I respect what Ms. Bligh, Queensland, Australia's Premier, has to say on this issue. In some cases, age really is nothing but a number, and I think a large part of whether someone's ready for cosmetic surgery is their level of maturity. I work with a plastic surgeon and of course he follows the minimum age limits set by law for his breast augmentation patients in Chicago. For surgeries such as nose jobs that may make sense for some teenagers, the emphasis should always be on maturity, whether the patient can make and informed choice, in short, behaving like an "adult."