More and more Americans are opting to enhance their assets. According to a new report from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), 15.1 million cosmetic surgery procedures took place in the United States in 2013 – up 3 percent from the previous year.
While breast augmentations and nose reshaping (rhinoplasty) are still the most popular surgical procedures, butt augmentations are also on the rise. Nearly 10,000 procedures took place in 2013, an increase of 16 percent from 2012. The report also noted that neck lifts have become very popular, as it is one of the first areas of the body to show a person’s age. More than 55,000 neck procedures were performed in 2013.
ASPS President Dr. Robert Murphy said advancements in technology have ultimately paved the way for growth of the plastic surgery industry.
“The demand for plastic surgery remains strong, with our statistics showing increases in both cosmetic surgical and minimally-invasive procedures,” Murphy said in a press release. “… With new devices and products hitting the market each year, there are more options and choices available to consumers wanting to refresh their look or a little nip and tuck.”
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Summer will be hear before we know it, and with the warm weather also comes a change in wardrobe. People will soon be abandoning their pants and jackets for cooler shorts, tank tops, and dresses. Some can’t wait to soak up the sun and enjoy the activities of summer, while others are more reluctant to be seen in a bikini or swim trunks at the beach or local pool. Especially with the hot days we have here in Texas, covering up during the summer is almost out of the question and definitely out of the comfort zone. If you’re hesitant to embrace the more revealing attire of summer because you’re unhappy with the appearance of your body, now is the time to make a change so that you’ll be ready to strut your stuff when the warm weather arrives.
If diet and exercise have failed to achieve the results you desire, the Dr. Bishara and The Paragon Plastic Surgery & Med Spa in Mansfield and Southlake can get your body summer-ready. We offer the following body contouring procedures:
- Breast Augmentation
- Breast Lift
- But Lift
- Tummy Tuck/ Abdominoplasty
- Liposuction
- Thigh Lift
- Cosmetic Surgery after Weight Loss
- Laser Skin Tightening
Please contact our office at (817) 473-2120, for more information on getting bikini or swimsuit ready or visit our website at www.MarkBisharaMD.com
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While other kids were out getting their driver licenses when they were 16, Lisa Kudrow did something else “life-altering”: She got a nose job.
The “Web Therapy” star recently turned 50 and opened up about childhood and young adult events that affected her.
The nose job “was life-altering,” Kudrow told Lawrence Grobel in the Saturday Evening Post. “I went from, in my mind, hideous, to not hideous. I did it the summer before going to a new high school. So there were plenty of people who wouldn’t know how hideous I looked before. That was a good, good, good change.”
The “Friends” star, who went on to win an Emmy for supporting actress in 1998, explained that she was isolated in junior high after her two best friends said they didn’t want to be friends with her anymore.
“It was just mean. And all of junior high felt upside down to me,” she said. “It was not, like, the nice people who were popular; it wasn’t the most entertaining people — it was the meanest people who were popular. We were reading ‘Macbeth’ at the time, and I remember the three witches: ‘What’s fair is foul and foul is fair.’ That’s all I could hear in my head during that whole period. When my friends dropped me, I was asking my parents, ‘What did I do?'”
Kudrow’s sister — seven years her senior — rescued her.
“She did, definitely. Unbelievable of her too, because I was 13 and she was 20,” she said. “She would find out when our half-days were, when everyone would go out to lunch and I would have no one to eat with. She would pick me up and take me to lunch. That’s extraordinary to me. It was just very generous of her to be so sensitive and aware, even though there was nothing anyone could do.”
“I had always thought that fame would give you permission to lighten up on yourself. If everybody else likes you, you could finally have permission to love yourself. It’s not true,” she said.
This information is brought to you courtesy of Dr. Mark Bishara and The Paragon Plastic Surgery & Med Spa in Mansfield and Southlake, TX
The nose job “was life-altering,” Kudrow told Lawrence Grobel in the Saturday Evening Post. “I went from, in my mind, hideous, to not hideous. I did it the summer before going to a new high school. So there were plenty of people who wouldn’t know how hideous I looked before. That was a good, good, good change.”
The “Friends” star, who went on to win an Emmy for supporting actress in 1998, explained that she was isolated in junior high after her two best friends said they didn’t want to be friends with her anymore.
