11-Year-Old Girl Get Plastic Surgery After Being Bullied

More and more children are going under the knife to change the way they look and doctors say schoolyard bullies are to blame.
Parents are making appointments with plastic surgeons to stop their kids from being picked on.

An 11-year-old Ohio girl had a procedure back in December.
Bella Harrington says she was tormented by other kids, who made fun of her ‘elf ears.’
“They would always like point it out, but then the more people pointed it out is when I wanted to change it,” Bella Harrington says.
After several years of abuse, Bella and her mother decided to do something about it.
They hired a doctor to perform Octoplasty, a procedure to pin the girl’s ears back.

Bella’s doctor says she’s not alone.
More young patients are electing to have pediatric cosmetic surgery and when is comes to correcting an issue prompting bullying, the younger is better.
“We like to treat these children before they enter school,” says Dr. Joe Niamtu. “It’s not uncommon that I’m doing 4 or 5-year-olds.”
According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, doctors perform more than 60,000 cosmetic surgeries on kids between 13 and 19 every year.
The tops three most common procedures are: breast augmentation, breast reduction in boys and ear surgeries.