As far as I'm concerned, unless someone is severely disfigured or noticeably scarred, plastic surgery is by no means worth the expense, the risks, or the potential complications. The complications not only may involve pain, possible mortal danger, or eventual illness down the road. Also, if someone goes overboard by getting too much plastic surgery too often, their new body configuration could end up being disproportionate to their head or body parts which have not been subjected to renovations.
Why someone would go through with getting their stomach stapled is beyond me. Those staples have been known to dislodge, which has often caused internal bleeding or even death.
If someone goes overboard with plastic surgery, they could go from looking good to at least some people, to perhaps looking like the Bride of Frankenstein to everyone else.
I recently heard that adolescent and young adult males have been undergoing plastic surgery to make their pectoral muscles look artificially well-developed. It wouldn't surprise me at all if silicon bicep implants are next. As if steroids and electrical muscle stimulation were not bad enough. (to be cont'd)
[Originally appeared in Eastern Connecticut State University's Campus Lantern student newspaper in the early '90s and part of my unpublished manuscript "In Mediocrity We Trust... In Debt We Die" And Other Essays]
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