MONDAY, Jan. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Need proof that cosmetic
surgery and men is now a mainstream marriage?
Check out these statistics: While women still make up 87 percent
of all cosmetic surgery patients, 1.2 million procedures were
performed on men in 2004. That's a 16 percent increase since 2000,
according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).
"More men than ever before are getting plastic surgery," said Dr.
Brent Moelleken, a Beverly Hills, Calif., plastic and reconstructive
surgeon who says up to 20 percent of his practice includes men. "Ten
years ago, it was just 5 to 10 percent."
Men choose to improve many of the same body parts as women. But
they're different as cosmetic surgery patients in other ways, say
the doctors who work on them.
The top five male cosmetic surgeries in 2004 were nose reshaping,
hair transplantation, eyelid surgery, liposuction and breast
reduction, according to the ASPS. Another organization that keeps
statistics, the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
(ASAPS), has the same top five surgeries for men, although in a
slightly different order.
Women also were most likely to opt for nose reshaping, eyelid
surgery and liposuction, followed by breast augmentation and
facelifts, according to the ASPS. The ASAPS reported nearly the same
top five, but with tummy tucks nosing out nose jobs.
When it comes to minimally invasive procedures, men -- like women
-- choose Botox injections, as well as chemical peels, collagen
injections and microdermabrasion, a process in which a plastic
surgeon uses a device like a "fine sandblaster to spray tiny
crystals across the face, mixing mild abrasion with suction to
remove the dead, outer layer of skin," according to the ASPS.
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