Cosmetic Treatments and Body Dysmorphic Disorder

摘要

In 2009, approximately 12.5 million cosmetic surgical (eg, breast augmentation, rhinoplasty) and minimally invasive procedures, (eg, Botox injections and chemical peels) were performed in the United States. The number of cosmetic procedures performed in the United States has increased by more than 60 since 2000. As these statistics suggest, cosmetic procedures are popular. Numerous theoretical explanations for the popularity of cosmetic procedures have been put forth, including the large body of social psychological research regarding the important role of physical appearance in daily life, the role of the mass media in perpetuating unrealistic images of beauty ideals, and technological advances in cosmetic medicine that allow procedures to be performed more safely and with less recovery time than in the past.2