How the 'Chinplant' has become the latest must-have for U.S teens wanting to dazzle on prom night

[Jazzy]

As if prom night in America wasn't expensive enough, chin implants are fast being added to teens’ party shopping list, along with pricey dresses.



There has been a 71 per cent increase in the procedure being carried out in the U.S in the past year, with many of them being performed on high school girls desperate to look more glamorous than their peers.



It doesn’t come cheap, though. An implant costs between $3,500 (£2,150) and $7,500, with some girls also splashing out over $10,000 on a dress.



The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) believes that the trend is being fuelled by technology such as Skype and smartphones.



A spokesman for the society told The Sunday Times: ‘At proms in the past, teens would line up for photographs and face the camera. But the rise of more informal images, captured during video chats or by smartphones when they are leaning over a buffet maybe, has shown them angles of their face they had not seen in a mirror.’



Overall more than 20,000 procedures were carried out in the U.S. in 2011.



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I cannot believe parents would not only dish out all this money but they would even allow their children to do this. In one word...unbelievable!

 

[Evil Eye]

I cannot believe parents would not only dish out all this money but they would even allow their children to do this. In one word...unbelievable!

Indeed, and those dresses...

I suppose it's a good thing they're stimulating the economy, but not sensible parent ought to spend that much on something like that...