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Teen aesthetic surgery may eliminate bullying

Dustin Derrick , Lauren Crawford , Jim Sheridan , Randy Buckspan , Alexis Delgado , Sebastian Gualy , Diana Vo ,
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Markos Salisbury , Robert A. Ersek 2
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1 Cosmetic and Reconstructive Surgery, Summa Health System Akron, Akron, OH 44304, USA.
2 Cosmetic and Reconstructive Surgery, Personique Surgery Center, Austin, TX 78705, USA.
3 University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
4 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
5 San Marcos University, San Marcos, TX 78660, USA.
Correspondence to: Dr. Robert A. Ersek, Cosmetic and Reconstructive Surgery, Personique Surgery Center, Austin, TX 78705, USA. E-mail:
Bobersek@yahoo.com
How to cite this article: Derrick D, Crawford L, Sheridan J, Buckspan R, Delgado A, Gualy S, Vo D, Salisbury M, Ersek RA. Teen aesthetic surgery may
eliminate bullying. Plast Aesthet Res 2017;4:178-84.
ABSTRACT
Article history: The media has a large influence on what constitutes modern day beauty, as it suggests to
Received: 6 Sep 2017 susceptible young girls and boys what makes someone beautiful. The term “beautiful” is
Accepted: 22 Sep 2017 portrayed as curvy, thin, tall, with voluptuous hair, big eyes, large breasts, round buttocks, and
Published: 26 Oct 2017 full lips. Very few people in society naturally appear like this, and thus many people undergo
cosmetic surgery for this desired look. This article will examine the difference of opinions
Key words: regarding the exact age to consider aesthetic plastic surgery. Adolescence is frequently bullied
Teenage surgery, about any defect. The authors discuss some of these opinions and present three very unusual
bullying, cases where early surgery has been beneficial.
reconstructive,
aesthetic

INTRODUCTION for adolescences. Bullying may be the single most
common cause for teen suicide.
Anyone with a real or imagined physical defect such
as a crooked nose, asymmetrical face, small or large Aesthetic or cosmetic surgery was a natural outgrowth
breasts, or being “overweight” can be very sensitive of plastic reconstructive surgery that occurred following
to comments made by others. This is profoundly World War I and II, when medical advances such as
important to teenagers as their body changes and antibiotics and sterilization made it possible for people
everyone compares each other to everyone else. The with severe injuries to survive. They often required
media, movies, magazines and peers, add fuel to the reconstructive surgery to create a more normal
fire of desire for acceptance. appearing face, hands, and other body parts. Due to
the imbalance that was caused when only one side of
The development and ubiquity of “social media”, their body was reconstructed, it became aesthetically
has made ridicule and bullying, fast, easy and public necessary to operate on both sides in order to obtain
beyond a few peers. The effects can be devastating a balance. It is also noted that patients looked younger

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