Plastic Surgery Epidemic

One undeniable influence of the media and society's description of beauty is the overwhelming number of plastic surgeries that has been consistently and vastly increasing for the past few years. In today's society plastic surgery is perceived as a normal "daily" activity, it is  spoken almost as frequently as one proclaiming they are getting their nails done. Such procedures are exhibited as the average "norm;" this  nonchalant perception of such a health-threatening procedure exist nearly everywhere in today's society. For example, shows such as Bridalplasty, Nip Tuck, and Dr. 90210 focus primarily on the matter. TV networks have resorted to creating a competition which awards success with multiple plastic surgeries, exposing the actual real life of a plastic surgeon and the countless already-beautiful women that appear in his office daily in hopes of receiving one more surgery in the efforts to become "perfect," and finally, on the contrary, a television series that displays the  not-so-glamorous side of plastic surgery. Such shows promote mixed emotions as well as aspects of the topic, however, more series promote the life changing alteration rather than illustrate the negative aspects of it. A recent ASPS, American Society of Plastic Surgeons, study has proven that such reality television shows have a direct influence on patients to have surgery. From television, to the big screen and back the life threatening procedure of plastic surgery is being portrayed in ways of which we might now be aware, although there are few that display the dangers, there are far more that exhibit a sense of normality in the matter; if this outstanding imbalance of numbers do not change, we will soon be living amongst a world full what is commonly known as "plastics," is this what our world has come to? Or is it not too late to make a change?