San Francisco is America's capital of aesthetic surgery, according to a report in the September 2008 issue of Men's Health magazine.
The magazine ranked 100 of the country's major cities by the amount of cosmetic surgeries performed, the number of people admitting to having received Botox treatments, and the number of plastic surgeons and cosmetic dentists per capita.
Following San Francisco is Honolulu; Sacramento, Calif; Miami; and Tucson, Ariz. The least number of aesthetic enhancements per capita can be found in Lincoln, Neb, according to the magazine. Fort Wayne, Ind, is 99th. Montgomery, Ala; Toledo, Ohio; and Madison, Wis round out the top five cities with the fewest number of nips and tucks.
Click here to see the full list. The magazine also ranked the 100 healthiest and unhealthiest cities in America for men.
The data was collected from the American Medical Association, the American Academy for Cosmetic Dentistry, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, and Experian Local Market Services.
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Cosmetic surgery among males has surged steadily over the last six years, increasing by 8 percent, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. Last year, men received a record 1.1 million cosmetic procedures, ranging from relatively benign Botox injections to all forms of liposuction (which, not surprisingly, remains overall one of the most popular procedures for men). That makes male cosmetic surgery a major portion of a $12.2 billion-dollar-a-year industry.
Nearly 11.7 million cosmetic surgical and nonsurgical procedures were performed in the United States in 2007, according to statistics released by the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. The Aesthetic Society, which has been collecting multi-specialty procedural statistics since 1997, says the overall number of cosmetic procedures has increased 457 percent since the collection of the statistics first began. The most frequently performed procedure was Botox injections and the most popular surgical procedure was liposuction.
"Our statistics confirm that aesthetic plastic surgery is not defined by race or gender,"? said Aesthetic Society president Dr. Foad Nahai. "The number of surgical and nonsurgical procedures performed on men increased 17 percent since last year, and 22 percent of the aesthetic procedures were performed on traditional racial and ethnic minorities."?
Women had 91 percent of cosmetic procedures. The numbe of procedures (surgical and nonsurgical) performed on women was over 10.6 million, an increase of 1 percent from the previous year. Surgical procedures increased 9 percent; nonsurgical procedures decreased by less than 1 percent. Since 1997, surgical procedures increased 142 percent, while nonsurgical procedures have increased 743 percent.