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Rising Popularity Of Cosmetic Surgery

The popularity of plastic surgery as a socially acceptable form of body modification has created a booming cosmetic surgery industry. More than 9 million cosmetic surgical pro-cedures were performed in 2004, a 24 percent increase over 200Q.1 Despite the prevalence of cosmetic surgery, little is known about who is most interested in cosmetic surgery and why.


The present study of over 50,000 men and women examined how gender, age, marital sta-tus, body fat level, body satisfaction, and invest-ment in one's appearance were associated with interest in cosmetic surgery. These findings may be useful to researchers, plastic surgeons, and others seeking to understand the growing inter-est in cosmetic surgery.
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