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Report: Nearly 4 million Botox treatments in 2005

Minimally invasive procedures up 53 percent in five

years

By Peggy Peck

MedPage Today Managing Editor

Friday, March 17, 2006; Posted: 12:26 p.m. EST (17:26

GMT)

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number of cosmetic procedures climbed to more than

10.2 million last year, most of them office-based,

minimally invasive cosmetic fixes such as Botox

injections.

The number of traditional plastic surgeries declined

by 5 percent over the last five years, while minimally

invasive cosmetic procedures jumped by 53 percent over

the past five years, according to a report from the

American Society of Plastic Surgeons.

The most commonly performed surgical procedure last

year was liposuction, according to the report, with

323,605 being performed.

But the number of these procedures, in which a surgeon

inserts a wand that sucks fat out of a patient's body,

was about a thousand fewer than the previous year and

down 9 percent from the 354,015 procedures done in

2000.

The rest of the top five cosmetic surgery procedures

in 2005:

Nose reshaping -- 298,413

Breast augmentation -- 291,350

Eyelid lifts -- 230,697

Tummy tucks -- 134,746

Botox bonanza

The 3.8 million Botox injections given last year were

almost five times the number performed in 2000,

according to the report, and a million more than in

2004.

Surgeons collectively billed almost $1.4 billion for

Botox treatments last year.

The other top minimally invasive procedures:

Chemical peel -- 1,033,581

Microdermabrasion -- 837,711

Laser hair removal -- 782,732

Sclerotherapy -- 589,768

But the so-called " hot " procedures such as vaginal

rejuvenation, pectoral implants, buttock implants and

calf augmentation were little more than a blip on the

plastic surgery radar.

Only 793 vaginal rejuvenation procedures were done in

2005, the first year for which data were available.

Likewise, there were only 206 pectoral implants and

337 calf augmentations done last year.

They are " simply are not being performed in large

numbers, " said Dr. Bruce Cunningham of the University

of Minnesota in Minneapolis, the ASPS president.

Forever young

Cosmetic surgery remains medicine mainly for white

women, according to the report.

Of all patients, 77 percent were white and roughly 90

percent were women. Fifty-one percent of all cosmetic

surgery patients and 69 percent of patients who get

minimally invasive procedures were 51 and older.

Cunningham's group compiles the yearly report using an

online national database for plastic surgery

procedures called Tracking Operations and Outcomes for

Plastic Surgeons. It combines that with a survey of

17,000 board-certified physicians in specialties most

likely to perform plastic surgery.

Plastic surgeons also do reconstructive surgery to

remove damage from trauma or disease. The

most-performed reconstructive procedure last year was

tumor removal at more than 3.9 million, but this was

down 15 percent from 2004. Scar revisions (181,000),

hand surgery (172,000) and breast reduction (114,000)

are also common.

More than 29,000 animal-bite repair surgeries were

done in 2005, down 35 percent from 2004.