My friend chose to have her ears pinned back and the bump taken out of her nose at about 18 years old, she wishes her parents would have done it when she was young apparently it is so much less painful when you are a kid. She isn’t at all vain, but she feels these were important improvements in life for attracting a mate and succeeding career wise. These are not expensive procedures and very routine, not what we normally think of when we think of plastic surgery. Why do we call it plastic anyway, there is no plastic involved? Doesn’t seem much different than getting your teeth fixed up or contact lenses.
When you are dealing with medical terms, remember they have latin roots, etc.
In this case, plastic has a greek root, meaning to sculpt, essentially.