Americans Lead the World in Remaking Themselves 0
Science 2.0 (Scientific Blogging under a new name) reports that the United States has more plastic surgeries (“procedures” if you want to pretend they aren’t “operations”) than any other country.
It does not surprise that the majority are cosmetic. Worldwide rankings of the top procedures are:
The popularity of surgical procedures varied by country with Brazil, the United States, China, Mexico, India and Japan the dominant countries for the top five procedures.
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The top five non surgical procedures are: toxins or neuromodulators injections (Botox, Dysport) (32.7%), hyaluronic acid injections (20.1%), laser hair removal (13.1%), autologous fat injections (taking a patient’s fat from one location and transferring it in the same patient in another location) (5.9%) and IP Laser treatment (4.4%).
Lots of money for not much of anything, if you ask me. Or even if you don’t.
