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Dr Tim Papadopoulos and CosmeticCulture have been featured frequently in the media. We invite you to browse through our news and lifestyle section featuring the latest buzz on CosmeticCulture, our featured products and the medical spa industry.Articles
Plastic surgery holiday boom – By Jen Melocco, The Daily Telegraph, January 23, 2008
Teenage surgery – The Daily Telegraph, August 29, 2006
More teens wanting botox – The Advertiser, March 17, 2006
Botox before the wrinkles – By Amy Lawson, The Sydney Morning Herald, February 20, 2006
Cosmetic Surgery – Poll Results – By Mercedes Maguire, MotherInc Online Magazine
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Dr Papadopoulos is regularly asked to comment on his areas of specialisation in the media. Interviews with Dr Papadopoulos have appeared in The Sunday Telegraph, The Sun-Herald, The Adelaide Advertiser, and The Sydney Weekly.
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Dr Papadopoulos has been featured on SBS and Vega radio. He is also a regular guest on MIX 106.5 radio.
Teenage Cosmetic Surgery
The Daily Telegraph – featured on eblah blog August 29, 2006
Teenagers will be banned from having Botox or collagen injections under sweeping changes aimed at reining in the burgeoning cosmetic surgery industry. The Sunday Telegraph can reveal the State Government is planning to introduce regulations making it more difficult for people under 18 to undergo purely cosmetic procedures. The changes have been personally driven by Premier Morris Iemma, who was disturbed after learning Big Brother contestant Krystal Forscutt appeared on the program with breast implants.
His intervention follows instances of teenagers, some as young as 15, turning up in cosmetic surgery clinics across Sydney, requesting ‘Jessica Simpson’ noses, breast implants, liposuction and Botox and collagen injections. Under the proposed changes, teenagers will be required to obtain a referral from a GP before seeing a plastic surgeon and to undergo counselling. Surgeons will require the consent of the teenager's parents and will be forced to offer a minimum one-month cooling-off period before a procedure can be undertaken.
Mr Iemma said serious debate was needed about whether cosmetic surgery was appropriate for teenagers. “As a parent of a young daughter, I have become increasingly concerned that society's obsession with the perfect female body is influencing too many, too young,” he said. “We need to send a strong message that young women will be valued for who they are, not what they look like. It used to be the case that the biggest question parents faced was whether to give their children permission to have their ears pierced.” “Then it was tattoos. But, increasingly, parents are being asked to fund breast implants or a nose job as birthday or graduation gifts.”
No figures on the number of procedures are kept in Australia, but most Sydney surgeons report the trend is on the rise. According to the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, 326,000 cosmetic procedures in 2004 were on teenagers. They included 13,000 ear pinnings (otoplasty), almost 52,000 nose reshapings (rhinoplasty), nearly 4000 breast implants and 3000 liposuction procedures. In NSW, teenagers can expect to pay as much as $10,000 for breast implants or between $4000 and $7000 for nose jobs.
Surgeons contacted by The Sunday Telegraph are concerned at the trend, which they said had been driven by ‘airbrushed’ teenagers in magazines and reality shows. One surgeon said schoolgirls often arrived at his clinic clutching magazine clippings of celebrities such as Jennifer Lopez. Some teenagers viewed cosmetic surgery as an answer to low self-esteem and schoolyard bullying.
The surgeons, all members of the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons, said most reputable doctors would not perform cosmetic surgery on teenagers, other than otoplasty and rhinoplasty. But they conceded there were ‘cowboys’ in the industry.
Sydney plastic surgeon Tim Papadopoulos said the number of teenagers booked for consultations for cosmetic surgery procedures had risen from one a month five years ago to one a week. Dr Papadopoulos said requests ranged from bigger breasts and liposuction to Botox and collagen.
Double Bay cosmetic surgeon Kourosh Tavakoli has received e-mails from girls as young as 13 pleading to have surgery. He said parents tended to be more encouraging of surgery than in the past. “I've also had a 15-year-old wanting breast augmentation… I won't do it on anyone who is still at school, but there are doctors out there who will.”
Former Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons president Norm Olbourne said breast reductions and nose reshapings made up the majority of requests by teenagers visiting his Chatswood clinic. “Then there are the groups of girls wanting breast enlargements, although I've never seen a girl under 18 wanting one who didn't come in holding her mother's hand,” Dr Olbourne said.
