Cosmetic surgery popular among teens

GUANGZHOU: More middle school students are undergoing cosmetic surgery this summer vacation. But such procedures are extremely inadvisable, experts said, because these youngsters are still growing, the local Nanfang Daily reported yesterday.

Young adults undergoing surgery to improve their looks in July, when they have more time to recover, was double that of a few months ago, the newspaper reported.

"Dozens of school children have come daily to our hospital since the beginning of July," Chen Jianfei, a doctor at the Guangdong Armed Police Hospital plastic surgery center said. "The youngest case I have seen is a 13-year-old girl."