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Paying someone to edit your face like it's a Google Doc.
means Surgery performed to reshape or repair the body, whether to fix damage, correct function, or change appearance by choice.
from 'Plastic' here has nothing to do with Tupperware — it comes from Greek 'plastikos,' meaning 'able to be molded or shaped,' from 'plassein,' 'to mold.' The term predates synthetic plastic material by over a century; surgeons were 'plasticizing' flesh — shaping it like clay — long before the word got stolen by Bakelite and shopping bags.
- name origin
- plastic means moldable here, not the material
- oldest technique
- nose jobs date back to ancient india, 600 BC
- biggest demand spike
- zoom calls caused a facelift boom in 2020
- most requested
- nose and breast procedures top global rankings yearly