UK tops Euro plastic surgery league

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UK tops Euro plastic surgery league

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1867098.stm

 

Plastic surgery is becoming more popular

 

More cosmetic plastic surgery operations are carried out in the UK than any

other European country, figures reveal.

Figures from the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery found

that surgeons carried out 24,336 in the UK in 2000.

 

However, that number was dwarfed by the massive 143,676 procedures carried

out in the US - nearly 40% of the world-wide total.

 

Most plastic surgery operations

US 143,676

Brazil 66,090

UK 24,336

France 21,221

Mexico 16,957

Switzerland 16,062

The UK came third on the list, behind the US and ahead of Brazil.

 

The most popular procedure in the UK was the Botox injection.

 

This involves getting rid of wrinkles and lines by injecting a form of the

botulinum toxin just under the skin.

 

The second most popular operation was the collagen injection to plump up

wrinkles and lips.

 

Third was laser skin resurfacing in which dead skin is blasted away to

reveal a clearer complexion.

 

Conservative approach

 

World-wide the most common plastic surgery procedure was liposuction

followed by breast augmentation and Botox injection.

 

 

 

For the British going for something surgical is a big step

 

 

Luis Toledo

The ISAPS said Europeans have a " more conservative attitude " towards

plastic surgery than their American counterparts for whom radical procedures

such as face lifts and buttock lifts are more commonplace.

 

Luis Toledo, director of communications, told BBC News Online: " In Brazil

and the US plastic surgery has been made extremely popular, not just by

surgeons, but by magazines and television.

 

" But for the British going for something surgical is a big step. "

 

Mr Clive Orton, of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons,

said: " There has been an exponential growth in interest in plastic surgery

in the UK over the last 10-15 years, and that is continuing.

 

" I don't buy the assumption that the British are conservative. We are not

conservative about music, fashion or design and I don't think there is an

old fashioned attitude towards plastic surgery in the way that there used to

be. "

 

The figures show that world-wide nearly nine out of ten plastic surgery

patients are women.

 

But in Turkey, Sweden and Japan more than 20% of the patients are male.

 

Among men, the most common procedures are rhinoplasty (nose surgery),

blepharoplasty (cosmetic eyelid surgery) and Botox injection.

 

Mexico has the highest percentage of teenage patients - 28.7%. The UK has

the lowest proportion at 0.66%.

 

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