WHY THE DEMAND FOR PLASTIC SURGERIES IS STILL BOOMING DESPITE AN ONGOING PANDEMIC

Plastic Surgery is a pretty common thing nowadays as everyone wants to look young and beautiful or different than what they are naturally born with. Lips, cheeks, jawline, or necks are the areas that are treated the most.
Though plastic surgery makes one beautiful as natural facial features are tried to be changed, many after-effects also follow these surgeries. Some people try to change their faces completely as they are not satisfied with their natural features. The two most famous Plastic Surgeries are Rhinoplasty and Botox.

Who Opts For Plastic Surgery?

Many women, actresses, models, or even men from different fields, opt for plastic surgeries to enhance their facial features.
Late Michael Jackson, the world-renowned singer, went through plastic surgery several times. He was born with a dark color, bold facial features resembling his father. According to news and reports, Michael Jackson had a tough childhood time with his father.
This negative experience provoked him to change his appearance with zero resemblance to his father. Michael Jackson went under the knife so many times that it resulted in a complete alteration of all of his features, his skin color, and even his hair also.

The Trend Of Plastic Surgery During COVID Outbreak:

Amid COVID 19, the trend graph of this Plastic Surgery went very high. Doctors and surgeons called this period a ‘Zoom Boom’ period. Many doctors claim that when the lockdown was implemented, they started worrying whether they would be able to continue their profession of Surgery or not, as people were now staying at home mostly due to this pandemic. Still, the reality was the opposite of this. People still wanted to visit their cosmetic surgeons while taking all precautionary measures.
A recent survey that the American Society of Plastic Surgeons conducted found that there is an increase of 64% in these procedures amid COVID 19. Surprising, isn’t it?
Treatments requiring only injections are the most demanded ones as they are quick and require minimum contact. Though the prices are very high for these treatments, people still want to go for these. According to a survey in 2018, it is estimated that Americans spent about 16.6 billion Dollars (12.76£), out of which 8000 $ (6,151£) is spent on facelift surgeries.
Asian countries, including Pakistan and India, are not behind when it comes to the trend of these procedures of Cosmetic Surgery and the most common procedures are nose surgeries, Botox, and lips fillers. You may not know, but there are very competent cosmetic surgeons in Pakistan.

Types Of Plastic Surgery Procedures:

There are two types of plastic surgery procedures;
• Invasive Procedures such as Breast Augmentation, Liposuction, Rhinoplasty, and Facelift.
• Non-invasive procedures, e.g., Skin Fillers. or Botox
Now amid this pandemic, people go for non-invasive procedures mostly, but some opt for invasive procedures as well.

Reasons For Increase In Demand For Plastic Surgery :

1. More Screen Time:

During the pandemic lockdown worldwide, more people spend more time in front of the screen. As a result, there has been seen a trend of people comparing themselves with people on TV. This has led to a behavior where they feel that they have a faulty appearance or lack something in their faces.

They feel the need for changes in their faces, which is only possible with the help of cosmetic surgery. This ‘work from home’ has caused a tremendous surge in the demand for Plastic or Cosmetic Surgeries. People always wanted to enhance their faces, which look good in front of the camera. Surgeons and doctors observed an increasing demand for ‘jawline contouring’ and ‘neck rejuvenation.’

These two features are most visible in front of the cameras. This trend is more common in women, but men are also adopting cosmetic Surgery, especially ‘hair transplants.’ This behavior has been linked to Zoom meetings, where a person looking at him/herself in the camera and other people in the meeting compare themselves with others.

This is one of the major causes of the increase in the demands of Plastic Surgeries as they want to appear better than others, and this trend is only increasing all over the world.

2. Snapchat/Selfie Dysmorphia:

The involvement of Social Media in our lives has good and bad effects on the people around us and us. During the lockdown, people are spending quite a lot of time surfing on Social Media. Women mostly look at other women and search their pictures on Snapchat or Instagram, idealize them, and want to look like them a lot. They try to dress like them as well as look-alike them also.

Similarly, now most people take ‘selfies’ for Social Media and want to look perfect in every selfie. Every time they snap a selfie of themselves, they find any flaw in their body. This ‘Selfie Dysmorphia’ is the same for Snapchat.

This craze of selfies and looking beautiful went so far that most people are now opting for cosmetic surgeries. Many think that 95% of their selfies is their face; so they want to make sure it’s photo-worthy!

3. Lockdown Effects:

As people during lockdown have to stay at home and do nothing, they started focusing on their bodies more and more as they have ample time to look at themselves. People were away from jobs, and all the work in front of laptops and cameras, the focus and light of some devices, enhanced any facial feature and subdued the other.

All this lack of light or focus made people feel that they have problems with their faces or skin color. Another factor that promoted cosmetic surgeries during lockdown is that people get ample time to heal and recover from the after-effects of Surgery without contacting anybody outside the home.

Final Verdict:

This comes to the bottom line that the more people stayed at home during the lockdown, the more they looked at their faces, and more they wanted to alter their facial features so that they can look more beautiful than others.
Social media is the blamable factor here for people going under the knife. Let’s see where this trend goes in the coming times.

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