{"id":776,"date":"2013-01-23T23:05:38","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T23:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikemalonedds.com\/blog1\/?p=776"},"modified":"2019-08-07T19:40:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T19:40:33","slug":"plastic-surgery-by-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.camelliadds.com\/blog1\/plastic-surgery-by-the-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Plastic Surgery by the Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You would think America would top this list released by The Economist based on a report from the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery.\u00a0 The U.S. is actually ranked number six in the world for the highest number of plastic surgery procedures.<\/p>\n

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This is because the numbers are reported based on population size.\u00a0 In reality, Americans did<\/em> have the highest number of cosmetic surgery operations, totaling 3.3 million in 2010.\u00a0 Taking in population size however, we are not<\/em> the country with the most willing citizens to go under the knife.<\/p>\n

South Korea in fact outranks all other countries for the most plastic surgery according to it\u2019s population size: one in five women elect to have a procedure every year.\u00a0 It\u2019s become an obsession in the country<\/a>, and one English teacher working in South Korea can vouch for it.\u00a0 In her school, full-length mirrors and scales are ubiquitous in the all-girls high school where she works.\u00a0 Disturbingly enough, it is common for teenage girls to get a procedure done.\u00a0 These high school students assert that they elect to have surgery because of the fact that it is expected to include a photo with university and job applications in the South Korea.\u00a0 One student states that if a university or employer is deciding between two or three candidates they will go for the \u2018prettier one.\u2019<\/p>\n

But, isn\u2019t \u2018prettiness\u2019 objective?\u00a0 Well, it depends where you live.\u00a0 Beauty is defined differently across countries and cultures.\u00a0 I would argue there is an exception here in the United States: in the melting-pot culture of many American cities, it would be difficult to amass a group together who agree unanimously on what the defining features are of a\u00a0 \u2018beautiful\u2019 person.\u00a0 In other countries?\u00a0 Not so much.<\/p>\n

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Based on the chart in The Economist<\/a>, it is evident the demands made to the surgeon reflect what different cultures regard as beautiful.\u00a0 In Brazil for example, there are seven times more buttocks operations than the overall average of the top-ranked 25 countries in the world, and five times more vaginal rejuvenations.\u00a0 In Greece, men get ten times more genital enlargements than the overall average.<\/p>\n

In South Korea, the English teacher asked her students to describe a beautiful woman.\u00a0 The answer was uniform: big eyes, thin, tall, B cup.\u00a0 This tends to be consistent if one looks at before and after pictures on this Tumblr site called Korean Plastic Surgery<\/a>.\u00a0 Their eyes are bigger; noses are thinner and narrower, usually with an added bridge.\u00a0 If the jaw line was previously square, it is now shaved down, transforming the entire visage into a smaller and more delicate V-shape.\u00a0 I have to say, the thought of shaving down the bone of your face enough to restructure your entire appearance is disturbing enough to turn me away from cosmetic surgery forever.<\/p>\n

The scariest part of this is how similar<\/em> all the women look after surgery.\u00a0 Perhaps it is hard for me as an American to understand a culture that embraces physical conformity when I come from a culture that strives to be different, and even \u2018stand out\u2019 from one another.\u00a0 And reading different comments from Korean women on the Tumblr, I\u2019m not even sure what to believe.\u00a0 Some women claim they undergo eyelid surgery to achieve more \u2018Western\u2019 looking eyes\u2014the most popular cosmetic procedure in South Korea.\u00a0 Other women claim that they find foreigners beautiful, but that\u2019s not why they want to enhance their beauty by making themselves appear bug-eyed.<\/p>\n

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I understand the want of young people to jump on the bandwagon in regards to following certain trends.\u00a0 But when the fad involves a scalpel and anesthesia, I believe the parents need to intervene in their teenager\u2019s decisions.\u00a0 That is, unless the parents are getting their jaw bones shaved down too.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Mike Malone<\/a>\u00a0and his\u00a0team<\/a>\u00a0practice expert cosmetic dentistry in Lafayette, LA. Dr. Malone is the former president and current accredited member of the\u00a0American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry<\/a>. He\u00a0is also the official Cosmetic Dentist of the Miss Louisiana USA and Miss Louisiana Teen USA pageants. Check out his\u00a0website<\/a>\u00a0for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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