Teen plastic surgery may or may not be on the rise — this piece doesn’t exactly say. But the fact that roughly 3,000 girls under 18 had breast augmentations last year is pretty interesting:
Are parents really saying yes so teens won’t go behind their backs? Or is it just becoming more normalized in our culture? (ABC News)
Here’s an excerpt from the ABC article:
Most teens love the mirror, spending hours in front of it experimenting with hairstyles, makeup and fashion. But thousands of them are so deeply dissatisfied by what they see each year that they try to permanently change the image reflected in the glass; through plastic surgery.
“I have really low self-esteem,” Caitlin Clemons, 18, said in the days before her breast augmentation surgery.
Watching her mother and sister gain confidence after undergoing their own breast enlargements convinced the Galveston, Texas, woman that the surgery could do the same for her.
“Once I saw how happy she was, I knew I could be that happy,” Clemons said of her sister. “I’ll have confidence. It definitely made me want the surgery more. Once my mother got hers and I saw it can be done, it really clicked in my mind that I can do this.”
See the full article HERE.
Breast augmentation procedures for women under 18 should be as less invasive as possible and this can be done easily by the good doctors in Scottsdale
The prices of breast implants are lower than a few years ago so that is the reason why these procedures are in frequency even amongst young women