The attraction to having plastic surgery procedures has increased over the decades as specific cosmetic procedures have become more advanced and acceptable in society. Today, celebrities are more upfront and honest about their cosmetic surgery, which dramatically influences other people’s decision to receive a cosmetic procedure themselves. Plastic surgery has become wildly popular for both women and men in recent years, using different cosmetic procedures to enhance various features on the body and face.
With more people participating in cosmetic surgery, you have to ask, which procedures are the most popular among plastic surgery patients? We have gathered the top 10 most popular plastic surgery procedures that both women and men currently are taking part in to restore or reconstruct their bodies.
#1 Facelift/ Rhytidectomy
As a person stares intensely at themselves in a mirror and views how life has made evident claims on specific facial features, many begin to think about having a facelift to reverse the hands of time.
A facelift or a Rhytidectomy is a cosmetic procedure that reduces the appearance of wrinkles and aging, sagging facial skin. This particular facial surgery involves a surgeon carefully making an incision around the front of a patient’s ear and behind their hairline to remove any excess skin to tighten and smooth the patient’s face. Sutures are placed along the incision lines and are often removed ten days after the facelift procedure.
After having a facelift, it is normal for a patient to look worse before they begin to look better with the changes. Patients will experience typical bruising and swelling that will fade over the recovery period. During this time, patients will slowly begin to see their facelift results as they begin to heal. Recovery time for a facelift will vary between patients as age and health status contribute to full recovery time.
Many patients who elect for a facelift also have other cosmetic procedures such as eyelid surgery, forehead lifts, botox injections, and skin peels to reinforce youthful images.
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#2 Eyelid Surgery/ Blepharoplasty
Over time, a person’s skin begins to naturally lose firmness, leading to drooping and sagging skin in areas visible to others. Eyelid skin falls under the category of a person’s body that has a hard time standing up against the age of time. Eyelid skin is much thinner than most places around the face, and it tends to display the beginning of signs of aging faster than other parts of the body. As the skin sags over the eyelid’s tip, many patients want to reduce this imperfection and return to a more youthful resemblance. However, eyelid surgery is not just for youthful looks but also performed for patients looking to improve their vision as the excess skin restricts eyesight.
In a Blepharoplasty or eyelid surgery, a surgeon extracts the extra skin and fat around the eyelid and tightens the eyelid’s muscle tissue. Eyelid surgery is typically performed as an outpatient procedure and requires local anesthesia and sedation. Blepharoplasty cosmetic surgery typically takes 30 minutes to an hour, depending on whether the surgery is being performed on the lower and upper eyelids.
Patients may expect to experience very mild bruising, swelling, dry eyes, and irritation. After surgery, care includes not wearing contacts or make up for a few weeks, and the recommendation of wearing dark sunglasses to protect eyes from outside weather. Stitches are removed three to five days after surgery and patients can return to normal activities within a few days to a week.
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#3 Nose Job/ Rhinoplasty
A nose on a person’s face seems to draw significant attention as it tends to be one of the focal point of the face as a whole. Nose jobs or rhinoplasty is a popular cosmetic surgery or first choice procedure that many patients consider when improving certain facial features. The procedure involves a skilled surgeon reshaping a patient’s nose to reduce the overall size or refine specific parts of the nose to add a more attractive appearance. However, some nose job procedure cases can improve breathing issues for some patients, such as an operation to a deviated septum.
A nose job surgery requires a plastic surgeon to form cuts within a patient’s nostrils, and in some cases, the surgeon will make cuts across the base of the nose. A plastic surgeon reshapes the inner cartilage and bone during the procedure to create an enhanced, flattering appearance.
Rhinoplasty or nose job surgeries occur in an outpatient setting, which requires no overnight stay. This kind of cosmetic surgery requires patients to receive local and general anesthesia. General anesthesia allows patients to be fully asleep during the operation. In contrast, the local anesthesia sedates patients, and their nose will be numb to reduce the feeling of pain.
