Americans spend ten billion dollars on cosmetic surgery
Large breasts, full lips, straight nose for cosmetic surgery have spent U.S. citizens billion last year. Especially older women decide to intervention – but also hundreds of thousands of young people go under the knife voluntarily.
Hamburg – The U.S. economy is suffering the biggest crisis in decades, the number of unemployed is at record levels, the country is so deeply in debt than ever – but that seems to be many Americans really care. Still give U.S. citizens billions of dollars for cosmetic surgery. In 2009 alone – the year of crisis simply stated – U.S. citizens from ten billion on cosmetic procedures, is based on current data from the American Society of Plastic Surgery (ASPS) shows. However: in 2008 Americans had issued three percent more for the beauty interventions.
Apparently U.S. citizens to save large and thus expensive interventions: So, the number of breast enlargements and nose straightening at six and eight percent. Also could be significantly less suck their fat (minus 19 percent) or embellish the eyelids (minus eight percent). The number of small cosmetic surgery took significantly, however: for instance, went up the number of Botox treatments and wrinkle reduction by 99 percent.
A particular need for beauty treatments, according to ASPS are still women over 55 years. How big the group is exactly the company said, however, did not cooperate. Overall, however, made 91 percent of all cosmetic surgery have been conducted in women.
Among the 13 – to 19-year-old interest in the cosmetic surgery is also large: the 210 000 treated adolescents make up two percent of all patients. Again, it probably involves mainly girls.