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Friday, October, 23, 2009

Statistics On Plastic Surgery

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A Message from your T.V.: Go Plastic, or Go Home

By Sue Chung Health Expert

There are so many shows that feature plastic surgery these days. Do you think they encourage people to get more plastic surgery?

 

While I can't say - and I doubt that anyone can say - that shows revolving around plastic surgery directly spur people toward cosmetic alterations, there are some interesting studies that may highlight society's growing plastic surgery consumption both on and off the small screen.

 

A study at Yale University's plastic surgery clinic asked a group of potential patient...

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Expert & Community Posts

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A Message from your T.V.: Go Plastic, or Go Home
By Sue Chung , Health Expert

There are so many shows that feature plastic surgery these days. Do you think they encourage people... Read more »

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Laura Zigman Meets Her Breast Surgeon and Becomes a Bobble-Head Toy
By Laura Zigman , Health Expert

...oncology and biology and genetics and surgery and plastic surgery and statistics and... Read more »

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Study Uncovers Link Between Plastic Surgery and Mental Illness
By Kimberly Tyler , Health Expert

A recently published study in the Annals of Plastic Surgery reports that women who undergo... Read more »

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Should I Get a Mommy Makeover?
By Sue Chung , Health Expert

...generations who lived without the benefit (or curse) of plastic surgery. And while mommy... Read more »

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Makeover Shows Increase Body Anxiety
By Jerry Kennard , Health Expert

...cosmetic surgery and related procedures.   Aesthetic plastic surgery is big business. Since... Read more »

Health Guide

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...in infants. American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Practice and Ambulatory Medicine, Section on Plastic Surgery and Section on Neurological Surgery. Pediatrics. 2003; 112(1 Pt 1): 199-202. Read more »
Liposuction Lessons
...are terribly resistant to metabolism. You can't burn them off," says Richard D'Amico, M.D., chief of plastic surgery at Englewood Hospital in Englewood, New Jersey, and assistant clinical... Read more »
The Obsession with Breasts and Body Image
...enlargements are performed each year in the US. This surgery is second only to liposuction as the most common plastic surgery in America. According to Dr. Michael Kulick, “Breast augmentation is... Read more »
The Penis: Everything You Need to Know
...VI: Yes. You know, it's also very disfiguring. I've seen photographs of people that have had to have plastic surgery to make them look normal again. It's an ugly looking scar, and the scrotum can... Read more »
Plastic Surgery for Migraines?
...Krusz. Teri Robert. August 3, 2009. 4 Montgomery, Allie. "Could Migraine Pain be Permanently Erased by Plastic Surgery?" HealthNews.com. August 3, 2009. 5 Staff Reporter. "Cosmetic surgery may... Read more »

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Hip Replacement Surgery -- Hip Surgery due to arthritis

See diagrams of hip replacment surgery and an explanation of hip surgery works... Read more »

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