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    Plastic surgery is a medical specialty concerned the "correction" or restoration of form and function. Though cosmetic or aesthetic surgery is the best-known kind of plastic surgery, plastic surgery is not necessarily cosmetic (Wikipedia ,n.d.) . Usually, plastic surgery is a procedure that is not preferred because a person has to go under a surgical knife. However, there will be unavoidable situations where plastic surgery becomes necessary. Thousands of people have these operations done every year

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    Plastic surgery has been a hot-button issue in recent years because of the debate of how far procedures can and should go. TV shows like Botched highlight how plastic surgeries can go wrong and make someone look fake, but that is a rarer scenario than media perceives it to be. Because of media’s prevalence in our lives, we see plastic surgery as fake and those who seek it faker. Not all the people who seek plastic surgery are doing it in vain. They are seeking to better themselves. The truth is media

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    There Be… Plastic?!’” Why workout when you can simply get pec, glute, quad, and lat implants? Why embrace the body you were given when you can mold it into your favorite celebrity with only a couple hundred thousand dollars? These are questions people would not even have imagined less than 30 years ago. In recent years, however, the growth of plastic surgery has boomed throughout the world. Merely since 2000, overall cosmetic procedures have increased by 115 percent (American Society of Plastic Surgeons)

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    Plastic surgery in today’s medical world Plastic surgery can be defined as the specialty in the medical field that involves the restoration, reconstruction, or alteration of the human body. Plastic surgery can be separated into two groups: reconstructive surgery and cosmetic surgery. The thesis of this essay is to examine these two types of surgery and to examine the effect that it has on today’s medical world, and what causes people to seek plastic surgery. Reconstructive surgery includes craniofacial

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    some skills that a person should have to effectively write about Plastic surgery. This ranges from an in-depth knowledge of the topic and good researching skills. Do you desire to gain writing skills that will enable you write about Plastic surgery? If yes, pay attention to what we are going to discuss here. As earlier stated, you need to have an in-depth knowledge of this topic. Let us start off by understanding what Plastic surgery is all about. This is a surgical procedure that aims at rectifying

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    assign a judgment as to why they had plastic surgery. There are numerous sources sharing statistics on plastic surgery, and surgery.org shares, “In the past year, plastic surgeons performed nearly 14 million cosmetic procedures with total surgeon fees exceeding $10 billion. … The number of cosmetic procedures for women increased over 252% from 1997. The top five surgical procedures for women were: breast augmentation, liposuction, tummy tuck, eyelid surgery, and breast lift.” It raises the question

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    The first career that interested me was plastic surgery. Plastic surgery deals with the repair, reconstruction, or replacement of physical defects of form or function involving the skin, musculoskeletal system, cranio and maxillofacial structures, hand, extremities, breast and trunk, and external genitalia” Plastic surgery is divided into two different categories cosmetic surgery and reconstructive surgery. Cosmetic plastic surgery is focused on enhancing people’s appearance. Improving aesthetic

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    Side Effects of Plastic Surgery Plastic surgery, like most of medicine, was a work in progress for centuries. Now people are paying top dollar to modify their body, everything from their face to their stomach to even their buttocks. The question one must consider before making a decision to change physically is, are the side effects worth it? Under going plastic surgery can open-doors for bacterial or viral infections, allergic reactions from medications to result in unwanted scars, irreversible

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    Innovative technological advancements in plastic and reconstructive surgery have led to a multitude of procedures that are specifically designed to enhance an individual 's appearance. According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons ' 2016 National Plastic Surgery Statistics Report, the number of breast enhancement procedures performed annually continues to rise. It is no surprise that every woman wants to look her best: As such, the breasts are one area of the body that many of the women

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    natural figure and shape. Celebrities are known for their constant surgeries, and make average people want to change what they look like to. Besides, doesn't everyone want to have Beyoncé’s chiseled face? The first plastic surgery procedure was performed during World War One in 1917. The patient's name was Walter Yeo and he suffered from the loss of his upper and lower eyelids. Sir Harry Gillies was the doctor who performed the surgery. He extracted skin from undamaged areas of Yeo’s body. Then

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