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Cosmetic surgeons in the USA are a disturbing increase in the number of patients seeking and having facial procedures to like their Snapchat selfies. The surgeons have this alarming new trend "Snapchat dysmorphia". This term from the condition body dysmorphic disorder - a mental disorder where the sufferer obsessed with the idea that part of their body or appearance is severely flawed and in need of drastic measures to it. The surgeons the condition in the journal Facial Plastic Surgery. They that 55 per cent of plastic surgeons an increase in the number of patients wanting alterations to their face to look like they do after Snapchat filters.

Snapchat and other social media apps filters to allow people to "" photos of their face to look "cuter". The professors say this is an obsession among younger people, especially teenage girls and women, with the "perfect" face. Doctors say many of the requests physically impossible to surgically. They wrote: "This an alarming trend because those filtered selfies often present an unattainable look and are the line of reality and fantasy for these patients." They added: "The pervasiveness of these filtered images can a toll on one's self-esteem." The most common procedures requested thinner noses, wider eyes and fuller lips.