“It was just mean. And all of junior high felt upside down to me,” she said. “It was not, like, the nice people who were popular; it wasn’t the most entertaining people — it was the meanest people who were popular. We were reading ‘Macbeth’ at the time, and I remember the three witches: ‘What’s fair is foul and foul is fair.’ That’s all I could hear in my head during that whole period. When my friends dropped me, I was asking my parents, ‘What did I do?'”
Kudrow’s sister — seven years her senior — rescued her.
“She did, definitely. Unbelievable of her too, because I was 13 and she was 20,” she said. “She would find out when our half-days were, when everyone would go out to lunch and I would have no one to eat with. She would pick me up and take me to lunch. That’s extraordinary to me. It was just very generous of her to be so sensitive and aware, even though there was nothing anyone could do.”
“I had always thought that fame would give you permission to lighten up on yourself. If everybody else likes you, you could finally have permission to love yourself. It’s not true,” she said.
This information is brought to you courtesy of Dr. Mark Bishara and The Paragon Plastic Surgery & Med Spa in Mansfield and Southlake, TX
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An article in The New York Times
The deep horizontal lines across his forehead and the yawning crevices between his brows bothered Michael Ross. In younger days, he said, he had baked too often in the sun, using a double record album covered in aluminum foil as a reflector.
”I take care of my body,” said Mr. Ross, now 42 and a middle school teacher. ”In a tank top and shorts, I look younger than the average 40-year-old. I was concerned that, from the neck up, I didn’t.”
That is why Mr. Ross, who lives in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., was on the examining table one recent afternoon in the Great Neck office of Dr. Lyle S. Leipziger, chief of plastic surgery at North Shore University Hospital-Long Island Jewish Medical Center. He was there for a procedure that has rejuvenated many a female face of his acquaintance: a Botox tuneup.
”Smile for me, nice and big,” Dr. Leipziger instructed, and the wrinkles needing reduction stood out. The doctor stuck a slim needle into the crow’s feet around Mr. Ross’s eyes and injected them with botulinum toxin (Botox).
On an island where women already jam plastic surgeons’ offices, Dr. Leipziger and others have also been seeing a rise in the number of men who want to look fresher or who think that success in the workplace demands a more youthful appearance.
”Men now look in the mirror just as much as women,” Dr. Leipziger said. ”The desire to look good transcends the sexes.”
More men seem to be adding a stop at the plastic surgeon’s office to maintenance regimes that go far beyond a daily shave. Affluent suburban men are pampering themselves at day spas and salons with facials, manicures and pedicures, following trails well worn by women.
Though his thrice-yearly Botox treatments are still not a topic he’s very likely to bring up on the golf course, Mr. Ross says male friends frequently comment on how relaxed his face looks, even if they can’t quite figure out why.
Men still account for only about one-eighth of the 10 million cosmetic surgery procedures performed nationwide in 2005, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, but their share has risen by 44 percent in the last five years.
”Men have become much more comfortable seeking plastic surgery,” Dr. Leipziger said.
More than 313,000 Botox injections, the most popular minimally invasive procedure, were given to men last year. Ranking next in popularity were laser hair removal, microdermabrasion and Restylane injections to plump sagging facial folds.
Because men’s muscles tend to be thicker than women’s, Dr. Leipziger said, more Botox is needed to achieve the same result. He told Mr. Ross that it would be two weeks before full results were visible.
Men are choosing more-permanent procedures as well. The most popular last year, according to the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, were liposuction, nose reshaping (or rhinoplasty), blepharoplasty to remove bags and tighten the eyelids, breast reduction and face-lifts.
Dr. Michael Setzen, chief of rhinology at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, said that he had seen a 25 percent jump in men wanting nose jobs. Typically, he said, they come to his Manhasset office complaining of nasal congestion or sinusitis and then slip in remarks about disliking the bumps on their noses. He uses computer images to show what surgery could do for them.
”Men are very concerned how they will look afterward,” Dr. Setzen said. ”They don’t want to look feminine, they want to look very much like they do look, but they want the bump corrected.” Women, on the other hand, usually want a clear change, and may come in asking for a Nicole Kidman nose, he said.
Chin augmentations are also popular with men. ”Men are interested in a strong chin — that is a male dominant feature,” Dr. Setzen said.
