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This Article was originally published on -  https://novafaces.com/ “I’m a pretty small person, but I’d always had these little pockets of fat on my stomach,” she says. So when a friend raved about a minimally invasive treatment designed to target so-called stubborn areas, she decided to give it a whirl as a birthday present to herself — a flatter belly and the confidence to bare her midriff with abandon. But the procedure left her covering up more than ever before. “Immediately after taking the bandage off, I noticed there was a problem,” says Kate. “There was this dent in a diagonal line across my stomach.” Millions of people in the U.S. undergo a cosmetic procedure each year. In 2020, roughly 2.3 million plastic surgeries and 13.3 million minimally invasive, nonsurgical treatments, like Kate’s, were performed, according to data from the  American Society of Plastic Surgeons . Less common is Kate’s poor outcome. A  2018 retrospective  published in  Plastic and ...

  For years,  Bella Hadid  denied she’d had  plastic surgery.  But now, she’s changing her tune and speaking about a cosmetic procedure she regrets: the  nose job she got when she was 14.  “I wish I had kept the nose of my ancestors,” Hadid  told Vogue  last week. She’s the daughter of Dutch-born former “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star Yolanda Hadid and Palestinian real estate developer Mohamed Hadid. “I think I would have grown into it.” And it’s not uncommon for teens to  get cosmetic procedures . According to the  American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons,  nearly 230,000 cosmetic surgeries were performed on teens ages 13-19 in 2017, and some as young as 15 are even  documenting their plastic surgeries on social media.  Read full Article-  https://novafaces.com/news/bella-hadid-regrets-getting-a-nose-job-at-14-how-young-is-too-you...

  Cellphone “selfies” distort facial features, an effect that may be driving an uptick in requests for plastic surgery, UT Southwestern researchers show in a new study. The findings, reported in  Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery , highlight an unexpected consequence of social media and the need for plastic surgeons to discuss this phenomenon with their patients. “If young people are using selfies as their only guide, they may be coming to plastic surgeons to fix problems that don’t exist except in the world of social media,” said study leader Bardia Amirlak, M.D., Associate Professor of Plastic Surgery at UT Southwestern. Dr. Amirlak explained that patients increasingly use photographs they’ve taken with a smartphone camera to discuss their goals with a plastic surgeon. There’s a documented relationship, he added, between the increase in selfie photographs and an increase in requests for rhinoplasty — or surgery to alter the appearance of the nose — particularly among youn...