PLASTIC SURGERY: THE BEST WAY TO SURVIVE

It is all about the looks! In this society, the most important thing is how you look. The better you look, the more advantages you will have. Like for example, if you are a handsome person you could get the last seat on a full bus or someone may let you pass in the cash register line but instead of this if you have strange “ugly” features you can be misjudged and at the same time you can be excluded from a group. It sounds bad, but it is reality. This is why so many people are entering into the world of plastic surgery. It is plastic surgery the solution to most of people’s problems? Plastic surgery is the best choice for two reasons.

First, plastic surgery helps a lot of people to fight health issues like deformities or birth defects. This kind of surgery tries to correct affected parts of the human body; these parts can be affected by an injury or deformity that can be product of diseases, burns or car accidents, for example a woman with really big breasts could suffer serious problems with her spine so she could have breasts reduction, or someone with trouble to breathing because his/her nose is deformed could have a rhynoplasty. The principal goals of the reconstructive surgery are the correction of peculiarities, the restoration of lost functions and the improvement of the aspect of disfigured parts.

Second, plastic surgery helps people to lift up their self-esteem. In Western culture there is a pre-established beauty concept. Men and women should be thin, have well provided bodies and showy. Some people don’t fulfill these standards and they feel excluded, develop low self-esteem and it is difficult for them to find a date, so most of the people tries to reach this beauty ideal to have more possibilities in their life. Esthetic plastic surgery helps to chain certain unattractive features of a person, correcting or modifying imperfections. In general, this surgery tries to improve the appearance of people by surgical intervention that helps them to approach the standards established by the actual society and become a more loving person with themselves.

Opponents to plastic surgery affirm that these kinds of procedures are risky for one’s health. They claim that many people have died in the operating room because of these surgeries. This point has some merit on the surface. But it is logical that if someone is going to practice a surgery of this type, she/he has to take care of some things like visiting the clinic, seeing how clean is it, where it is located, searching for the records of the doctor who is going to do the procedure, and also running all the tests as much psychological as physical to find out if he/she is a good candidate for surgery. Follow all this steps and the results will be great.

In conclusion, there are many reasons why plastic surgery is the better choice. It helps people to fight health issues like obesity or spine problems or the consequences of a car accident. Also this kind of surgery helps people to raise their self-esteem and give them the courage to do more things in their lives, like ask someone on a date or go back to school or have more security in their decisions. Believed it or not, this society is governed it by beauty and by appearance, so we have to look for a way to survive. Plastic surgery is one of the best way to do it.

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