By Sahar Abushaheen
THE addiction of most famous people to plastic surgery and its exposure through the social media networking sites has changed the concept of beauty and its acceptable criteria. A young man who watches beautiful female film stars on the big screen would have great expectations about his bride and his mother would face difficulty to translate his dream into reality.
A modern girl will also have another set of expectations and may reject a proposal if the man’s facial complexion does not match her favorite Turkish actor. Conducting plastic surgery to make outward appearance more attractive is causing hell of a time to others.
Makkah Arabic daily recently published a report on the marriage of 111,000 Saudi women, aged 34 and above. In that report, a plastic surgery expert said most women who have crossed 30 as well as divorcees undergo such surgeries to enhance their look and luck.
Statistics published by the Health Ministry in 2015 support this trend. The ministry said a total of 50,297 plastic surgeries took place in the various health sectors during the year.
Of these operations 20,974 took place at government hospitals, which is higher than the number of urological surgeries or heart operations in the same year. Private hospitals conducted 20,723 operations while public hospitals that do not come under the Health Ministry performed 8,600 plastic surgeries.
The Health Ministry hospitals have conducted the largest number of plastic surgeries and we would like to know its justification. Were the surgeries essential or just a waste or money? The simplest operation will cost SR10,000 and this means the government hospitals have spent a total of SR295.74 million on this matter while private hospitals have made a profit of SR207.23 million within a year.
It is the right of every girl to feel good and beautiful and there is nothing wrong in undergoing such operations if she is not happy with her shape and plastic surgery was essential to improve her facial complexion and appearance. We cannot advice a girl whose nose is flat or lacks some of the visible female features or having other natural defects not to do such surgeries.
But before going to the hospital for plastic surgery and withdrawing money from bank for the purpose, we have to think a million times whether such an expensive operation was essential? What changes it will bring in? Who is the best doctor available in the city to conduct such an operation? Will physical exercises help us remove excess weight, fat and tension?
We should also think about possible complications and side effects and how to deal with them? Proper planning will help us from falling victim to “slaughterers” who would disfigure our body rather than enhancing its beauty. Sometimes we may even get out of hospitals without having certain organs. We have read the case of a poor girl who lost her organs recently following a plastic surgery. She then ended up seeking to have two hands after she was dreaming to become Cinderella.
