My opinion - Plastic Surgery

1. What is plastic surgery?

For me, plastic surgery is referred to a new medication technology performed by a group of qualified doctor to change, restore or repair physical parts of human body to become a better look.

This technique normally involved the skin, mascular system, cranion structures, hand, extenities, breast, trunk, genatilia or cosmetic enhancement of these areas of the human body.

2. What are the roles of parents and media about plastic surgery?

The Role of Parent:

Parent play an important role in influencing children about plastic surgery. Parent should not only focus on the physical image of their children, they should also encourage and give moral support on their self interest such as educations, sports, skills or abilities.

Some parents also comment on the critical physical appearance on one of their children and starts making comparisons among siblings. Comparison of the self-confidence will affect their children. Children who affected by htis external image will encourage them to support plastic surgery.

Therefore, parent should give moral support to those who have low self-confidence. Parents should show their full love to children without favors. This will help them to increase their confidence in the process of becoming adults.

The Role of Media

Media also plays an important role in promoting a plastic surgery. Media often show images of beautiful and sexy young woman to attract male customers while a handsome male models and muscular often appear to attract female costumers. Without realizing this, will encourage readers to compare themselves with models which appear by the media.

To raise awareness about the benefit and dangers surgery, the media can display fail cases of a plastic surgery or show the surgery which was unsuccessful. Hopefully, this will give more awareness to people about what plastic surgery and thus reduce the cases of failed plastic surgery among woman in particular.

By showing the contain elements of risk that may give certain impact on external and physical health of a person, we should evaluate and strive to achieve external and internal beauty with a reasonable way.

Many young people willing to improve the physical appearance without deeply thinking what bad thing that may be incurred by undrego for a plastic surgery.

3. What the types of plastic surgery?

Plastic surgery is divided into two types which are cosmetic surgery and reconstructive surgery.

Cosmetic Surgery:

The purpose of cosmetic surgery is to improve the normal structured body of human kind so as to be more confident and self behavior.

There are many types of cosmetic surgery, among the famous by the consumers are Abdominoplasty, Augmentation Mammoplasty and Chemical Peel.

Abdominoplasty is referred to an operation specifically to tighten the abdominal muscle whilst Augmentation Mammoplasty is an operation purposely for breast enlargement while Chemical Peel is an operation to overcome the wrinkles on the face.

Reconstructive Surgery:

Reconstructive surgery is very useful for those who are involved or as victim of an accident, birth defect or tumor in part of the face. By doing this, can give them a chance to live as a normal person who can be accepted by the community.

4. What are disadvantages of plastic surgery?

Beside its benefit, plastic surgery is also giving negative impact to the consumers. The minimum cost to perform plastic surgery to a nose is around RM2,000.00 and that person need to undergo the same surgery at lease once during five years.

No guarantee for each operation. Surgeons have to risk making mistakes that will cause inflection. For a serious infection, that will result in death. Each operation will lead to pain for a period until six months. This means that the person will get pain extremely prolonged for a long period of time.

Bruising and bleeding is a normal phenomenon and this will become uncomfortable situation for each operation.

5. What Islamic perspective about plastic surgery?

In Islam, changing God's creation is prohibited. However, Islam allowed us to undergo for plastic surgery for several reasons. In a hadith it is stated:"From Abdullah ibn Masud (Allah be pleased with him) said: Allah curse is on those women who practice tattooing and get themselves tattooed, and those who remove hair from their faces and those who make space between their teeth artificially to beauty themselves."

One classic example is that a boy who born with crooked legs. For sure he cannot walk without undergo for an operation. Another example is a young girl who given by the great creator (Allah ) a perfect nose, undergo for a plastic surgery to change her nose one (1)cm higher than before.

Islam as the perfect religion allowed the ummah to undergo for a plastic surgery for health reason however disallowed for beautiful or cosmetic reasons.

In view of the above, fatwa have declared that all types of mutilation to one body is unlawful (haram) unless with Shariah permits to do so such as circumcision, trimming the hair from the body, cut the nail etc.

Cosmetic surgery for the purpose of beautifying is impermissible as the body given to us is the amanah, thus it is unlawful to tamper with it in anyway, however if there are genuine need, then to perform cosmetic surgery will become permissible.