Every fifth plastics in the world do in the United States

The Americans held the largest number of plastic surgery among the residents of all other countries. Such data are contained in the report of the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery.

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And we are talking about cosmetic surgery, breast augmentation surgery instead of mastectomy or face disaster recovery. In 2011 (the information is available so far only for this year) is America topped the ranking of countries with the highest total number of rhinoplasty, liposuction and facelift. The USA had 17, 1% of all cosmetic procedures performed in the world. In fact, in America it carried out every fifth Plastic surgery .

In second place in the rankings is Brazil, where the year was carried out 900 thousand transactions. The most popular in the world of plastics has become a liposuction. The top five also includes breast augmentation, facelift, tummy tuck and eyelid surgery (blepharoplasty). The ten leading countries in the number of plastic surgeries after the US and Brazil also hit China, Japan, Italy, Mexico, South Korea, France, India and Germany. It should be noted that last year, according to various statistics, the second place could come out of South Korea, which has unequivocally leads in the rating number of procedures per capita.

The plastic surgery industry and other experts have noted an interesting feature. Although nearly 90% of all cosmetic surgeries and procedures performed on women, plastic surgery is a man's world. Especially in the United States, where in a huge state of Texas, for example, runs only one (!) Certified plastic surgeon female. A similar situation is observed in Russia, where male doctors also dominate, although the number of women in our plastic surgeons still significantly higher. (READ MORE)

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