Cosmetic surgery is undoubtedly one of the top tools we have to counteract the signs of aging. If you haven’t already had a cosmetic procedure done, you have probably at least wondered about it; how safe it is, how good the results would be, how much it would cost, and who’s had work done. Tabloids speculate about the cosmetic procedures celebrities have used to stay looking young, and we wonder if we could achieve the same results.

There are a wide variety of cosmetic procedures and surgeries available to anti-aging consumers. These procedures range dramatically in price, results yielded, and recovery time. The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery calculated the total number of cosmetic procedures performed in 2007 at 11.7 million, up roughly 200,000 from the year before. Botox® and liposuction led the cosmetic procedure trends, with breast augmentation, eyelid surgery, and hyaluronic acid treatments rounding out the top 5 surgical and non-surgical cosmetic procedures.

As far as trends in cosmetic procedures go, there is clearly a shift toward non-surgical procedures as they now account for 82% of the total cosmetic procedures in 2007. New research and improved technology is making it increasingly possible for dermatologists and plastic surgeons to offer effective non-surgical options for removing wrinkles and other signs of aging.

Customers for anti-aging cosmetic procedures are unsurprisingly primarily female. However, trends show that more and more men are jumping on the anti-aging bandwagon. Men surpassed women in hair transplantation and are nearly equal to women in otoplasty or cosmetic ear surgery. Men are also lining up in larger numbers for the quick and relatively noninvasive Botox® injections.

As far as prices go, cosmetic procedures range in cost anywhere from $130 to $8,000 per procedure on a national average. Overall, the statistics regarding cosmetic surgery and other procedures shows a general trend in the population toward aggressively fighting the signs of aging. Many less invasive procedures available today offer clients the option of looking younger without breaking their bank accounts or taking weeks off work to recover. The anti-aging options are out there, it’s just a matter of researching and choosing the procedure that’s right for you.

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