Breast Augmentation Statistics

Breast augmentation surgery has become one of the most performed surgeries among the various plastic surgeries. American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery has recently done a study on classification, analysis, and interpretation of numerical facts on breast augmentation. According to their evaluation on breast augmentation techniques, since 1997, there has been an increase of 147%, which is a highly remarkable, approving change in the science of plastic surgery.

Their study moreover is not within the confines of breast reconstruction, but to the various factors that pave way for such surgeries. When considering year-by-year statistics of breast augmentation, it is important to note that there were more than 8.7 million procedures done by women to restore their physical appearance through breast augmentation. Another surprising fact is that there was an unimaginable support from the public, last year, conspicuously on plastic surgery.

Moreover there has been an improvement in the surgical procedures as there is a decrease in non-surgical procedures. Between the silicone and saline breast augmentation, silicone gained more prominence in the year 2006, as compared to 2004 for when it had the third place. To categorize in numbers, breast augmentation can be given the second place in plastic surgery. Young women aged less than 18, have done less surgeries than the aged women with 50% increase. Statistics of the breast implant removal surgeries performed by ASAP surgeons have decreased from the last year, contrary to the breast lift procedures with a majority done by ASAP surgeons. Male breast reduction has also noticed a fall when compared to the previous year, especially the ones preformed by the ASAP surgeons.

A relevant remark that can be made here is that breast augmentation is not a cosmetic surgery that is only meant for the rich. People of all classes are bound to the idea of retaining their youthful appearance, and it is these cosmetic surgeries that provide a platform for individual betterment. Innovation of such cosmetic surgeries is a boon to the present era.

Modern women are no more embarrassed of smaller or asymmetrical breasts. They are no more worried about wearing a bikini or a nightgown that highlight their busts. Breast augmentation has really boosted the self-confidence of both young and old women, by entirely giving them a new shape. The research by the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery on breast augmentation is a landmark in cosmetic and plastic surgery and science.