Plastic Surgery Addiction - Siti Maryam

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Plastic Surgery Addiction

Nowadays, people have a number of ways to make them perfect or beautiful such as: the using of cosmetics, doing sport, consuming drugs, and the worse is doing plastic surgery. Plastic surgery becomes a trend among people, either women or men. Although they have known that do the plastic surgery provide bad risk to their body, they seem ignore it and keep doing plastic surgery even for more than once. When people feel that doing plastic surgery is a need and tend to do it more and more, they can be considered that they got addicted. "There is such a thing as too much plastic surgery," says Dr. Roxanne Guy, president of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. He says “Too much is when patients repeatedly turn to the scalpel to fill an emotional need”. Then, there are some cases about plastic surgery addictions that did by women and men

The practice of plastic surgery has been occurring for a few years ago, in this last decade. There are many types of plastic surgery, such as: Botox, Facelift, Liposuction, breast augmentation, and many more. The following is a sample of plastic surgery case did by 20 years-old boy from America. He did plastic surgery for 37 times. He did many types of plastic surgery, such as: job nose for twice, facelift for once, face tattoos for four times, forehead lifts for three times, Liposuctions for seven times, hair transplants for twice, body implant for three times and mouth implants for ten times. He did plastic surgery three times a year. He confessed that he did plastic surgery when he lost someone in his life. When his grandmother and stepsister died in a plane crash, he had a face lift. Then, when his mother died, he had a cheek lift. Although his face looked “freak” he still proud of his body and face. He said that he didn’t want to look sad and old.

Then, there is also a sample of having plastic surgery for breast augmentation that did by 16-years old girl from America. She did plastic surgery for ten times, which were: Eye Lift, Chin Implant, Cheeks Resculpted, Liposuction on Neck , Tummy Tuck , Botox, Lip Implants for twice, and Breast Augmentations for twice. The reason why she did plastic surgery was because she had raped by two men. She said that when she woke up in the morning, she wanted change herself. She thought that if she had plastic surgery, maybe she couldn’t see who she is. Then, she came to a surgeon and had plastic surgery. Nevertheless, she felt that there was something wrong with her. Everyone she met didn’t see her but her breast that seemed abnormal. After she got rehabilitation for her trauma of rape, she regretted her decision for having plastic surgery. Then, she wanted to get one more plastic surgery which made her breast smaller.

By seeing these samples of people who did plastic surgery, we can say that plastic surgery not always gives us benefit. When we do plastic surgery for the first time and we satisfy of it, we may get addict to do it more and more. However, someday we will regret of what we have done. Actually, when we feel unsatisfied of our appearance or we have imperfect bodies, something we must repair is not our body but our mindset. We have to be grateful of what we are. Then, it is better for us to show up our ability rather than changing our bodies. Therefore, our beauty inside will shine outside by itself.

Reference:

- Adato, Allison (2007). Obsessed with Plastic Surgery (online). Available at: http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20062412,00.html Accessed [March 20^th 2012]

- Widyaningtyas, Esmasari (2010). Bedah Plastik: di puja atau dicela? (online). Available at: http://www.solopos.com/2010/lifestyle/kesehatan/bedah-plastik-dipuja-atau-dicela-17536 Accessed [March 20th 2012]

- Anonymous (2011). Facelift, Chin Liposuction, and Blepharosplasty (eyelid surgery) (online). Available at: http://www.faceforum.com/personal_experiences/index.aspx Accessed [March 20th 2012]