Research paper (Heejin Kim)

1. Purpose: To give some suggestions and proper way to people who want to get plastic surgery.
2. Audience: everyone
3. Thesis statement: these days, the number of people who get plastic surgery is increasing dramatically. However, it causes various negative or positive effects to people. So we should find proper way to reduce the negative problem.
4. Structure
a. Introduction about the definition and history of plastic surgery.
- Plastic surgery is “the practice of performing operations to repair or replace skin which has been damaged, or to improve people’s appearance.” (electronic dictionary)
- Actual condition of plastic surgery in the world by using statistic.
① In 1992, patients who get plastic surgery are 412,901, but in 2002, it increases to 1,917,139.
② 2008 top cosmetic procedures (part of body preference) – by age group.
45% 35-50 4.6 million Liposuction Botox
26% 51-64 2.7 million Eyelid surgery Botox
22% 19-34 2.2 million Breast augmentation Laser hair removal
6% 65 and over 634,667 Eyelid surgery Botox
2% 18 and under 160,283 Rhinoplasty Laser hair removal
b. The reasons why do people get plastic surgery.
- To attract people, for career, for beauty, desire to look better than neighbors do.
c. Positive effects for this issue
- Surgery not only enhances your physical appearance it also does a lot for your sense of worth. Cosmetic surgery does wonders for peoples self confidence and self esteem.
- Some interview or cases of people who get plastic surgery and satisfied with it.
d. Negative effects for this issue
- Risk or side effects; headaches, nausea and prolonged pain, inflammation surrounding the area of the body where the procedure was done
- High expense
- Emotional Effects: “While they go under the knife to fix a problem they see on the outside, this sometimes only serves as a bandage on the larger problem. After the surgery they continue to suffer from a body image distortion.”
- Some cases of people who get plastic surgery, but it has a reverse effect on them.
e. A way to reduce scars from plastic surgery procedures unveiled
- A lot of this self-consciousness goes away with time. Ask yourself if you're considering plastic surgery because you want it for yourself or whether it's to please someone else.
- Getting in good shape through appropriate weight control and exercise can do great things for a person's looks without surgery. It's never a good idea to choose plastic surgery as a first option for something like weight loss that can be corrected in a nonsurgical manner.
f. Conclusion
As the trend has changed to beautiful physical appearance, lots of people want to get plastic surgery and consider it very seriously to fix their body or face to be beautiful. It sometimes involves lots of risks to people but no one can say to get plastic surgery is bad for people. Because it provides people who are not satisfied with their appearances or suffered from getting stress due to physical complex to have self-confidence. So we should know what the proper way is and find what kind of method do we overcome our complex instead of getting plastic surgery.