NAME : HIEW YEE KEE (0319397) Good afternoon Miss Deborah and my course mates. I’m standing here today to present a speech on a very common phenomenon which is cosmetic surgery. What exactly is cosmetic surgery? According to Medical News Today (2014), cosmetic surgery aims to improve the aesthetic appearance of a person. It is reported by the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons that more than 50,000 cosmetic surgery procedures were carried out on 2013. People choose to have cosmetic surgery to achieve a feature appearance that they wish to have to gain self-esteem, to look younger or to improve physical shortcomings. In my speech, I’ll talk about the three main side-effects of receiving cosmetic surgery which are health issues, infections and psychological state. The first negative effect of cosmetic surgery I’ll talk about is health issues. According to Buzzle (2012), some common complaints from the patients after the surgery are headache, vomiting, prolonged pain, nausea and more. This is because patients underwent change in their body chemistry during the process which causes the body system to react negatively to the outcome. Another reason is that the process of the surgery requires the use of Anesthesia, which is a temporary state of one’s unconsciousness and this is very risky as Anesthesia is responsible for 34 deaths in United States annually reported by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (Cherney, 2014). The second side-effect of