Coco Chanel once said, “elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside” (Top 20 Coco Chanel quotes). Many people don’t know the difference between cosmetic surgery and plastic surgery. Cosmetic surgery is when someone chooses to change their image because they want to enhance their appearance. For example, breast enhancement such as augmentation or lift, facial contouring such as rhinoplasty, chin or cheek enhancement, and Body Contouring such as Tummy Tuck, Liposuction, and Gynecomastia Treatment. While plastic surgery is to repair defects you are born with at birth or if you have an accident that leads to damaging your appearance. For example, if a child is born with cleft lip surgery, burn repair surgery, scar revision surgery, etc. Therefore, there are many lifelong damaging effects from cosmetic surgery.
For a start, Many people have died during cosmetic surgery. This was the case for a Dallas woman who traveled to Mexico to have cosmetic surgery. She traveled with her husband to Juarez Mexico on the morning of October 30th to get rhinoplasty surgery. Unfortunately, that wasn’t what she got. The surgery was then postponed to the afternoon because the surgeons who were flying in from Guadalajara were running late. In the afternoon she has admitted to surgery the doctors told her husband it will be for hours meaning the surgery will be done at 4 pm. When her fiance, Cruz finally spoke to her husband they told him she was rushed in an ambulance. According to ABC’s news “ Her family later learned that she had suffered complications from the injection of anesthesia” (Frascescani). Imagine being the Fiance who takes their soon-to-be wife to the hospital to make her happy within a couple of hours. Not even, imagine being super excited and anxious to finally look the way you want to but not knowing it will cost a lot more than money, it will cost your life. Instead of getting the image you’ve always wanted the only image you’ll be getting is the image of you being buried.
Moreover, there are people who dream of getting cosmetic surgery and don’t see the consequences or dangers of the procedure. Adianet Galván Gonzáles dreamed of getting a Brazilian butt lift she didn’t think it would be dangerous since her family and many close friends had got cosmetic surgery and are all good today. In fact, she was confident everything go well because many of them used the same clinic, New Life Plastic Surgery in Miami. Sadly, After she had her surgery on June 4, 2018, when she had fat removed from her back and stomach and put into her butt, she ended up in a coma. According to Miami Herald, “ She died three days later at Kendall Regional Medical Center”(Chang). People who have cosmetic surgery put their life at risk. A lot of people see that there’s no danger to it because they see close friends and family who be perfectly fine. Cosmetic surgery can be dangerous during surgery or affect you later on. Most cosmetic surgeons become surgeons for the money since it's so popular today. The doctor didn’t follow all the needed requirements before performing the surgery on the client. the doctor skipped over the x-rays and other procedures to see if she was healthy for the surgery. Surgeons no longer care about the patient instead they care about the money they get out of it not thinking of the hundreds and thousands of lives that they’re putting in danger.
In addition, there are many dangers to getting cosmetic surgery. Jenelle Salzar Butler wanted a quick fix after giving birth to her son. She was suffering from postpartum depression and lost weight leading up to her insecurities. she later took the number of a man who agreed to inject her butt for 2,000 dollars in cash in a hotel room. She never asked if he was a doctor, or even questioned his job. After the surgery, she recalls having normal itching and initial redness but later on felt fine. However, two or three years later she started feeling pain, itchiness, discoloration, and indentations. A surgeon explained to INSIDER that silicone injections can lead to a stroke, and even death if injected into a blood vessel. The injections can also lead to an infection and granulomas or firm, hard tissue the body develops to wall off foreign substances. Butler immediately proceeded to get them removed once she found this out. People are getting surgery done by anyone who says they will because the doctor gives them a low price. People should be warned once they notice the doctor prices are low and that it’s not in an actual hospital. The client should also do research on the “doctor” who will be performing the surgery. Many doctors take advantage of people who are at their lowest point knowing they’ll do anything to feel better.
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Also, cosmetic surgery can be very dangerous leading to not being able to be a mother. Abdominoplasty or 'tummy tuck' is a cosmetic surgery procedure used to make the abdomen thinner and more firm. The surgery involves the removal of excess skin and fat from the middle and lower abdomen in order to tighten the muscle and fascia of the abdominal wall. Women had a tummy tuck after her first pregnancy due to feeling insecure about the way her stomach looked. Later on, she got pregnant again and was a lot more obese than in her first pregnancy feeling way more insecure. Therefore, she went and scheduled an appointment a couple of months after the pregnancy to get another tummy tuck. In a month she had a tummy tuck and felt like she was back to normal. Two years later, after her son was born Daylin Frias got pregnant with her third child. She was super excited with her third baby and thought everything will go well since with her other two pregnancies it did. Unfortunately, when she was seven months with her third baby she was rushed to the hospital because the baby was running out of room and air. The doctors told her due to two tummy tucks she lost a lot of skin and doesn’t have enough room to carry the baby. Mothers feel very insecure after pregnancies due to their body image changing. Therefore, they shouldn’t be allowed to have surgery because it’s normal for mothers to go through this stage. Instead, they should go to therapy and be filled with positive support all around. Not only is the baby in danger due to skin loss. So is the mother because the risk of having is miscarriage is higher now that the baby is suffocating.