South of the face, male patients often want help ridding themselves of persistent love handles or may be embarrassed by enlarged breasts, a condition known as gynecomastia.
Last month, Philip Shenassa, 46, a businessman from Kings Point, underwent breast reduction surgery.
”It bothered me for a long time,” Mr. Shenassa said. ”I was sensitive and constantly aware of it.”
He said that the surgery to firm up his chest, done by Dr. Leipziger, had made his looks much more professional.
”If you can improve your appearance and your self-confidence, what is wrong with it?” Mr. Shenassa said. ”If you know what you want from life, you should go for it and do it.”
Dr. Leipziger, who at 46 has naturally boyish good looks, said he hadn’t had any cosmetic surgery himself.
”But if I needed it, I would,” he added.
This News is Brought to you Courtesy of Dr. Mark Bishara and The Paragon Plastic Surgery & Med Spa in Mansfield and Southlake, TX
”Smile for me, nice and big,” Dr. Leipziger instructed, and the wrinkles needing reduction stood out. The doctor stuck a slim needle into the crow’s feet around Mr. Ross’s eyes and injected them with botulinum toxin (Botox).
On an island where women already jam plastic surgeons’ offices, Dr. Leipziger and others have also been seeing a rise in the number of men who want to look fresher or who think that success in the workplace demands a more youthful appearance.
”Men now look in the mirror just as much as women,” Dr. Leipziger said. ”The desire to look good transcends the sexes.”
More men seem to be adding a stop at the plastic surgeon’s office to maintenance regimes that go far beyond a daily shave. Affluent suburban men are pampering themselves at day spas and salons with facials, manicures and pedicures, following trails well worn by women.
Though his thrice-yearly Botox treatments are still not a topic he’s very likely to bring up on the golf course, Mr. Ross says male friends frequently comment on how relaxed his face looks, even if they can’t quite figure out why.
Men still account for only about one-eighth of the 10 million cosmetic surgery procedures performed nationwide in 2005, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, but their share has risen by 44 percent in the last five years.
”Men have become much more comfortable seeking plastic surgery,” Dr. Leipziger said.
More than 313,000 Botox injections, the most popular minimally invasive procedure, were given to men last year. Ranking next in popularity were laser hair removal, microdermabrasion and Restylane injections to plump sagging facial folds.
Because men’s muscles tend to be thicker than women’s, Dr. Leipziger said, more Botox is needed to achieve the same result. He told Mr. Ross that it would be two weeks before full results were visible.
Men are choosing more-permanent procedures as well. The most popular last year, according to the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, were liposuction, nose reshaping (or rhinoplasty), blepharoplasty to remove bags and tighten the eyelids, breast reduction and face-lifts.
Dr. Michael Setzen, chief of rhinology at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, said that he had seen a 25 percent jump in men wanting nose jobs. Typically, he said, they come to his Manhasset office complaining of nasal congestion or sinusitis and then slip in remarks about disliking the bumps on their noses. He uses computer images to show what surgery could do for them.
”Men are very concerned how they will look afterward,” Dr. Setzen said. ”They don’t want to look feminine, they want to look very much like they do look, but they want the bump corrected.” Women, on the other hand, usually want a clear change, and may come in asking for a Nicole Kidman nose, he said.
Chin augmentations are also popular with men. ”Men are interested in a strong chin — that is a male dominant feature,” Dr. Setzen said.
South of the face, male patients often want help ridding themselves of persistent love handles or may be embarrassed by enlarged breasts, a condition known as gynecomastia.
Last month, Philip Shenassa, 46, a businessman from Kings Point, underwent breast reduction surgery.
”It bothered me for a long time,” Mr. Shenassa said. ”I was sensitive and constantly aware of it.”
He said that the surgery to firm up his chest, done by Dr. Leipziger, had made his looks much more professional.
”If you can improve your appearance and your self-confidence, what is wrong with it?” Mr. Shenassa said. ”If you know what you want from life, you should go for it and do it.”
Dr. Leipziger, who at 46 has naturally boyish good looks, said he hadn’t had any cosmetic surgery himself.
”But if I needed it, I would,” he added.
This News is Brought to you Courtesy of Dr. Mark Bishara and The Paragon Plastic Surgery & Med Spa in Mansfield and Southlake, TX
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