It’s Never Too Soon And Always Too Late…

… for plastic surgery for teenagers and tweens that is. And how much ever grown up wisdom we may pelt at them, they are bound to think that way. According to Dr. Joseph Fata, a plastic surgeon in Carmel, “Their opinions about their bodies are changing as quickly as their bodies are changing sometimes more quickly. And I think most important is many of them don’t really have an adult’s understanding of risk.”

In the world of plastic surgery risks may entail anything from nausea to a severe rash and could even result in a botched surgery and heart attack. Not to mention a teenage body that is still growing and reacting badly to implants and other body modifications.

After the U.S. and Brazil, Spain boasts of the highest number of people who have had a plastic surgery. Ten percent of this number consists of youngsters aged nineteen and younger.

Spanish provinces like that of Andalusia are thinking up of precautionary screening methods like a psychological analysis for teenagers before they are reviewed for plastic surgery. It would do well for the U.S. to adapt such methods to ensure healthy teenage growth.

The teenage years can be very trying for a parent and tough for a growing child and every effort has to be taken by the former to secure an understanding manner with which to deal with the ward. We understand this at the Plastic Surgery Institute of California and can help you deal with such an important issue.