Breast Implants: Fastest Growing Plastic Surgery Procedure?
Breast Implants: Fastest Growing Plastic Surgery Procedure?
December18, 2006 -
With the new reintroduction of silicone breast implants in the United States market, the interest in cosmetic procedures has further increased. However, is breast enhancement the fastest growing cosmetic surgical procedure?
While breast augmentation is one of the most popular plastic surgery procedures in the U.S., it is not the fastest growing. Neither are nose jobs, Botox, liposuction, or other “tune-up” procedures.
Body Contouring
So what’s everyone running to their surgeon for? According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), the top five fastest growing plastic surgeries are major operations performed to cut away excess fat and pounds of flesh-also known as body contouring procedures.
Statistics from the ASPS show that 68,000 body contouring procedures including thigh lift, upper arm lift, buttocks lift, breast lift, and reshaping tummy tuck were performed in 2005-a 22 percent increase since the year before. Furthermore, the five fastest growing plastic surgery procedures generated $700 million in surgeon fees alone.
Contouring After Gastric Bypass
Why this sudden jump in body contouring procedures? It’s a result of the explosion of gastric bypass surgeries performed to treat obesity-170,000 in 2005, an eleven-fold increase since the early 90s.
As patients shed hundreds of pounds in such a short amount of time, extra flesh that was permanently stretched by years of weight gain hangs off their bodies. Most decide to undergo body contouring procedures, which are more extensive forms of surgeries such as a tummy tuck, to cut away the fat.
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