American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery 2009 Statistics were recently published.  They showed that in 2009 there was a 2 percent decrease from 2008 in total number of cosmetic procedures.  Surgical procedures were down somewhat by 17 percent but noninvasive procedures such as Botox were actually up 1 percent.  The total number of procedures performed was 9,993,711 or almost 10 million procedures!

Interestingly, breast augmentation was the most common procedure performed with 311,957 augmentations accounted for.  Liposuction was a close second with 283,735 procedures counted.

In the nonsurgical arena, Botox and Dysport were the most common procedures with 2,557,068 injections performed and Fillers such as Juvederm, Restylane totaled 1,313,031.

Interestingly women had over 90% of all procedures with men receiving around 9% of them.  44% of the patients were between the ages of 35-50.

While the total numbers may be slightly down, in a time where the American economy is in trouble, it is amazing how popular and important plastic surgery procedures remain.

Best regards,

Evan Sorokin