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Scharnburg, Kirsten. "After Plastic Surgeries, More Do An About-Face." Chicago Tribune 28 Jan 2008: n.p.. SIRS Researcher. SIRS Knowledge Source. 8 Dec 2008 .

The author, Kirsten Scharnburg is a well known journalist in Chicago, working as a correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. She has written many articles about many different topics, from politics to cosmetic surgery. In the entry, Scharnburg discusses the problems people face from plastic surgery, and the regrets many feel after going under the knife. Scharnburg speaks to patients who are dissapointed with their results, as well as surgeons who are seeing more plastic "redos" in their offices. One patient, Debra Dunn, hated her nose job so much she hardly ever went out in public, and made sure to hide it behind her long hair if needed. Dunn felt she lost her own self in this new fake nose, and it didn't suit her at all. The nose Dunn said was so similar to anyone else getting this surgery, and ended up paying 3 times as much to reconstruct her nose back to what it was before. Her surgeon, Dr. Andrew Jacano states that "one out of about every two or three procedures I do is a revision surgery." Patients often become more self concious with the initial plastic surgery, and feel as if cloned to be someone they are not. Many people regret reconstructing their bodies, and later revising it and never going under the knife again. Cosmetic surgeries as we see can be wasteful, and never what the patients are expecting