"For someone like you, who at your young age is already developing those lines, I think Botox would be reasonable," said Dr. Heidi Waldorf, director of laser and cosmetic dermatology at Mount Sinai, referring to the area between my brows. "Clearly you are a squinter or a squisher."

See, ladies? These days, we're washed up old hags before we hit 30! But that's nothing compared to the poor teens who are obsessed with getting labiaplasties because they think their junk is weird or inadequate. Time reports that, on the sex ed website Scarleteen, teens are "commiserating" about their labia, writing things like "i REALLY h8 mine! They hang really REALLY low and r SO long!" According to Time, the women of the New View Campaign, who protested Monday in New York outside the New York City's Manhattan Center for Vaginal Surgery, want those teens to know that genitals are like snowflakes: each one is different and beautiful! They're protesting labiaplasties and other vaginal cosmetic surgeries by wearing giant cloth vulva costumes because as NYU sexologist and New View leader Leonore Tiefer says, "Promoting a very narrow definition of what women's genitals ought to look like — even for those women who don't want surgery, it harms them."

Botox - At Age 26? New York Doctors Weigh In [NYDN]
Plastic Surgery Below the Belt [Time]

Zenn also talks about how difficult it was to get breast cancer patients covered by insurance for reconstruction — same thing for children born with congenital deformities. So where should insurance companies draw the line? When Is a "deviated septum" an actual deviated septum and not just what people claim when covering up their frivolous rhinoplasties?

Your Plastic Surgery Questions, Answered [Freakonomics — NYT]
Americans Putting Up The Dough For Plastic Surgery [Houston Chronicle]

Unfortunately, the Archives of Surgery is reporting that infection at the site of incision happens to one in 20 patients — male or female — who undergo breast surgery, so guys enjoying their new tits had better watch out because infection leads to higher hospital costs. As for undo-plasty, costs vary but patients seem to gain a sense of contentment afterward. The Tribune interviewed 40-year-old Deborah Dunn, who got a nose job to fix a bump from a childhood injury. Post-procedure, "Every time I saw myself, I wanted to punch myself in the nose to make it all go away," she says. Doctors have reconstructed her nose to be more like the old one and Dunn admits, "I feel like I have myself back." But seriously, there is no ⌘-Z in life: Isn't the ultimate undo-plasty not to go under the knife in the first place?

After Plastic Surgeries, More Do An About-Face [Chicago Tribune]
Pectoral Implants Gaining Popularity [UPI]
Breast Surgery-Infection Rate Is 5.3% [Wall Street Journal]