Cosmetic Surgery

Cosmetic surgery involves techniques aimed at "improving" the appearance through surgical and medical techniques, and relates particularly to maintaining normal appearance, restoring, or to increase beyond the average level toward some aesthetic ideal.

In 2006, approximately 11 million cosmetic surgeries were performed in USA. The number of cosmetic procedures performed in the United States has grown 50 percent since the beginning of the century. Nearly 12 million cosmetic surgeries were performed in 2007, the five most common cosmetic surgeries are breast augmentation, liposuction, rhinoplasty, eyelid surgery and abdominoplasty. The increased use of cosmetic procedures across racial and ethnic lines in USA, with increases observed among African Americans and Hispanic Americans and white Americans.

Europe is the second largest market for cosmetic procedures, cosmetic surgery is a $ 2.2 billion deolares.

Cosmetic procedures / cosmetics more frequently include:

Abdominoplasty (tummy tuck): remodeling and reaffirmation of the abdomen Blepharoplasty (eyelid surgery): the refurbishment of the eyelids or the application of permanent outlined, including blepharoplasty Asia. Mammoplasty: breast augmentation (breast implants): The breast augmentation through fat grafting, saline implants or silicone gel. Reduction mammoplasty (breast reduction) is the removal of skin and glandular tissue, is made to reduce back pain and shoulder in women with gigantomastia and / or psychological benefit for men with gynecomastia.

Mastopexy (breast lift) lifting or reshaping of breasts to make them less drooping, often after weight loss (after a pregnancy, for example). This is to remove the breast skin compared with buttock augmentation glandular tissue (implant ass ): the improvement of the buttocks with silicone implants or fat grafting (Brazilian butt lift) and the transfer of other areas of the buttock lift of the body, lifting and tightening the buttocks by the removal of redundant skin chemical peel: to minimize the appearance of acne, chickenpox and other scars and wrinkles (depending on the concentration and the type of agent used, except for deep furrows), solar lentigines (age spots, freckles) and sun damage in general. Chemical peels commonly involve carbolic acid (Phenol), trichloroacetic acid (TCA), glycolic acid (AHA) or salicylic acid (BHA) as the active agent.

Labiaplasty: Surgical reduction and reshaping of the lower lips enhancement: improved surgical lips fullness through enlargement of rhinoplasty (nose surgery), nose reshaping, otoplasty (ear surgery) : the reshaping of the ear, most often done by setting the head near the ear Rhytidectomy (face lift ): removal of wrinkles and signs of aging face Browplasty ( brow lift or forehead lift ): raise eyebrows, forehead skin smooth midface lift (cheek lift): narrowing of the suction-assisted lipectomy cheeks ( liposuction ): the elimination of fat increasing body of Chin (chin implants): the increase in the chin with an implant, usually silicone, sliding genioplasty of the jawbone or suturing of soft tissue augmentation cheek (cheek implant): the cheek implants filler injections, collagen, fat and other tissue filler injections such as hyaluronic acid laser skin.

By Mily