Most women, and large numbers of men, are interested in having cosmetic surgery, UCLA scientists report in the October issue of the Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Forty-eight percent of women surveyed said they would be interested in cosmetic surgery, liposuction or both, and another 23 percent said they would possibly be interested. Among men, 23 percent said they would be interested in surgery, with 17 percent expressing possible interest. Over 3% of the American population had cosmetic surgery in 2006. According to the American Association of Plastic Surgeons, nearly 11 million cosmetic surgery procedures were performed in 2006 — a 48 percent increase from 2000. Roughly 90 percent of cosmetic surgeries in 2004 were performed on women.
British women magazine “New Women” have conducted a number of polls found that 90% of women believe that their body shape or appearance “is very disappointing.” To plastic surgery, they showed a very positive attitude. Nearly 70% of the people are willing to consider doing some kind of plastic surgery, of which 26% think they must do plastic surgery. For breast augmentation, mostly women think it is acceptable, 1/3 of the female think breast augmentation do good for career, 78% of women think that men prefer women to do breast augmentation surgery. In UK, the popularity degree of plastic surgery is: liposuction, wrinkle reduction, breast augmentation, nose repair, chest and skin reduction and recycling. Among the women who had cosmetic surgery, 3/4 of them expressed that their quality of life has improved, 71%of them want to do surgery again.
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