? Some of them committed suicide.The March 8 issue of the British Medical Journal reports of a study conducted on 3,500 Swedish women who received breast implants between 1965 and 1993. The research particularly studied the number of deaths in the subject group.
It was expected that about 59 of the women would have died by this time. The researchers were surprised to find that 85 women had died, and that 15 of them had committed suicide.
The researchers concluded that people who seek plastic surgery
may have deep psychological issues that they want to resolve, and that these people may see plastic surgery as one way of resolving issues of, say, self-esteem.One of the study's authors said, "We think a plastic surgeon should always keep in mind that some women ... who ask for plastic surgery may have a different problem."
Plastic surgery
can be life-enhancing if you do it to look and feel better, but not to change your life overnight.Read more...
