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This was marked by purifying a medical discipline since its inception, the suspicion: regardless of their first-and unsophisticated-application in the Napoleonic battlefields, cosmetic surgery, primarily confined to the nose, had quite a few suspicious applications .

First, was applied to syphilitic nose sunken and criminal offenders with partial amputation of the nose, which was not honored much fame surgery. Secondly, he served for eugenic purposes: getting rid of an Irish nose, black or Jewish, or, as time passed the broad-match bust to waist fine Latin Aryan ideal of beauty. In any case, gradually dissolving the old tradition that vanity was not reason enough for surgery.

The current situation certainly is very different, and reflects very different motivations. Holly Brubacher notes how, in some parts of the USA, and nobody knows what a woman of fifty-five years according to their natural development. Witness the popularity of the surgery.Spain is the first country in Europe and the fourth worldwide, since 2004, in amount of plastic surgeries performed, especially among those under age 21 who copan four in ten operations.

According to statistics from the Spanish Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, in 2006, there were 300,000 operations. Botox, commonly used by non-specialists, takes the cake with 14%. A year are placed also over fifty thousand breast implants. In places are more discreet interventions of rhinoplasty-nose-and collagen injections. Situated in a global perspective, aesthetic operations have quintupled in twenty years. And they continue to grow, with new features.

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