A third of youth in Singapore say plastic surgery OK
(Straitstimes): One in three youth here think it is perfectly all right to go for cosmetic procedures at their age - with 14 out of the 1,400 surveyed admitting that they have already undergone such treatment. Image via: straitstimes.com Cosmetic treatment purely to improve looks, and not for medical reasons, has become very popular in countries like the United States and South Korea, where aesthetic treatment is thriving. A team of doctors and a dentist decided to find out if it was the same here and studied more than 1,400 responses from medical and junior college students aged 16 to 21. The results were published in the Singapore Medical Journal. Only 1 per cent said they have had cosmetic procedures done, mainly to the face, but the team implied that the figure could be higher, saying: "A major limitation of the present study is its dependence on honest responses." Although more than a third approved of youth going for cosmetic treatments, almost two in three