Hi Guys,

Something has been bothering me for quite awhile about plastic surgery.
But before I get into that, some background.

Nowadays with more and more people having access to plastic surgery its hard to believe whether a person was born good looking or has had surgery done to "fix" their looks. If thinking about having kids, what are the chances that we would pick a person who has had plastic surgery done over a naturally good looking person?

The common idea is that if someone has had plastic surgery done, its certain that the child will not look as good as the parent/parents. People attribute this to the fact that while they can have their physical appearance altered their gene's remain the same, thus "ugly" babies.

Here's a link to a blogpost which shows korean people and the drastic difference plastic surgery has made to their physical appearance.Before and After - Plastic Surgery. While the post may not be 100% accurate, there are a few well documented cases of drastic image alterations through plastic surgery.

But, we have hardly ever heard any stories about after the plastic surgery. It is very likely that these people would have kids as their chances in netting a "mate" would have dramatically increased after their make-over. That bring me to the thing that is bugging me. Would their CHILDREN really be "ugly"?

Its highly likely that I am wrong, but my hypothesis is that if the timespan between getting the surgery done and "mating" is long enough, it is possible that the children would not fully resemble the OLD appearance of the parents and instead may resemble the parents looks AFTER the surgery. And as with any hypothesis there are a few things that brought me to make this hypothesis.
- We know for a fact that the parents after plastic surgery do not totally revert back to their old appearance.
- We also know that we essentially replace our all bones cells every 10 years.
- We also know for a fact that some scars never go away.
- all the above suggest that our genes may adapt to our physical appearance as well.

That considered, isn't it likely that when these people who have had plastic surgery done have kids, that the genes used contain the blueprint of the NEW physical appearance rather than the old?

As usual please share your thought!
Thanks for reading!

Very informative read. Thank you!