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Plastic surgery, with its possible risk and complications, is one subject that most people look up to so seriously. But no matter how complex plastic surgery is, it is still interesting to go through some fun and amusing facts about cosmetic surgery way back hundreds of years up to the present time.
In early Renaissance, many plastic surgeries were done in barber shops.
In Nazi Germany, some forms of reconstructive surgery were mandated to enable the "too ugly" solder to become a "real" soldier. Benito Mussolini's (1880-1945) Italy also used plastic surgery to increase the performance of military officers, such as correcting drooping or baggy eyelids.
Cindy Jackson, born in Ohio United States was listed in the Guinness World record book for having had more cosmetic surgery procedures than anyone else in the world. Her record? Fifty of them to be exact with a price tag of $100,000.
American people spent $13.2 billion on plastic surgery in 2006.
Two-thirds of plastic surgery patients are repeat patients, and more than five million Americans may be addicted to plastic surgery. One example of such addiction, 48-year-old Hang Mioku was left disfigured after she injected her own face with cooking oil.
It was the World War II that ushered in plastic surgery techniques that included rebuilding entire limbs, extensive skin grafts, microsurgery, antibodies, and increased knowledge about tissue health.
When plastic surgery became popular during the Renaissance,plastic surgeons took skin grafts from various donors, such as a neighbor's pig, but were confused when the new nose would shrivel up and fall off. They concluded the flesh was "sympathetic," meaning that the graft died when its original owner died.
The first recorded "nose job" is found in ancient Indian Sanskrit texts (600 B.C.). Physicians would reconstruct noses by cutting skin from either the cheek or forehead, twisting the skin side out over a leaf of the appropriate size, and sewing the skin into place. Two polished wooden tubes would be inserted into the nostrils to keep the air passage open during healing.
Though cosmetic surgery is commonly used by adults and older people, there were still 2% of all plastic surgery patients who were teenagers age 13-19.
Breast augmentation is still the top cosmetic surgery procedure followed by liposuction.
Plastic surgery in men increased 17% compared to the percentage in the year 2006 and is expected to increase more in the years to come.
There is a book published by Big Tent Books, a new picture book by plastic surgeon Michael Salzhauer titled My Beautiful Mommy that explains to kids why mom is getting a flatter tummy.
