When Is It OK for Teens to Get Plastic Surgery?

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Teens getting plastic surgery? What's wrong with them? I can see surgery for someone with a birth defect or traumatic injury of some kind, but for ordinary people (girls most likely) that want a nose job, breast implants, etc? If your self-esteem is so totally tied to JUST the way you look, you probably need more than 4 therapy sessions. Let me qualify my remarks with the statement that I actually considered breast reduction surgery for my daughter when she was a teen. Her medium-size frame was carrying 36Ds and it was hard on her back and she slumped. The doctor said to wait until she was 18 and let her finish growing. We waited, and soon her figure filled out, she lost a little weight (mostly breast tisuue), and is now more proportional. When kids turn 18 they can do what they want, but I can't imagine any respectable doctor thinking that this is OK for most kids.

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I had breast reduction surgery at 14. I was 5'2", 110 pounds, with a DD chest. It wasn't about being happy with how I looked, it was about back pain. Plastic surgery isn't always purely cosmetic.

Another friend is having rhinoplasy done on her 12 year old over the summer because of a SERIOUS major mis-shape due to an older injury. It is technically cosmetic, but the goal is to make her look like a normal person, not to make her look hot.

Look at motives before assuming that all plastic surgery for teens os wrong.

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If a teen is as butt ugly as miley cyrus they should have facial reconstructive surgery.

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Most of the cases are that mommy & daddy have lot's of money & their little spoiled princess can have whatever she want's.

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just stand up the the bullies. there's no excuses for plastic surgery just cus you're bullied. i only agree for those that were involved in accidents and iccendents that scar their face but plastic surgery over bullying is just stupid.

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Most Jewish children should be encouraged to get their big ugly noses fixed.

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Yes, there ARE crcumstances where plastic surgery on a teen should occur. My cousin ( who I grew up with as a sister) had
a birthmark across his entire forhead. Children at school, and
some ADULTS (???), would tease him un-mercifully about his
head. They would taunt him continually. At five he had had surgery
to remove the birthmark; but then it left him with a discolored
skin grafting and a sewn ridge around it ; thus making the teasing and taunting worse. Yes, even from ADULTS (???) and children.
As a baby he would scream and cry when he would see himself in a mirror. Thinking someone was after him.
So...at 15 years of age, he had plastic surgery that took away the sewn dark looking skin craft!!! God bless the surgeons that performed his being made into a different person!!! This man has since dedicated his life for our country...serving two hitches in Viet Nam...and still working to improve our military after his retirement from the Army. Without the plastic surgery he would not have achieved any of this.
Prior to the last plastic surgeries he would hide when anyone came to our home. When other boys wore crew tops, he wore bangs, to hide his forhead.
His original surgeon died before completing his head; but the one that completed it even put in blood vessels to change the pigment to a more natural color. With an undetechtable makeup coverage, my wonderful cousin GOT A CREW CUT!!!
God bless my cousin and the plastic surgeons who do a wonderful service like this!!! So...there ARE times when a teen deserves plastic surgery! NOT just for the sake of HAVING it; but for NEEDING it!!!

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Over 35 years ago my brother had "cosmetic" surgery to correct his ears that stuck way out. He was only 8 at he time. It was the best thing my parents ever did for him. I do not agree with cometic surgery because some young person is vain, but sometimes things need to be corrected - like braces for your teeth, ears etc.

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While I believe SOME cosmetic/corrective surgery might be necessary, it is absolutely ridiculous to compare a child getting braces to have SURGERY. Despite what this doctor encourages (don't tell them it is a fix-all blah blah) that is exactly what he is promoting! A child should NEVER have surgery just because of a little bullying. A child gets teased once and it's "Oh my god my nose is too big I need surgery!!" How about these therapy sessions teach self-love instead of well this is a risk and this is too but you still want the surgery? Ok sure! Surgery should never EVER be a remedy to bullying. I don't care if your nose is the size of Rhode Island or if your ears stick out. It is absolutely ridiculous. I have a large nose myself being Italian-American. I was teased. I got over it. We are losing all of our coping methods due to these quick fixes.

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MORE SEX CHANGE OPERATIONS ARE PERFORMED ON JEWS THAN ALL OTHER GROUPS OF PEOPLE COMBINED . fact !

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Oooh. This is a real stickler for me. I wouldn't get my teenager cosmetic surgery unless there was a defect or deformity which needed correction, or something which would improve my teen's health, like a breast reduction. But the reduction would only happen when my daughter was aroung 18 or so, and has stopped growing. Gee, if I had everything fixed I didn't like when I was a teen, I wouldn't look like me. In fact, nobody would look like themselves because nobody is happy with they way they are. Yes, I was a life-long member of the IBTC until the age of about 35. (Okay, it's Itty Bitty Titty Club). But even though I had no breasts, it was in my best interest to NOT get anything changed until the time was right for me - physically, emotionally, financially and for the right reason, which was... I wanted them.

Besides, no matter what I did or didn't like about myself, I'll never forget that little cutie -pie, Paul Bryant, who made me feel good all the time. He lived across the street, and whenever I was out on my driveway or walking past his house, he would peddle his little bicycle just as fast as he could out to the street and yell "Hubba, Hubba!" Then he would circle and go back up to his carport, turn around and peddle back again, just as fast as he could to the end of his driveway, and yell... you guessed it! Hubba, Hubba! He did it all the time, and over & over until I went inside, God love him. This has nothing to do with the article, but for some reason, it made me think back on it!

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Did anyone else notice the collage of different songs in the back ground....Last one...She's My Ride Home - Blue October!
Awesome...!!!

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whatever I did or didn't like about myself, I'll never forget that little cutie -pie, Paul Bryant,
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who made me feel good all the time. He lived across the street
and whenever I was out on my driveway or walking past his house

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