Aesthetic surgery

In just a decade, the number of aesthetic has more than quintupled in the United States. Between 2006 and 2007, they had already increased by 8%, and there were almost 12 million cosmetic interventions - with or without surgery - with a value estimated at $ 13 billion. Among the 11.7 million interventions counted, 18% were surgical. The remaining 82% represent the non-surgical interventions, and reflect the increase of almost 750% over the past decade the use of patients without surgery procedures. The surgery is most wanted by American remains liposuction (456828 recorded in 2007). At the top 5 of plastic surgery operations more widespread in the United States after the lipo: the increase in breast by the installation of breast implants, blepharoplasty backtracking eyelids, abdominoplasty to reshape his stomach and the mammoplastie reduction to reduce breast hypertrophy. It should be noted that the buttock augmentation has been the operation which has experienced the strongest growth in 2007 among women. With regard to non-surgical interventions, the most frequent is the injection of Botox (2.77 million interventions). Suit laser hair removal and regeneration of the skin, also practiced laser. The photographs do not lie because it is mainly women who are seeking aesthetic. Alone, Americans accounted for more than ten and a half million interventions and 91% of patients in 2007. The men are still the minority, but the number of male patients who have had recourse to an aesthetic nevertheless increased from 17% in the same year. At the top of their queries: liposuction (57980 operations) and injections of Botox (329,519 interventions).