Plastic Surgery Among Teen Girls On The Rise

In the past the idea of plastic surgery used to be the domain of men and women who had reached middle age almost exclusivly but not anymore it seems. In a society where more and more one's appearance counts for more even girls as young as 15 are expressing an interest in having a nip or a tuck in order to correct some real or imagined imperfection in their bodies. According to the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery the number of patients for these procedures who are in their teen years has gone up sharply in the last year. They also report that usually the patient is female but there have been males as well and that the cosmetic procedures that are the most in demand are breast augmentation and liposuction. In 2007 a total of 7882 of these surgeries were performed on American Teenagers. That total represents a 55% increase from 2006. A total of 47% of these were performed merely for aesthetic preference. Usually they were breast enlargements. The remaining percentage were performed to correct deformaties that existed or to correct asymmetries.