How Plastic Surgery May Have Saved My Friend’s Life

Dr. Linda Dahl
4 min readJul 23, 2021
Photo by Jan Kopřiva on Unsplash

I was brought up with the ’70s and ’80’s versions of beauty. The look was tall and thin and blond. In the ’90s, the range of acceptable beauty widened to include diversity in tall, thin women, but still didn’t include what most of us had to offer. More recently, beauty standards have begun to embrace different shapes and sizes. At the same time, plastic surgery has also become more mainstream. Not…

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Dr. Linda Dahl

Physician. Author of Tooth and Nail:The Making of a Female Fight Doctor & Better Breastfeeding, http://www.drlindadahl.com @doctorlindadahl