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Why are fewer and fewer Americans fixing their noses?

  • Written by Laurie Essig, Director and Professor of Gender, Sexuality, & Feminist Studies, Middlebury College
The nose isn't going under the knife like it once did.Lightspring/Shutterstock.com

Americans love cosmetic surgery.

Last year in the U.S., there were 1.8 million plastic surgeries and nearly 16 million nonsurgical procedures, like Botox – about one for every 20 Americans.

The US$8 billion industry now has entire beauty magazines devoted to...

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