With fierce competition in Hollywood, some celebrities feel tremendous pressure to conform to a look-obsessed society's beauty standards of beauty or turn back time by undergoing plastic surgery.

Each day, Plastic Surgeons are reconstructing lives: restoring function, improving appearances, and elevating self-Esteem, says the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.

Sally Field, 61, was first introduced to television in her teens on sitcoms Gidget and The Flying Nun. She won acclaim for her role in Sybil, and an Academy Award for Norma Rae.

UT Southwestern Medical Center plastic surgeons are among a handful in the nation deploying a new type of laser that goes deeper into the skin to help reduce wrinkles, tighten surface structures and treat pigmentation differences.

Waxy, plastic foreheads and trout pouts are among the trends that have to go, says Samantha Chang of TheImproper.com.

The death of rapper Kayne West's mother, Donda West, connected to plastic surgery, is raising questions on the safety of a procedure that's recently gained heightened popularity.

Most women, and large numbers of men, are interested in having cosmetic surgery, UCLA scientists report in the October issue of the Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.

Scheduling one’s plastic surgery is a real cakewalk these days. It all boils down to economics, by and large. However, the victims of meatball surgery are confident that a good plastic surgeon is hard to find no matter how much money one may be willing to spend on the improvement of one’s looks.

A study in the September issue of the Journal of Periodontology (JOP) found that smokers had less desirable long term results following periodontal plastic surgery than non-smokers.

China's media regulators have banned reality TV shows that feature plastic surgery or sex change operations, after some viewers complained they were "horrifying and sickening".

In what they call a “stunning research advance,” investigators at Georgetown University Medical Center have been able to use simple, non-toxic chemical injections to add and remove fat in targeted areas on the bodies of laboratory animals. They say the discovery, published online in Nature Medicine on July 1, could revolutionize human cosmetic and reconstructive plastic surgery and treatment of diseases associated with human obesity.

Significant differences in plastic surgery referral practices by general surgeons treating newly diagnosed breast cancer patients partially explain the low rates of breast reconstructive surgery in the United States, according to a new study.