On another hand, there are people who become addicted to getting plastic surgery. They never feel satisfied and continuously get cosmetic surgery. A mother in Hong Kong didn’t recognize her daughter after having over 20 surgeries in two years. The mother told her 29-year-old daughter she wanted to disown her after being unrecognizable to her. South Korea is considered the capital of cosmetic surgery in the world, with the highest rate of surgery anywhere on the planet. The streets and subway are covered with advertisements promoting cosmetic surgery. The advertisement promotes solving body imaging issues to make people feel insecure so they can get plastic surgery. Some of the popular cosmetic surgery in South Korea is double eyelid surgery, v-line jaw reduction, eye-widening, nose bridge augmentation, and celebrity look alike procedures are increasingly popular. The world instead should promote people to accept themselves for who they are. The only reason why people want to get surgery to change their image is that they feel they aren’t as beautiful as others. Yet, people fell to realize everyone is unique and beautiful in their own way.
Have you ever thought about how much is cosmetic surgery or even how much cosmetic surgery makes in one year? Americans spend hundreds of thousands on breast implants, liposuction, and nose surgeries spending billions to make 2016 the most plastic year ever. An American Society of Plastic Surgeons report found Americans spent more than $16 billion on cosmetic plastic surgeries and minimally invasive procedures in 2016. Breast augmentation outpaced other surgeries with nearly 300,000 operations nationwide. Breast augmentations and the 223,018 nose reshaping surgeries both netted doctors more than a billion dollars in 2016. Liposuction also remains popular, with 235,237 surgeries across the U.S. costing about $750 million. By far the most popular minimally-invasive procedures of 2016 were wrinkle treatment injections, such as Botox because of their national average cost of $385 by 7 million Americans. Americans
Many people argue that cosmetic surgery isn’t dangerous at all and that it should remain legal for those who are insecure and depressed because of their looks. In the world, there are people who are more attractive than others. This leads to people feeling insecure and less than others. According to Driscoll, “When performed safely and judiciously, cosmetic surgery can make up for nature’s deficiencies and offer hope to the disheartened”. However, I disagree beauty is within and not outside. Many people meet someone “attractive” and if the person has an ugly personality they stop speaking to them. It is more important to be a great person. Someone who is caring, loving, helpful, encouraging, reliable, etc. People prefer someone who is “ugly” outside and “beautiful” within.
In conclusion, cosmetic surgery should be illegal it is dangerous and causes lifelong damage. Beauty is within and not the outside. There’s a difference between plastic and cosmetic surgery. Plastic surgery should remain legal because it’s for those who are born with a disorder or suffer later on in life suffer from an accident where their image is damaged. For example, burn surgery, Breast reconstruction after breast cancer treatment, Large breasts that cause back or neck pain, Head and neck plastic surgery after cancer treatment, Nerve injuries, etc. While cosmetic surgery should be illegal since people only get it because of vanity. Cosmetic surgery is dangerous due to it being so popular in today’s world. Society has made a type of “beautiful” and/or “perfect” appearance. This makes humans become insecure leading them into thinking changing their appearance will fix their problems and make them “perfect”. Therefore, in reality, cosmetic surgery leads to death or sick health conditions.
Works Cited
- Chang, Daniel. “She Dreamed of Getting Plastic Surgery in Miami. Three Days Later, She Was Dead.” Miamiherald, Miami Herald, 13 June 2018, 07:40am, www.miamiherald.com/latest-news/article212958009.html.
- Driscoll, Sally, and Ann Griswold. “Point: Cosmetic Surgery Offers Hope for the Disheartened.” Points of View: Cosmetic Surgery, Mar. 2016, p. 2. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=pwh&AN=28675212&site=pov-live.
- Evans, Cameron. “The Photos of a Woman's Botched Butt Injections Will Make You Think Twice Before Getting Plastic Surgery.” INSIDER, INSIDER, 11 Dec. 2018, www.thisisinsider.com/silicone-butt-injection-jenelle-salazar-butler-instagram-2018-4.
- Francescani, Chris. “Woman Who Suffered Brain Damage after Receiving Plastic Surgery in Mexico Dies, Family Says.” ABC News, ABC News Network, 24 Nov. 2018, abcnews.go.com/International/woman-suffered-brain-damage-receiving-plastic-surgery-Mexico/story?id=59396333
- Frias, Daylin. Personal interview. 12 January 2019.
- “Top 20 Coco Chanel Quotes.” Matchbook Magazine, www.matchbookmag.com/daily/75-top-20-coco-chanel-quotes.
- “The Reality of Plastic Surgery Addiction More than Skin-Deep.” Drug & Alcohol Rehab in Hong Kong, 19 Aug. 2016, www.thecabinhongkong.com.hk/blog/co-occurring-disorders/the-reality-of-plastic-surgery-addiction-more-than-skin-deep/.
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