Recovery for a nose job involves a patient wearing a nasal splint for the first week and expected to have swelling and bruising around the nose and lower eye areas of the face. The swelling and bruising will fade over the weeks following the procedure, and patients will see the final shape of their new nose after the nose has completely healed. Complete healing can take months as scars, swelling, and bruises dissipate.
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#4 Neck Lift/ Platysmaplasty
The appearance of someone’s neck is another sign of aging as the skin loses its elasticity and begins to sag and droop. As with most cosmetic procedures, a neck lift involves removing the excess skin and fat around a patient’s jawline in creating a more defined and younger-looking neck. In a neck lift procedure, surgeons commonly tighten the platysma muscle along the neck to enhance a patient’s neck’s overall appearance.
This neck lift or Platysmaplasty cosmetic surgery is an outpatient procedure and takes a few hours to complete. A plastic surgeon performs a small incision behind and around the ear and under a patient’s chin. The removes excess fat and skin, and the surgeon tightens the muscles in the patient’s neck. A neck lift surgery can occur in the surgeon’s office-based surgical facility, an outpatient surgery center, or a hospital. A patient can receive either general or local anesthesia to be fully asleep and relaxed during surgery.
Patients recovering from a Platysmaplasty cosmetic surgery will notice pain, bruising, and swelling for the first few weeks after surgery. Many patients see that their necks may feel tight but not overall painful. Scars from this particular plastic surgery are minimal and are hidden around the contours of patients’ ears and under their chin. Surgeons recommend patients to avoid any heavy lifting for the first weeks of recovery.
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#5 Breast Augmentation/ “Boob Job”
Another popular choice for plastic surgery is a breast augmentation which is a procedure to enhance a woman’s breasts. This procedure is a wildly popular plastic surgery trend with over 300,000 breast augmentation done in America every year. Many patients take part in breast augmentation cosmetic surgery for breast enlargements and improve equal breast size.
Breast augmentations involve the process of plastic surgeons placing breast implants or transferring fat to increase the size or improve the symmetrical look and give a pleasing breast shape. There are two types of implants, silicone and saline, and both present a different feel and appearance of a patient’s breast. Breast augmentation consists of an incision made along with various parts of a patient’s breast that are inconspicuous with minimal visible scarring. Depending on the type of breast implant, the enlargement size, and the patient’s anatomy will all be factors towards the incision.
The implant’s insertion sets an implant into a pocket either under the pectoral muscle or over the pectoral muscle directly behind the breast tissue. Again, depending on the patient’s choice of breast implant and size, it will determine the implant position and insertion approach. Patients will experience pain and will receive extra pain relief medication for recovery care. Recommendations for patients recovering from breast augmentation are to wear a support garment or bra during their recovery time to help the healing process. Many patients’ requirements include avoiding heavy lifting for a few weeks and avoiding high impact activity during recovery.
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#6 Breast Lift/ Mastopexy
As many patients feel the need to enhance their appearance, some find a simple breast lift can yield the results they are looking for. Patients who once obtained young and perky breasts may witness natural aging or the effects of breastfeeding that can take a toll on the appearance of her breasts. A solution to help reform the breasts is a mastopexy or breast lift. At times, some patients decide to have both a breast augmentation and a breast lift if the patient finds that the overall cup size has diminished over time as well.
This mastopexy cosmetic procedure consists of a surgeon performing variations of incision patterns and techniques to receive the appropriate shape and size of the breast a patient desires. There are three common forms of incision techniques; around the areola, around and vertically down from the areola to the breast crease, and around and vertically down from the breast crease and horizontally along the breast crease. The choice of technique depends on a patient’s breast shape and size, position and size of the areolas, the degree of breast sagging, and skin elasticity and quality or amount of extra skin. Recovery time for a mastopexy is similar to any breast cosmetic surgery with care and restrictions.
