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Question: In pursuit of perfection, more girls gounder the knife
The girl's 40-something parents are part of a tide of affluent baby
boomers who are being tucked, peeled and augmented as never before. But it is the
teen-age girls now flocking to the suites of plastic surgeons from Park Avenue to Beverly
Hills who pose an ethical problem for doctors who must decide whether to operate on
patients who are too young to vote, but old enough to feel social pressures to be
physically perfect.
What's your opinions?
Answer: hese days, more controversial procedures -- like breast augmentation,
liposuction and tummy tucks -- are gaining popularity in this
impressionable age
group. These procedures, among two dozen available, can range in cost
from $2,000
for liposuction to $5,000 for a tummy tuck.
In 1992, there were 5,519 nose jobs among teen-agers, 3,024 ear
operations, 978 breast
implants, 472 liposuctions and no tummy tucks. Four years later, nose
jobs were down
to 4,313 and ear pinnings to 2,470. But breast augmentations were up to
1,172,
liposuctions increased to 788 and tummy tucks to 130. And many more
adolescents
seeking these newer procedures were turned away by doctors who say they
rarely
perform them in anyone under 18.
Stalling is a popular tactic among doctors, who count on the fact that
teen-agers are
by definition mercurial.
Dr. Christopher Nanni, for one, set out to dissuade an overweight girl
who came to
him recently after many failed attempts at diet and exercise. She was
16 years old and
5 feet 3 inches tall, and weighed 185 pounds. Her mother, divorced and
struggling on
a secretary's salary, was not enthusiastic about either the costs or
the risks of
liposuction.
Nanni put the girl on a sensible diet and encouraged her mother to buy
a treadmill.
Come back in a year or two, he told them. If liposuction seemed
appropriate then, he
would do the procedure, at a big discount.
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