More than 70 per cent of women aged between 18 and 30 want to have plastic surgery.
This is the finding of a study commissioned by More! magazine, which also found that 49 per cent of the 1,000 women asked said they were planning to have cosmetic surgery in the near future.
Plastic surgery in Florida has continued to garner strong demand, say surgeons in the state.
Following encouraging figures from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) at the start of the year, plastic surgeons are reporting continued demand for a range of procedures. Americans spent approximately $10.7 billion on cosmetic treatments last year, with breast implants, liposuction, tummy tucks and Botox topping the list of popular procedures.
Kelle Treadwell, 38, opted for abdominoplasty – aka tummy tuck surgery – following the birth of her two children. Despite more than five years of trying to get her stomach back into shape, she was left with a ridge where the muscle wall wouldn’t go back into place.
“I’ve tried over the past five years, but I can’t get the muscle wall in my stomach to come back,” she said.
“I can’t lose anything around the waist, despite diet and exercise. I just don’t feel good and strong and healthy. I’m not planning to wear a bikini afterwards,” she added.
Treadwell is just one example of the many people opting for surgery to look and feel good about themselves, and figures suggest that demand will continue to rise over the next few years.
Cosmetic surgeons have noticed a rise in the number of women enquiring about tummy tuck surgery, liposuction and breast augmentation in the run up to summer.
New Jersey plastic surgeon, Dr Christopher Godek, said: “Recently, we have seen an increase in the number of women choosing plastic surgery to help them remove signs of pregnancy and childbirth so they look better in summer wear.
“Sometimes this series of procedures is known as the ‘Mommy Makeover.’ It combines a tummy tuck with liposuction and breast augmentation.”
Experts are advising that women considering these procedures book in soon, to give them enough time to have fully recovered before they slip on their summer clothes. Surgeons also recommend that only those women who are not planning to have any more children undergo the combination of procedures, and that these women should be close to their ideal weight and be in full health.
The business of going abroad for cosmetic surgery procedures is now worth an estimated £2 billion a year, according to a report by The Sun.
According to the story, published online today, more than 60,000 Brits fly to clinics and hospitals around the world each year to find cheap cosmetic surgery. But experts warn that a decision to undergo serious and complex operations such as tummy tucks and liposuction should not be based solely on price.
Leading UK-based plastic surgeon Simon Withey said: “Flying out for an operation is far from ideal. You are asking for trouble”.
While the cut-price surgery offered in foreign countries may be tempting, consumers are warned that “post-operative complications can lead to misery and added costs”, and are advised to visit registered clinics in the UK and Ireland instead.
The NHS is looking to cut the number of surgical procedures it carries out such as non-essential nose jobs and tummy tucks, in a bid to save money.
The recession means that local Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) across the UK are looking at ways to reduce costs without cutting back on essential healthcare services.
Manchester PCT has recently introduced a system that will sift through all GP referrals and deny cosmetic treatments such as tummy tucks and nose jobs which have not been advised as a way of treating a medical problem or condition.
Liam McGrogan, chair of NHS Manchester’s Clinic Commissioning Committee, said: “It is ensuring that public money is only used to pay for treatment which is clinically effective”.
Before these cuts were introduced, rhinoplasty (nose job) operations and other plastic surgery procedures were carried out for free by the NHS for those people with a medical need. Some cosmetic procedures were also carried out for those who were believed to be suffering serious emotional distress as a direct result of the way they looked.
No amount of exercise can tackle the loose skin that often remains after significant or sudden weight loss, according to online newspaper American Health and Beauty.
Patients who have worked hard to lose weight can often be left disappointed with their new bodies, when the skin on their stomachs, thighs, buttocks, arms, and face does not spring tightly back into place.
Folds of skin can occur on any area of the body where large amounts of fatty tissue have been lost, and cosmetic surgery is often the only way to rid the body of these and create a smooth, taut appearance.
On American television show The Doctors, plastic surgeon Dr Drew Ordon described how, after fat is lost, nothing remains to fill the skin out and surgical procedures such as tummy tucks, and body lifts such as thigh lifts, and breast lifts, can help to achieve the body people want.
One in four women over the age of 40 believes that they are in need of cosmetic surgery or plastic surgery, a recent study has revealed.
Research carried out by the high street chemist Superdrug showed that 33 per cent of women in this age group feel they are under pressure to look younger and that cosmetic surgery may be the only way to achieve this.
Superdrug reported that one in five of those women surveyed would consider a surgical procedure if they could afford to. The study was carried out following research by Saga, which revealed that women over the age of 50 are under more pressure to look youthful than previous generations were.
Women in working environments such as offices seem to be under the most pressure, feeling the need to look younger in order to compete with colleagues, opting to undergo popular cosmetic surgery procedures such as face lifts and tummy tucks, and non-surgical procedures such as Botox.
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