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For those that don’t want to read the article (it is terrible) here’s the list: 1. SLC |
I have a buddy in Utah whose wife had an enhancement that shall go undisclosed, and shortly after her procedure, a significant number of the women in her ward had the same procedure done- it spread like wildfire. Indeed there were a lot of happy husbands in that ward, but I think it goes to show how a ward can be a source of more Joneses to keep up with. And I would bet a lot of those procedures were paid for on credit. |
I’ve said before that my best friend had plastic surgery at 35. She’s loaded and can afford it. A lady in our ward had a face lift and she looks great! I noticed it and she was a bit embarrassed, but also thrilled with it. Another friend has had two, I think. I can’t say for sure, but she’s quite vain and disappeared a couple of times and came back looking “refreshed.” I don’t know if this is fair, but Mormon women want to be thin, beautiful, endlessly energetic, and perfect. Maybe that’s it. I’d consider it. I probably wouldn’t want to go through that, but I’d love some procedures. For now, I spend the big bucks at Dillard’s makeup counters :) |
A pool of 45 surgeons is small — knocking only a few of them out of the “enhancement” business would knock Salt Lake out of the top 10. How many of those surgeons work chiefly at Shriners’ Hospital repairing cleft palates? How many are at the burn centers for which Salt Lake is the intermountain hub? How many of them work at Primary Children’s with the conjoined twins that are brought here for separation? How many at the University hospitals, like the one profiled on the local news recently who had built an artificial ear for a girl born without one? Mormons can be as vain as anybody else, granted, but I think this report is very much like the recent Google porn search report — it doesn’t tell the complex story and is misleading. |
annegb, I do think there are a lot of instances where these procedures are fine; I have no moral objections to plastic surgery, since I think people really benefit from the leveling it brings to our genetic playing field. I think it’s something that can be taken to unhealthy extremes, but the same can be said of diet, exercise, and church activity. |
For those who are doubting, drive down I-15 sometime. The only billboards that are more abundant than lipo/boob job ones are those silly Xango ones. Having lived in/around numbers 2 and 3 on the list I can’t recall ever seeing them on a billboard. |
I grew up in L.A., aka Silicone Valley, and they have a lot of billboards up there. In 2001 I had dinner in a very upscale Italian restaurant in Newport Beach, and all of the women in the room had been surgically modified to look like either Pamela Anderson or Catherine Zeta-Zones, who were constantly in the news at the time. It was like living in a version of Gattica. |
Heh, wait ’till all those who had plastic surgery get their glorified immortal bodies back warts and all. :P |
Interesting coincidence! I was just speaking to my wife about the billboards on i-15 on Sunday showing what a vain people we are. I’m just so proud that my smoking hot trophy wife doesn’t need surgery to make others feel insecure (yes, that was intentional irony). Another irony for me is that my mother-in-law actually works for one of the top plastic surgeons in SLC. She refuses to get any “comp” work done and is actually saddened and amazed at the shallowness of many of their patients. The surgeon refuses to do abdominal implants though, so if you want to look ripped you might have to shop a little. |
I wonder how much the statistics would be skewed if Park City weren’t included in the Utah totals? (Or even just Robert Redford personally?) |
Most women who have “work done” in my limited experience and from TV, etc., look better. A few are rather scary. But men who have work done, they just look like total bad word. I haven’t seen a guy who has had their face done who looks better. They really look pathetic. |
annegb – Jerry Jones, owner of the Dallas Cowboys, had a facelift done a few years (local media mocked him incessantly, but really – he looks a heck of a lot better). If you compare his pictures, he looks tons better. But in the end, I guess I don’t have a problem with it. Why is eye surgery considered good and a breast augmentation or a tummy tuck considered bad? My wife dyes her hair. Is that bad? I buy clothes that try to hide my gut. Is that bad? We talk about self-worth and all that. But sometimes, looking better helps increase self-worth. Some people would tell you that’s bad, but it’s reality. When you like the way you look, you’re happier and more productive. |
When I visited Utah all I say was billboards for: Plastic Surgery I am glad there aren’t billboards here in Alaska or else all there will be are billboards for: Seal Blubber Face Cream I guess Alaska is much like Utah. Except for all that heat. |
There’s a radio station in North Texas that tracks the current “it” factor of the local professional sports team (we have professional baseball, football, basketball, and hockey, plus NASCAR) by tracking where the “cocaine and boob job” crowd hangs out. When the Stars won the Stanley Cup and the Mavericks were bad, the CABJ crowd was rinkside. When Mark Cuban transformed the Mavericks, they were courtside. This year, the CABJ bunnies have reemerged as Cowboy lovers. Most people take the CABJ name as kind of an insult. But it still makes me giggle. |
From the ABMS webpage (source of Forbes data; http://www.abms.org, registration required): There were no hits for “Certification = Plastic Surgery within the Head and Neck” for Utah. There were 76 hits for “Certification = Plastic Surgery” for Utah: There were 22 for the rest of the state: Thus, there are 67 Board Certified plastic surgeons listed for Utah at present. |
This from Drudge: The fastest eco boat on the planet will attempt to break the round the world speed record using fuel made from human fat. |
#14 Q, That is too funny. I’m glad to see the certifications because it paints a better picture. Salt Lake City is a pretty different place than the cities surrounding it. If the region were taken into account, I think SLC would fall down the list, but numbers of procedures would remain competitive for the area. |
Excluding strippers, I’ve known more women in Utah who have had breast-enhancements than all other states combined. Perhaps this is another argument for the virtue of living in Zion instead of in the Mission Field. |
18 - I am shocked — shocked! — that Dallas didn’t make the list. Of course, the data is for plastic surgeons per capita, not surgeries, and doesn’t separate out the medically necessary from the enhancements and lifts. That’s some lazy journalism. I agree with Ardis; I don’t think we can draw any conclusions from that article. |
