A new cosmetic surgery, Labiaplasty, is gradually becoming popular among teenage girls. Labiaplasty is a plastic surgery to trim down and shape the inner or outer lips of the vagina. Procedures like “Vaginoplasty”, “Revagination”, “G-spot amplification” and Vaginal rejuvenation” are gradually becoming popular among western teenage girls.

These procedures are not accepted as routine surgical procedures in medical fraternity and are raising ethical questions. But they help to raise the confidence of these young girls and relieve them from emotional anguish. They are neither safe nor medically indicated. These surgeries will cost around $5,500. According to Bloomberg, U.S women spent around $2.3 million on vaginal cosmetic surgeries last year.

Most of the women are opting for this surgery just for cosmetic purposes but only few are asking for surgery to relieve pain or discomfort.

Vaginal tightening procedures are generally belong to medical indications are recquire surgery to tighten and resecure the inner tissues to their anchoring structures. True medical conditions that merit the surgery include pelvic prolapse, the reversal or repair of female genital cutting, sometimes known as female circumcision, and the reversal of abnormalities caused by hormone imbalances.

 
Doctor should give proper guidance on the risks and benefits involved in these procedures before doing these cosmetic surgeries. Patients should note down that both American Society of Plastic Surgeons and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists are opposing these procedures which are growing at the rate of 30%.

 
Risks due to vaginal cosmetic surgeries:

1. Loss of sensitivity to the genitals.

2. Infection and pain from permanent scarring.

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