Historians have dated the foundations of reconstructive surgery all the way back to ancient Egypt and India. But the most important movement of reconstructive surgery in America began with the World War I (Ciaschini 2001). Through the years, reconstructive surgery has lost its sole purpose, to restore human appendages, and has branched out into the monstrous

Although there is no hard evidence to support the difference in Caucasian and Asian surgery, simple assumptions can be combined to make a logical analysis. Procedural statistics trends from 1992-2001, provided by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, list the following facts:

• Asian-Americans accounted for 3 percent.

Although there were numerous reasons why these women felt cosmetic surgery was necessary, most agree that their purpose would not be to assimilate to Caucasian standards of beauty or western society. Patients note that their surgeries take place because of personal preferences. A portion of a missionary statement from the Enhance Medical Center states,

Eugenia Kaw, an award-winning anthropology student at the University of California in Berkeley, conducted an ethnographic research project completed in the San Francisco Bay area. She conducted 11 interviews with Asian American women who have already had cosmetic surgery. The women gave numerous reasons on why they wanted surgery, but all agree that their previous features were undesirable.

• African-Americans comprised 6 percent of all cosmetic patients.

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