Cosmetic Surgery: Is it Necessary?
Cosmetic surgery is a sub discipline of plastic surgery. While the main goal of plastic surgery is reconstruction, the only focus of cosmetic surgery is to enhance a person’s appearance. Although cosmetic surgery is a widely known procedure to enhance physical beauty, it brings negative impacts to individuals and society itself due to three reasons: danger to health, unrealistic beauty standards, and inefficient money consumption.
First and foremost, all cosmetic procedures carry risks. This means that cosmetic surgeries carry much bigger risks even more so than cosmetic procedures. As far as what cosmetic surgeons and patients have discovered, the most common cosmetic surgery risks are: anesthetic complications, organ damage, nerve damage, hematoma, infection, seroma and necrosis. In spite of the fact that the instances of these risks happen rarely at a rate ranging from 1 – 15 percent, it is undeniably inevitable. In fact, it is “more common in certain people” (Anna Schaefer, 2014). Moreover, there are particular individuals who are more prone to vulnerable to the dangers of cosmetic surgery due to specific underlying conditions. Those with a history of cardiovascular disease, lung disease, diabetes or obesity have a higher risk of developing complications such as pneumonia, stroke, heart attack or blood clots in the legs or lungs (Mayo Clinic Staff, 2016). Aside from physical health dangers and risks, cosmetic surgery can potentially