The Safe and Sane Guide to Teenage Plastic Surgery
Author(s): Frederick N. Lukash (Author)
Publisher: BenBella Books
Publication Date: November 2, 2010
Language: English
Print length: 248 pages
ISBN-10: 1935618091
ISBN-13: 9781935618096
Book Description
The Safe and Sane Guide to Teenage Plastic Surgery, by Dr. Frederick N. Lukash, is the only complete guide to this ever-expanding phenomenon. Written by the American Society of Plastic Surgerys acknowledged expert and official media spokesperson on pediatric and adolescent plastic surgery, this book answers those tough questions parents of potential teenage plastic surgery candidates have: Will surgery increase their child’s self-esteem and help them fit in better? Or is it a dangerously easy solution to deeper issues? When is surgery right, and when is it not?
Interviewed in
The New York Times and featured on Discovery Health among many other media outlets, Lukash guides families through every step of the process, from finding the perfect-fit doctor and applying for medical insurance to surgery and finally to recovery and a changed life. A virtual, free consultation with a renowned expert in the field, the book doesn’t just offer easy solutions to teen’s body-image problems but helps parents understand the emotional, psychological and social dilemmas involved.
Complete with action plans, real-life stories and pictures,
The Safe and Sane Guide to Teenage Plastic Surgery offers advice on what can, can’t and shouldn’t be doneand on how to spot the doctors who will exploit a teen’s fragile sense of self-esteem as well as his or her parent’s pocketbook. Most important, Lukash provides a useful red light/yellow light/green light guide for considering teen plastic surgery.
In this useful guide to cosmetic surgery for teens, the author, a plastic surgeon, makes a compelling case for performing procedures on adolescents who just want to feel “normal.” He offers anonymous real-life case studies so readers can think about whether they’d say yes to the knife for a 14-year-old boy whose ears stuck out, a 15-year-old boy who developed breasts, a 14-year-old girl whose breasts were asymmetrical, or an 18-year-old girl whose skin sagged after she lost 147 pounds. In most cases, Lukash seems unabashedly pro-surgery. When his own teen daughters asked for nose jobs, he consented. Oddly, for a “safe and sane” guide, Lukash writes that he will do surgery on the outer lips of teens’ vaginas if “there is a real issue of embarrassment or physical deformity,” noting that this quick procedure is popular now that teens are “sexually active at younger ages.” He does nix permanent makeup and buttock, calf, and pectoral implants. Lukash is obviously knowledgeable, but his advice-filled book may come across as too boosterish for many readers. –Karen Springen
Review
“It’s a necessary book, and one I wish had been available to the parents of the teens who underwent cosmetic procedures200,000 of themin the U.S. last year.” The New Yorker
“This book fills a definite need in public library and consumer health collections.” —Library Journal
About the Author
Frederick Lukash, M.D., FACS, FAAP, has consistently been voted one of “America’s Top Doctors” by the Castle Connolly guide and by the Consumer Research Council of America (BestDoctors.com). A Board Certified cosmetic and reconstructive plastic surgeon in practice in New York City and Long Island since 1981, he is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
He received his college and medical degrees from Tulane University. His postgraduate training in surgery and plastic surgery includes Emory University, State University of New York and Harvard University, where he held the position of Instructor in Surgery.
Dr. Lukash is a member of all the major plastic surgical societies, including The American Society of Plastic Surgeonsfor whom he is the media spokesperson on the topic of teens and plastic surgery.
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