According to statistics released by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, there were 17.1 million surgical and minimally-invasive cosmetic procedures performed in the United States last year, with focuses on facelifts and fat transfers for patients.
Fat transfers: the data shows new cosmetic procedural trends related to the role of fat in body shaping. This procedure involves harvesting a patient’s unwanted fat from their abdomen using liposuction and then inject it to lift and rejuvenate other areas such as the face, buttock and even the breast.
Facelift: a facelift, or rhytidectomy, is a surgical procedure that improves visible signs of aging in the face and neck, such as:
- Relaxation of the skin of the face causing sagging
- Deepening of the fold lines between the nose and corner of the mouth
- Fat that has fallen or has disappeared
- Jowls
- Loose skin and excess fat of the neck that can appear as a double chin or “turkey neck”
Top 5 Cosmetic Surgical and Minimally-Invasive Procedures
The top 5 cosmetic surgical procedures performed in 2016 were:
- Breast augmentation (290,467 procedures, up 4 percent from 2015)
- Liposuction (235,237 procedures, up 6 percent from 2015)
- Nose reshaping (223,018 procedures, up 2 percent from 2015)
- Eyelid surgery (209,020 procedures, up 2 percent from 2015)
- Facelifts (131,106 procedures, up 4 percent from 2015)
Among the 15.5 million cosmetic minimally-invasive procedures performed in 2016, the top 5 were:
- Botulinum Toxin Type A (7 million procedures, up 4 percent from 2015)
- Soft Tissue Fillers (2.6 million procedures, up 2 percent from 2015)
- Chemical Peel (1.36 million procedures, up 4 percent since 2015)
- Laser hair removal (1.1 million procedures, down 1 percent from 2015)
- Microdermabrasion (775,000 procedures, down 3 percent from 2015)
The ASPS stats also showed the increasing popularity on labiaplasty, a plastic surgery which rejuvenates the labia by lifting and/or injecting fat or filler into the area, increased by 39 percent in 2016, with more than 12,000 procedures.
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