The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) has released the 2023 ASPS Procedural Statistics, which showed a 5 percent rise in plastic surgeries and a 7 percent rise in minimally invasive procedures compared to the previous year.
Women are predominantly the ones filling the waiting rooms at plastic surgery offices and booking appointments for cosmetic treatments. In fact, they make up a whopping 90 percent of all patients. So, what drives this?
Most plastic surgery procedures cause some scarring. Patients often determine the success of their surgery by how visible the scars are. Scarring is inevitable with surgery, but there are many different ways to make them less noticeable.
"The act of going through surgery, it will change your body, and it may be difficult to accept those new changes, and also having realistic expectations are very important. I think having a therapist partner as part of your comprehensive plastic surgery team is very important."
Despite steady increases in rates of immediate breast reconstruction (IBR) after mastectomy, racial disparities in IBR have persisted in the years since implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), reports a study in the May issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).
