The Influence of Cosmetic Surgery on Young People: Risks, Trends, and Complications

Research by Expertise Group Cosmetic Surgery shows that young people who follow influencers who have had cosmetic surgery performed are more likely to have something done themselves. Influencers talk about their cosmetic experiences like it’s nothing. For example, actress Gaby Blaaser recently shared on Instagram that she was happy that she is going to ‘work on herself’ again. After her pregnancy, she immediately scheduled an appointment for botox and she is also considering a breast augmentation.

Although advertising for plastic surgery is not allowed on TikTok, things sometimes go wrong. For example, more and more videos are emerging of people with bandages around their heads. They hope their surgery will result in a jaw like Bella Hadid’s or Ariana Grande’s. The number of people between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five who were treated with botox and fillers has more than doubled in ten years, according to research. And the requests are getting more extreme. More and more non-certified companies are also entering the market that perform treatment for next to nothing, a development that entails an extra risk.

But even treatment with a certified doctor is not entirely without risk. Lip fillers, for example, can cause blisters on the lip due to the often large amounts of filler. Monica Geuze already had her lip fillers removed, in a vlog she said that it seemed as if the agent had started to accumulate. Research by EenVandaag shows that more than half of the respondents think that cutting into a healthy body, just to look nicer, should be possible. In 2018 that was still 32%. However, men are much more negative about plastic surgery than women.

For women considering surgery, breast augmentation or reduction was number one (52%), followed by fillers (26%) and botox (25%). Despite possible complications, we find cosmetic procedures increasingly normal.

“The increase in extreme forms of cosmetic surgery among young patients is alarming. Unfortunately, anyone who has studied medicine is allowed to inject injectables without specialist training. We see more and more complications: the more filler in the lips, the greater the risk that you will later walk around with sagging and deformed lips. If a filler is injected into the wrong blood vessel, the tissue will die. In the worst case, you can go blind. As a plastic surgeon you know the risks and then the chance of complications after treatment is very low. I regularly reject a patient, for example if an eighteen-year-old wants to go from a C cup to an F cup. In ten years things will droop and the skin will stretch.”

Jamie Vrolijk-Van Beekum, experience expert: “Soon after placing my breast prosthesis I felt a bump. The doctors indicated that it was scar tissue. In the years that followed, more and more of these bumps appeared and eventually I even felt a whole edge. The prosthesis turned out to be twisted and gigantic encapsulated. You can now see the bumps, the edge and the prosthesis itself and I often have pain. I was never told this could happen. They just said that this prosthesis could not leak and that there were some general risks, such as getting a wound that could become infected. That it could also encapsulate, rotate or that I could get bumps, I didn’t hear anything about that. I think I would have thought about it five times if I had known beforehand, because it’s just ugly.”

Esther van Gent, plastic surgery consultant at FlexClinics: “Liposuction, tummy tucks and breast augmentations are especially popular with us. Breast prostheses have often been in the news negatively, so many women are now looking for an alternative. Lipofilling is often considered, filling the breasts with their own fat that is removed by means of liposuction. Liposuction is also often performed in combination with a tummy tuck to shape the body into an hourglass figure. When you open Instagram, you see a lot of – edited – photos passing by and people want to look just as sleek. It also strikes me that more stomach reductions are being performed than a few years ago. That automatically leads to more tummy tucks and other skin corrections, because the skin starts to droop due to such a reduction.”

This report comes from Flair 33-2023. You can read more of these kinds of stories in Flair every week.

Amy van de WielGetty ImagesAugust 19, 2023, 12:00

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