Jeffrey Frentzen

Recent comments

• Posted to Cosmetic Surgery Controversy in the News: How Young is Too Young? on 6 Aug 2012

  One complexity worth exploring is how the industry takes an issue such as bullying and spins it into an endorsement of plastic surgery. Should a child get his or her ears bobbed if the child is a bully target? Maybe. Should the plastic surgery industry attempt to exploit the current public interest in bullying and use it to sell the public on plastic surgery as a solution to bullying? I don't have the answers, but these are some of the questions.

• Posted to Cosmetic Surgery Controversy in the News: How Young is Too Young? on 6 Aug 2012

  Children get plastic surgery for the same reasons that adults get plastic surgery. The bullying is just a symptom (one of many possible) that motivates a family and the child to get some sort of corrective surgery. It's amusing how the question has been turned around into a discussion about bullying, which is not a new phenomenon. In fact, it is a facile argument that appears neat and comprehensive but ignores the complexities of the issue.