why is there controversy over plastic sugery? please also include a list pros and cons of plastic sugery.
Medical professionals are committed to providing patients with health care. The goal of plastic surgery is often not related to health at all, but is often to serve the patient's vanity. So, there appears to be a corrupting situation where money entices surgeons to use their skills for trivial means, like breast augmentation, instead of in service of the truly ill. In fact, most plastic surgeons don't make their living by cosmetic surgery. There is a great need for plastic surgeon's to correct deformity and injury.
If I had the money, I'd totally do it. There's a lot stuff wrong with me that needs to be fixed. Everything from my squiggly eye down to my alien sausage toes. I Believe in natural beauty, But that doesnt matter when you're in a relationship. 34-26-34 matters.
I agree with much of what Ego stated. Just to clarify- there is a difference between plastic surgery and cosmetic surgery. The word plasty- in medicine means repair. So, any time you have something repaired, like your nose (rhinoplasty) because you broke it in a car wreck and you can't breathe through it is plastic surgery. If you get a nose job because you want a different nose, you still have rhinoplasty and it's a cosmetic surgery. So the pros are changing the appearance of something that makes you self-conscious. While this often a vanity issue, it isn't always. Examples are rhinoplasty and breast reconstruction. Typically breast reconstruction is not considered for vanity only if the woman has had a radical mastectomy (her entire breast removed). The cons are all the inherent risks of surgery. There is always the risk of infection and death with ANY surgery. The controversy is subjecting a patient to a medically un-necessary procedure, particularly when that patient is pre-teen or teen, for the sake of vanity.
