Plastic Surgery - Essay Example

Download file to see previous pages... Many may say that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder or that plastic surgery is there to enhance the appearance, but I feel as though it is beyond that and many have made it a mocker. Cosmetic surgery should only be for medical purposes or if seriously injured. The aim of the essay is to use different articles on the effects and reasons of the increasing practices of plastic and cosmetic surgery. The essay focusses mainly on, “The pitfalls of plastic surgery by Camille Paglia.” Paglia states, “plastic surgery is living sculpture: a triumph of modern medicine. As a revision of nature, cosmetic surgery symbolizes the conquest of biology by human free will. With new faces and bodies, people become their own works of art” (Paglia, 791). The statement illustrates that plastic surgery has changed the perception of beauty where the western woman has high regards when it comes to beauty since she was the first to hit entertainment industry hence women undergo plastic surgery to gain perfection. Later in her article, she argues on this perception since the process of plastic surgery is risk and one may end up turning from bad to worse if the surgery fails.
In the case of cosmetic surgery, “what neurological risks be there in the long term use of Botox a nonsurgical toxin injected subcutaneously to paralyze facial muscles and smooth out fallows and wrinkles,” (Paglia, 792) most of the people undergoing cosmetic surgery do not have a clue of the risks of overusing Botox. Before undergoing cosmetic surgery, it is important to identify the risks involved in the overuse of the drug since the drug has severe consequences and irreversible making people from failed cosmetic and plastic surgery lose their true beauty. ...Download file to see next pagesRead More