Cosmetic surgery up 457
Cosmetic interventions, surgical and non-surgical, increased 8% from
2006 to 2007, and 457% in 10 years, the American Society for Aesthetic
Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) has revealed.
Overall, last year there were 11.7-million cosmetic interventions - 18% surgical, 82% not - generating some $13-billion, ASAPS said in a report.
Since 1997, when the group began gathering data, cosmetic interventions grew by 457%. By category, surgical procedures increased 114%, and non-surgical ones 754%. The most frequent non-surgical cosmetic procedure last year was Botox injections, with 2.77-million performed; while liposuction headed the list of surgical procedures, with 456 828.
After liposuction, the most-performed surgical procedures last year were breast augmentation, eyelid surgery, abdominoplasty, and female breast reduction.
Lasers most popular
In the non-surgical category, laser hair removal and laser skin resurfacing topped the list.
Women represented 91% of all cosmetic intervention patients in 2007, with 10.6-million procedures. While men were a small minority, their number from 2006 to 2007 increased by 17%.
Male patients echoed the overall trends, with the most frequent cosmetic surgery last year being liposuction (57 980), and the most frequent non-surgical, Botox injections (329 519). For women, breast augmentation was the surgery most performed (399 400), and Botox injections headed the non-surgical popularity poll (2.45 million).
Female breast augmentation saw the biggest surge last year, while for men it was anti-wrinkle Radiesse injections - a dermal filler based on calcium-based microspheres suspended in a water-based gel. ? (Sapa) March 2008