Snapchat and other social media apps provide filters to allow people to "enhance" photos of their face to look "cuter". The professors say this is fuelling an obsession among younger people, especially teenage girls and women, with the "perfect" face. Doctors say many of the requests are physically impossible to perform surgically. They wrote: "This is an alarming trend because those filtered selfies often present an unattainable look and are blurring the line of reality and fantasy for these patients." They added: "The pervasiveness of these filtered images can take a toll on one's self-esteem." The most common procedures being requested include thinner noses, wider eyes and fuller lips.
1. BANNED: Students A strongly believe plastic surgery should be banned; Students B strongly believe otherwise.
2. SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article.
- disturbing
- procedures
- termed
- flawed
- alterations
- fuelling
- perform
- unattainable
- pervasiveness
- self-esteem
- carry out
- imperfect
- prevalence
- changes
- operations
- impossible
- worrying
- confidence
- called
- feeding
People... |
Is it OK?
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Why (not)?
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with Snapchat dysmorphia | ||
with birth defects | ||
with scars | ||
who had traffic accidents | ||
who need a new identity | ||
who are rich |