New statistics from the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (www.baaps.org.uk); which represents the vast majority of NHS-trained consultant plastic surgeons in private practice reveal that the number of cosmetic ops last year increased 17% on average. Amazingly, not one individual procedure decreased in popularity.
It seems that austerity has given way to augmentation as double-digit rises are evident in all cosmetic procedures – a trend not seen since the heady pre-recession days of 2008.
The number of total surgical procedures in 2013 rose above 50,000 and their order of popularity for men and women combined has remained entirely unchanged for the past five years.
Highlights:
- Last year saw 50,122 procedures performed, a rise of 16.5% on average overall; but every one of the cosmetic ops monitored individually also showed a double-digit rise across the board. Such a significant increase has not been seen since before 2008.
- The year 2013 also recorded 41% rise in liposuction procedures; possibly a backlash against the many non-surgical treatments for body contouring which may have proven less effective than advertised.
- Breast augmentation (‘boob jobs’) saw an increase of 13%: despite the PIP scandal, demand for the procedure doesn’t appear to have significantly diminished in the longer term. Breast augmentation remains the top surgical procedure in the UK.
- Women are increasingly turning to liposuction, as the procedure increased by an impressive 43% and rising in popularity among females to 6th place from 8th place in 2012.
- Antiageing procedures also continued to prove popular among men and women, with eyelid surgery up by 14%, face and neck lifts up by 13%, fat transfer (where fat is injected into the face to add volume) by 15% and brows rose by an expressive 17%.
- Male surgery numbers rose by 16% overall but the proportion held steady from last year, with men still accounting for one in ten (9.5%) aesthetic plastic surgery procedures.
- Body contouring procedures showed the biggest increase among males, with liposuction up by 28% and gynaecomastia (or ‘man boobs’) up by a quarter (24%).
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