Ms Forscutt, who was 19 when she appeared on Big Brother, said she supported Mr Iemma's proposal for counselling under-18s. “I get young girls asking about my boob job. Some of them want me to recommend a doctor,” she told The Sunday Telegraph. “But what I say to them is you can't get self-confidence from an operation. It comes from within.”
Ms Forscutt said she did not want to be seen as a poster girl for plastic surgery, despite having her breast enhancement at age 19. “It is a minute part of who I am. I'm more than just a pair of fake tits,” the now 20-year-old said. “It's major surgery and there are side effects. Because I got mine done so young, this isn't the end of it for me. I'll have three or four more operations as I get older.”
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The Daily Telegraph – featured on eblah blog August 29, 2006
Teenagers will be banned from having Botox or collagen injections under sweeping changes aimed at reining in the burgeoning cosmetic surgery industry. The Sunday Telegraph can reveal the State Government is planning to introduce regulations making it more difficult for people under 18 to undergo purely cosmetic procedures. The changes have been personally driven by Premier Morris Iemma, who was disturbed after learning Big Brother contestant Krystal Forscutt appeared on the program with breast implants.
His intervention follows instances of teenagers, some as young as 15, turning up in cosmetic surgery clinics across Sydney, requesting ‘Jessica Simpson’ noses, breast implants, liposuction and Botox and collagen injections. Under the proposed changes, teenagers will be required to obtain a referral from a GP before seeing a plastic surgeon and to undergo counselling. Surgeons will require the consent of the teenager's parents and will be forced to offer a minimum one-month cooling-off period before a procedure can be undertaken.
Mr Iemma said serious debate was needed about whether cosmetic surgery was appropriate for teenagers. “As a parent of a young daughter, I have become increasingly concerned that society's obsession with the perfect female body is influencing too many, too young,” he said. “We need to send a strong message that young women will be valued for who they are, not what they look like. It used to be the case that the biggest question parents faced was whether to give their children permission to have their ears pierced.” “Then it was tattoos. But, increasingly, parents are being asked to fund breast implants or a nose job as birthday or graduation gifts.”
No figures on the number of procedures are kept in Australia, but most Sydney surgeons report the trend is on the rise. According to the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, 326,000 cosmetic procedures in 2004 were on teenagers. They included 13,000 ear pinnings (otoplasty), almost 52,000 nose reshapings (rhinoplasty), nearly 4000 breast implants and 3000 liposuction procedures. In NSW, teenagers can expect to pay as much as $10,000 for breast implants or between $4000 and $7000 for nose jobs.
Surgeons contacted by The Sunday Telegraph are concerned at the trend, which they said had been driven by ‘airbrushed’ teenagers in magazines and reality shows. One surgeon said schoolgirls often arrived at his clinic clutching magazine clippings of celebrities such as Jennifer Lopez. Some teenagers viewed cosmetic surgery as an answer to low self-esteem and schoolyard bullying.
The surgeons, all members of the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons, said most reputable doctors would not perform cosmetic surgery on teenagers, other than otoplasty and rhinoplasty. But they conceded there were ‘cowboys’ in the industry.
Sydney plastic surgeon Tim Papadopoulos said the number of teenagers booked for consultations for cosmetic surgery procedures had risen from one a month five years ago to one a week. Dr Papadopoulos said requests ranged from bigger breasts and liposuction to Botox and collagen.
Double Bay cosmetic surgeon Kourosh Tavakoli has received e-mails from girls as young as 13 pleading to have surgery. He said parents tended to be more encouraging of surgery than in the past. “I've also had a 15-year-old wanting breast augmentation… I won't do it on anyone who is still at school, but there are doctors out there who will.”
Former Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons president Norm Olbourne said breast reductions and nose reshapings made up the majority of requests by teenagers visiting his Chatswood clinic. “Then there are the groups of girls wanting breast enlargements, although I've never seen a girl under 18 wanting one who didn't come in holding her mother's hand,” Dr Olbourne said.
Ms Forscutt, who was 19 when she appeared on Big Brother, said she supported Mr Iemma's proposal for counselling under-18s. “I get young girls asking about my boob job. Some of them want me to recommend a doctor,” she told The Sunday Telegraph. “But what I say to them is you can't get self-confidence from an operation. It comes from within.”
Ms Forscutt said she did not want to be seen as a poster girl for plastic surgery, despite having her breast enhancement at age 19. “It is a minute part of who I am. I'm more than just a pair of fake tits,” the now 20-year-old said. “It's major surgery and there are side effects. Because I got mine done so young, this isn't the end of it for me. I'll have three or four more operations as I get older.”
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