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Derrick et al. Teen aesthetic surgery may eliminate bullying

in company. As a result, she was quite desperate to introvert because of low self-esteem, especially
have something done and had even mentioned the pertaining to his big legs, gynecomastia, and
thought of suicide. The patient discussed her hope of overweight body habitus. His father brought him in to
her father seeing her in a nice dress before he died of evaluate his lower extremities, as he was concerned
bladder cancer. the legs may become a chronic lymph edema or
permanent deformity.
To help her achieve her dreams and eliminate
humiliation, we did liposuction with 2 units of autologous Under valium and ketamine sedation, we performed
blood and removed 15 L (about 38 pounds) of liposuction to his legs, pelvis, abdomen, and chest.
subcutaneous fat (including 8 L of infiltration), followed After returning back to school, he obtained more
by 2 other liposuction procedures after waiting for friends, became athletic, a straight A student, and took
complete healing in 6 weeks. Additionally, we did a extra elective courses so he could graduate from high
breast augmentation, abdominoplasty, brachioplasty, school with a grade point average above a 4.0. He
and a thigh lift on the patient. has recently been accepted to a top university of his
choice.
Figure 2A shows the patient at just 12-year-old and
230 pounds, prior to any surgical intervention. Her DISCUSSION
menarche had begun at age ten so physiologically,
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she was mature. It is often stated by people like caplain in Friedman’s
article that teenagers are too young to make a decision
Figure 2B was taken just 5 months after all procedures about their appearance permanently. It perhaps would
and an astonishing 58-pound weight loss. Since then, be better to wait until they are fully mature, at ages 21
the patient continued her weight loss journey and through 25. Moreover, some believe that surgery is
weighed in at 152 pounds after a year. Her life has risky for young people. However, there is no evidence
become normalized, as she is enrolling in college as a for that rumor, as we do not hesitate to operate on
nursing student and has recently gotten married. infants with cleft lips at merely 10 weeks of age,
10 pounds of weight, and hemoglobin of 10 grams.
Patient 3 Otoplasties are usually performed before children go
Case 3 [Figure 3] is a 14-year-old boy who was to school to prevent them from being ridiculed for their
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overweight. He had very few friends and was an entire life .
A C E G I

B D F H J

Figure 3: A: Patient 3 at 14-year-old and 220 pounds; B: patient 3 one year later, post liposuction to his chest, abdomen, flanks, knees,
calves, and thighs; C: patient 3 prior to any surgical intervention; D: patient 3 one year post-op; E: side view of patient 3 prior to surgical
procedures; F: side view of patient 3 one year post-op; G: legs and calves of patient 3 prior to any surgical procedures; H: legs and calves
of patient 3 one year post-op; I: side view of chest and abdomen of patient 3 prior to all surgical procedures; J: side view of chest and
abdomen of patient 3 one year post-op
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