Do-it-yourself plastic surgery on the rise

• Thursday July 19, 2007 | Posted in: Plastic Surgery Procedures

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  It looks like people are getting so desperate with they way they look. Not only are they going to cheap plastic surgery clinics with incompetent surgeons, they are actually attempting surgery on themselves.

  Some people have gone to the extreme. Reports say that there are people who have glued back their ears, tried to iron the wrinkles off their face, and even cut open their tummies.

  A psychologist at the celebrity Priority Hospital in London, Dr. David Veale, said that the rise of DIY cosmetic surgery was being driven by too much fascination with movie stars and good looks.

  "I have seen desperate people in the past who have glued their ears back and cut into their stomach in a bid to be thin. The worst case I am aware of is a man who did a DIY nose job. He pushed a chisel up his nose and then replaced the cartilage he had taken off with a chicken bone. These are very extreme cases but they do happen. Some people are very, very desperate and their image of themselves is totally distorted,” Veale said.

  Veale also stressed that those who can’t afford to go to a surgeon are the ones often practicing DIY plastic surgery and that it is very dangerous. He also warned that desperate people - especially women - were pressured with the increase focus on beauty.

  "DIY cosmetic surgery is used by the most depressed and the most desperate of people," Veale added. He then urged plastic surgeons to make greater use of psychologists to ensure patients with severe body-image disorders do not undergo unnecessary operations.

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