Here's a disturbing trend: Between 1996 and 20... ...of teenagers aged 13-19 having elective cosmetic surgery has increased by 548% - from around 14,000 proced... ...,841 last year, according to American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). The vast majority of these surge... ...lf-esteem. The ASPS says that...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/10/14/the-teenage-plastic-surgery-boom/
There are lots of crazy products for the over-the-... ...iest (and saddest) has to be the new trend of pet plastic surgery . Droopy eyes and wrinkly coats are character attr... ...lth reason to do so. Sure, sometimes a pet needs surgery to repair a medical condition, but the big money...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/25/plastic-surgery-for-pets/
Gaspare Tagliacozzi, professor of surgery at the University of Bologna in Italy, published... ...titled De Curtorum Chirurgia Per Insitionem (The Surgery of Defects by Implantations) in 1597. It describe... ...d to repair faces damaged by war -in other words, plastic surgery ....
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/03/16th-century-rhinoplasty/
Here in LA, a skeletonized Oscar-esque statue... ...r, but clearly there’s a message behind it. Has plastic surgery taken over Hollywood? The world? Is there anythin... ...ollywood? The world? Is there anything wrong with plastic surgery ? (via Los Anjealous.)
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/03/14/skeletonized-oscar/
Three years ago, Gail blogged about a bra implante... ...ast tissue to take the place of an external bra. Plastic surgeons have greatly developed this idea since t... ...that time. So far, 600 women have undergone the surgery :
Conceived by South African plastic surgeons a...
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/08/surgically-implantable-bra/