Plastic Surgery and Baby Boomers

Plastic Surgery Statistics Comments (1)

Everybody between the ages of 45 and 63 belongs to the one of the largest U.S. population groups ever – the “Baby Boomers”.

Demographers say that group travels through the entire population like a gopher through a garden snake. In other words, there are a lot of them!

For instance, the current U.S. problems with social security and health care are largely fueled by Baby Boomers who soak up a lot of everything – plastic surgery included!

Boomers had 8.90 million cosmetic surgery procedures from a total of 12.1 million , according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).

The most popular Boomer procedures include:

• Botox, hands down

In 2008, the most current year for which statistics are available, the age group 40 to 55 and over had 3,982,507 Botox injections figures the ASPS.*

That is 80 percent of all Botox given to 5.04 million patients.

• Eyelid surgery

The Baby Boomer age group had about 200,893 blepharoplasty procedures, or 90 percent of all 221,398 eyelid lift procedures says the ASPS.

• Liposuction

According to the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) the age group 35 to 64 had 230,848 liposuction procedures in ‘08. That’s 69.5 percent of all 341,144 liposuction cases.

• Breast augmentation

ASAPS statisticians found 178,291 breast enhancements in the age ranges that include Boomers for half of the total 2008 355,671 boob jobs.

But the procedure falls off with age. Women 35 to 50 had 147,465 breast enlargement surgeries while women 51 to 64 only had 91,806.

• Rhinoplasty

ASAPS statics show 59,514 nose surgery patients in age range 35 to 64.

That accounts for 39.1 percent of all 153,434 nose jobs done during 2008.

• Tummy Tuck

Of a total 147,392 abdominoplasties in 2008, the ASAPS counted 114,003 done in the age range 35 to 64. That’s 77.3 percent of all tummy tuck operations.

(You could probably knock five percent off the totals to account for the procedures of people 40 to 45 and the 64 year olds.)

*Nobody keeps exact statistics on Baby Boomers. But the age range classifications at the two largest professional plastic surgery societies contain 95 percent Baby Boomers.

admin @ October 3, 2009