With Hollywood putting increasing pressure on society and reality shows obsessing over body image, high percentages of the masses have been inspired to go under the knife seeking nips here and tucks there to spruce up the reflection they see in the mirror. Some plastic surgeries are corrective and some are for medical reasons beyond the superficiality of its stigma. The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) recently released their 2008 statistics with some surprising results perhaps due to the dwindling economy.

Cosmetic surgery procedures mostly declined during 2008 at least 10 percent and in some cases more, there is an interesting fairly new procedure that rose a bit during the last year. Alan Gold, MD, President of ASAPS says that the reason for the smaller numbers from 2008 is obviously the recession we have all been facing, “It’s clearly the economy, and people’s concerns about their future income, their time off from work to have a procedure, and recovery from that,” Gold hopes that once the economy bounces back the cosmetic procedures both surgical and nonsurgical will most likely as well, “Maybe not this year—it might be next year.”

Besides the popular cup-size boost, another positive in the report was the surprise upshoot of laser skin resurfacing which uses a quick and easy procedure different from earlier versions with the same results. Over 500,000 laser resurfacings were done in 2008—number five of the top five nonsurgical procedures following Botox, laser hair removal, hyaluronic acid (including Restylane), and chemical peels—most likely because of their less expensive price tag and small amount of recovery time.

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