Plastic Surgery Predictions For This Year

Sometimes it is hard to keep up with all the new news coming out of the US pertaining to Cosmetic Surgery. The lovely people over at The American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) certainly have been keeping us busy of late with all of their new studies, they take some getting through but we like nothing more here at UCompare Towers.

ASAPS predictions for this year are a result of their interviewing many of the worlds top cosmetic surgeons to find out what developments they are seeing coming through at their own practices.

For starters any regulars to this blog will know that there has been a amazing increase in the diversity of patients considering undertaking cosmetic surgery over the last ten years. This trend is expected to continue apace as new procedures are developed to appeal to an ever widening audience within an ever increasing population.

The continued entry into the market of new providers of cosmetic fillers is likely to continue the desire for procedures involving cosmetic fillers such as Juvederm. As a relatively simple procedure, cosmetic filler applications are certainly on the increase.

We already know there is a much heightened awareness of the health implications of obesity, pleasingly this has led to increasing numbers of people making a concerted effort to loss weight, often considerable amounts. Inevitably where this is occurring there is an inevitable increase in procedures being undertaken to assist with realigning the body's contours post weight lose. Cosmetic surgery procedures such as lower body lifts, arm lifts, and abdominoplasty are likely to rise over the coming year.

There is a good chance that Reloxin, which is a form of botulinum, will gain approval from the Food & Drug Administration this year. If this does occur then it will compete directly with Botox. Botox has been by some margin the most popular cosmetic surgery procedure for the last half decade. Given the size of the market that Botox currently has all to itself it is likely that further products of a similar nature will also enter pre-market clinical trials over the coming year. All in all there is likely to be quite a scrap for market share in this category of cosmetic surgery, which could well lead to downward pressure on the current pricing of Botox procedures.....again time will tell.

Pop back tomorrow for more predictions for the coming year at your favourite cosmetic surgery blog from the good people at UCompare Cosmetic Surgery.

More Females Visit Cosmetic Surgeons

So a little more on the recent AACS study that we mentioned yesterday. It appears that whilst two percent fewer males visited cosmetic surgeons in 2008 there was an increase in female visits to the tune of a whopping twenty nine percent. So whilst it appears males have been cutting back on cosmetic surgery procedures in the States their female counterparts most certainly have not.

The report highlights that ladies have been undergoing less invasive procedures, possibly because they cost less and have a quicker recovery time. Procedures that fit into these categories include Botox and resurfacing via laser. Laser resurfacing has also benefited from a considerable decrease in price to the tune of $460 since 2001.

The report goes on to point out that over the last 3 years there has been a significant increase in both males and females undergoing cosmetic surgery procedures. Male patients have increased by a massive four hundred and sixty percent whilst female patients have increased by two hundred and fifteen percent. Plainly whilst the market for male procedures may be cooling off slightly at the moment, over a longer time frame the increases remain very impressive. No doubt the industry for male cosmetic surgery procedures will continue to improve apace once the economy starts recovering again......when that will be.......who knows.

Male cosmetic surgery numbers down in 2008

Those lovely people over at The American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery (AACS) have conducted another of their annual procedure surveys and the lovely people at UCompare Cosmetic Surgery have been taking a closer look. Over the next few days we will be bringing you some of the latest reports highlights.

So first off it would appear that men underwent less cosmetic surgery procedures in 2008 in the USA. The survey highlighted that throughout 2008 surgery practices had seen a full two percent decrease in male clients. This is particularly surprising given that last year was stellar in the increase of female client numbers (More of that to follow). Over recent years there have been rather similar percentage gains between the two sexes.

Liposuction remains a key procedure for males whilst laser resurfacing continues to increase in popularity, particularly as the prices has reduced by around four hundred and fifty dollars over the last seven years.