has become very mainstream has made society much less judgmental about it. If a person is willing to undergo a procedure to make themselves look and feel better wouldn’t they do the same for their child? Donn Chatham, president of the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, told Natural News, “…parents may themselves even be undergoing cosmetic surgery and may feel for our children that it’s not such a stretch.”

Many parents and surgeons believe that since the technology exists and can benefit their children, then there is nothing wrong with using it. Most people have cosmetic surgery to give them confidence and allow them to live a happier, more full life. In this regard, people under the age of 19 are no different.

If we had endless supplies of money there are probably lots of surgeries we would all like to have. But this being the real world, and the recession to boot, we simply stick with the procedures we want the most or the ones which we think will be most beneficial to us in the long run. We may even begin to look abroad for cheaper surgeries or opt for companies who have special offers on. One idea which would probably, and thankfully, never occur to us is to simply perform the procedure ourselves! However, as outlandish as this sounds, it’s what one woman from California has done.

Ironically, the woman is now having to undergo proper reconstructive surgery after she attempted to do plastic surgery herself, on her own face! The 54 year old, who has three children, attempted to make herself look younger by injecting herself with liquid silicone in her cheeks and lips.  So far so crazy, but this is when it starts to get serious. The woman thought that everything would be fine but soon the swelling started. She commented: “I can’t believe I did what I did…I thought I was going to be happy with the results, then the next day, my face became very inflamed, very red [and] swollen.”

Amazingly, this isn’t an isolated case. The doctor who had to perform the corrective surgery on this woman has also spoken out, saying that: “We’ve noticed an uptick in people trying to do things like this at home…and having problems, and (then) having to come in and see us.”

The rise in popularity of plastic surgery, coupled with the economic downturn is apparently turning more and more people towards the idea of performing their own surgeries at home. This is not a good idea (but you knew that already right?)

This is a worrying trend which seems to be tacked onto the back of the rise of unlicensed cosmetic surgery.  Trends such as Botox parties are becoming more and more popular and yet many of them are not safe. This story, whilst shocking and, quite frankly, amusing, has a very serious point behind it. If you are going to take the plunge into cosmetic surgery, make sure that you are doing so with a licensed, qualified and competent doctor who will do a beautiful and professional job. Don’t do it yourself, leave it to the experts.

Stereotypically, it was always women who went under the knife and had surgeries to improve their looks. However, over the last 20 years, beginning that now legendary Levi’s laundrette advert, the rise of male image-consciousness and themetrosexual has led to a surge in men wanting to go under the knife. 

Whilst “moobs” have long been the scourge of the male population, there are now new complaints which are also creeping up the surgery-popularity list. Male jowels are one of the most common problems amongst men and, perhaps spurred on by modern advertisements and popular culture, male love handles are also one of the embarrassments which men are going under the knife to try and get rid of. 

According to the latest news though, it’s not simply bad diets which are forcing more men to go under the knife, its increased stress-levels and longer working days which mean they have less time to take care of themselves than they perhaps previously used to.  The four main career areas which see most men going under the knife are the banking and city professions, the civil service, the political arena and the professional services such as legal and accountancy jobs. These are all demanding, stressful jobs to be doing and thus perhaps that is the reason why more of them turn to surgery than do their male counterparts who are in other professions. Of course, there is also the point to be made that, in all those professions, youthful vigour and good looks are a key part of rising to the top and thus this is undoubtedly another reason behind so many of the men undergoing surgery. 

Mr. Fratti, a surgeon with the Harvey Medical Group who carried out the new research, has said that: The bad diets, punishing hours and stress that often go hand in hand with these types of professions make men prime candidates for premature aging.  We’re not surprised to a trend emerge for professions most likely to opt for surgery as the side-effects of a punishing job can cause the loss of skin elasticity and encourage build up of stubborn fat in key areas.”

Clearly some of these men should switch to a much more relaxing occupation such as copy-writing!  It’s not just sculpting bodies which men seem to be obsessed with, so called boytox, Botox for men, has increased as well. Surgery is no longer just a woman’s place!

The boom in cheap flights and the shrinking of the world due to globalisation has led to a phenomenal increase in the number of so called surgery-tourists over the past decade; people going abroad in order to get cheaper surgeries and combining their makeovers with luxurious holidays.

It all sounds so wonderful but, occasionally, it can go wrong.  33% of surgeons, according to a recent study, said that they have seen an increase in the amount of repair work they have had to do over the last 5 years; that being work to repair botched or mishandled surgeries which had been performed abroad by unlicensed ‘surgeons’.

The report is full of similarly worrying statistics about the dangers of heading off abroad to undergo major surgery. 14% of surgeons polled said they had seen at least 9 patients who were needing to re-do surgery which has been performed abroad and a staggering 92% of surgeons who were questioned said that they were most concerned by the lack of aftercare which is provided to patients after they have had their surgeries. If you think about it logically, this is a pretty obvious concern; one cannot expect to receive good quality checkups and aftercare if the surgery is performed half-way around the world. Most reputable companies will offer regular check-ups in your home country but, again, this is something which you should look into before even considering surgery-tourism.  Douglas McGeorge, the president of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, has spoken out after his organisation released these figures saying: “My experience with patients has shown that counselling is inadequate- the individuals have no idea of the standards of care in the country they are visiting and no knowledge of the abilities or experience of the surgeon. Follow-up is difficult. Complications do occur and are usually left to the British system to treat.”

This is indeed a worrying trend and re-enforces that having surgery in Britain, whilst perhaps a little more expensive, means that you are always near experts and are getting the best of the world-class treatment available in this country. The top three concerns which surgeons seemed to have about surgery-tourism were the language barriers which people could encounter (how can you have a full understanding of what will happen if you can’t speak the language?) and the quality of aftercare and overall quality of the medical systems in some countries.