As previously discussed, South Korea has the highest per capita rates of plastic surgery in the world. We've seen plenty of smiley, radiant "after" photos, but artist Ji Yeo has taken "right after" pictures: Haunting photographs of women in recovery rooms, bruised, bandaged, wounded.

Let's agree to disagree with the WoW Report, since they're claiming that Beyoncé is "veering into Michael Jackson territory" with her nose. But can we all agree that it sucks when standards of beauty are completely unattainable without a scalpel? Whether it's in this country or another, whether it's a thinner nose or

There's a full-length mirror and a scale on every single floor of the all-girls high school where Julia Lurie works. She's an American teaching English in South Korea, the country with the highest per capita rate of plastic surgery in the world. One in five women in Seoul have undergone some kind of procedure. Most…

A woman presented herself in Dr. Allan Wu's office with a symptom the cosmetic surgeon had never before encountered: she heard a distinct clicking sound, "like a tiny castanet snapping shut," every time she opened her right eye. The eye was painful and swollen. When Wu operated, he found bone shards growing inside her…

A study published in Obstetrics & Gynecology, one of the first of its kind, has used the Internet to take plastic surgery websites' descriptions of hymenoplasty and similar procedures in the U.S. and the U.K. to task for their lack of clarity and... well, their scare tactics. Of the ten websites studied, vaginoplasty…

New research suggests that Botox isn't just good for paralyzing the facial muscles that allow humans to communicate unspeakable emotions and bridge the fathomless chasms that exist between ultimately forsaken individuals bound together in the loose and unsatisfying confederacy we call "society" — it may help patients…

This morning, the fourth hour of Today revolved around cosmetic procedures. Kathie Lee and Hoda were dressed in hospital gowns and hair-coverings. KLG got an eye lift on live TV; Hoda had her arm hair lasered off.

Cellulaze! Cellulaze is a revolution. A revelation. The procedure, which requires only one doctor's visit, has been approved by the FDA for treating cellulite — an actual long-lasting "fix" for the problem. Except, of course, if we're being completely honest, we have to admit: Cellulite isn't actually a problem.

When Brittani Niccole was 18 years old, she got a boob job. "I didn't have large breasts when I was younger, and all my friends did… I felt very self conscious about it," she says. The physician who performed the procedure was Dr. Michael Niccole, Brittani's dad.

If you stuffed your daughter's stocking with fattening peppermint candies and chocolate Santas this Christmas, you might want to reconsider whether you're really cut out for responsible parenting in light of the fact that Sarah Burge had the foresight to give her 7-year-old daughter the gift that will stave off any…