#7 Breast Reduction
Many women are born with breast sizes that are too large making everyday activities uncomfortable, causing back pain, chest pain, neck pain, and more. A breast reduction can help improve posture and help reduce pain from carrying large breast. Although the number of breast augmentations tends to soar high above the amount of breast reduction yearly, breast reduction surgery has increased over the past few years as the “natural” look has come back into style.
Breast Reduction is the procedure of reducing a patient’s breast size and weight by removing excess fat found in the breast, glandular tissue, and skin to obtain a smaller breast size. During the procedure, surgeons usually perform an incision around a patient’s areola and down each breast. In breast reduction, plastic surgeons will use liposuction to remove the excess fat and reshape the breast and reposition the areola and nipple. Scarring is minimal and will fade over time. Like many cosmetic surgeries, breast reduction patients will experience tenderness, sensitivity, slight swelling, and bruising. Patients’ recovery includes a recommendation of wearing a supportive bra or compression bra to protect beasts. Restrictions also include restricted physical activities for the first weeks after surgery.
#8 Gynecomastia Treatment
A common condition that many men find the need to seek is called gynecomastia, which reduces the excessive amount of breast tissue. Some patients who want a gynecomastia treatment experience growth in their pectoral area due to genetics or steroids or marijuana use.
In many cases involving breast growth in men, cosmetic surgery consists of removing the excess breast tissue using liposuction or a mastectomy. The option for liposuction surgery extracts fat from the breast but does not remove the breast gland issues. A mastectomy is a form of surgery that does remove the breast gland tissue. The mastectomy surgery often involves only using small incisions and is less invasive with less recovery time. The incision scar is slightly visible and faces over time.
#9 Tummy tucks/ Abdominoplasty
Many patients who have seen their waist and abdomen area become loose or flabby consider having this issue corrected with an abdominoplasty or tummy tuck cosmetic surgery. Many of the types of patients that receive an abdominoplasty are often women who have excess skin around their abdomen areas after being pregnant. Also, this surgery normally is performed on patients who have lost a significant amount of weight. This surgery is not ideal for patients with excess fat deposits to be removed around their abdomen, as this is not a solution for weight loss.
A tummy tuck procedure includes a plastic surgeon removing excess skin from the abdominal section of a patient’s body and tightening the remaining skin. An abdominoplasty cosmetic procedure can also restore separated or weakened muscles to build a firmer and smoother abdominal appearance. There are different techniques for performing a tummy tuck, including a complete abdominoplasty, partial abdominoplasty, and a laparoscopic procedure. Each technique involves different incisions (placement and sizes) and involves a longer time frame in operation.
The recovery process for an abdominoplasty cosmetic procedure involves typically two to four weeks to recover. Depending on the particular technique performed, recovery time may vary, and the amount of restrictions a patient is allowed to perform.
#10 Lipo / Liposuction
For patients wanting to have a slimmer figure or improve the reshape of a particular body area, the option of the cosmetic procedure of liposuction will meet a patient’s goal of a body change. This cosmetic surgery, liposuction, target a patient’s specific body areas such as legs, thighs, hips, buttocks, waist, arms, neck, and chin to remove excess fat. However, liposuction cosmetic surgery is not a solution for weight loss but a solution to enhance a patient’s body’s contours.
There are two forms of liposuction, tumescent and Ultrasonic-Assisted, both remove a patient’s excess body fat to give a silhouette that is shapelier and slimmer. Tumescent is a popular cosmetic surgery choice for liposuction procedures. This type consists of a plastic surgeon using cannulas, a small hollow metal instrument to suction the fat out of the patient’s body. In ultrasonic-Assisted liposuction, a surgeon uses a cannula and releases ultrasonic energy to melt a patient’s body fat, and then it is suctioned out of their body. This particular liposuction procedure has more increased risks of internal and external burns and a longer surgery time than tumescent liposuction.
Recovery time for liposuction requires patients to avoid strenuous exercise and work for two to three weeks after surgery. Pain can be intense for the first few days after surgery, and patients traditionally receive pain management care. Patients will experience soreness and tenderness for a few days but will fade over time.
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