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May 28
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In today’s society we are brought up that looks are extremely important. You have to be skinny. You have to have the right hair, the body shape and do not forget the right nose job. The question at hand then is how young is too young to get a nose job?
With celebrities having plastic surgery over and over children and teenagers think that this is a hot trend. Should you have to be 15, 17 years old or should a rhinoplasty wait until after you have turned of legal age? We are fed with misconceptions that it may be okay to have a nose job at say 13 or even 14. However, are we actually mature enough to make this decision on our own at that young of an age.
It use to be that plastic surgeons would not do nose job surgery on anyone younger than 17 or 18 due to the fear the patients nose may still continue to grow due to their young age. Now, nose jobs are done on children in their early teens because it has been proven that the nose stops growing around the age of 13 or 14.
How young is too young to get a nose job is a difficult question to answer, because there is no definite answer. If a young child breaks his or her nose and needs the surgery then by all means do the nose job. The rhinoplasty would then be a medical necessity.
However, if a child is going through poor self-esteem or just wants a nose job because everyone is doing it, then it is probably time to rethink the rhinoplasty. A nose job may cause bigger issues in life than needing to look better. Plastic surgery is surgery all the same, the risks are there.