Plastic Surgery Gone Wrong Headlines

Plastic surgery gone wrong or taken to extremes seems to make headlines everywhere.

Self-proclaimed and media-labeled beauty junkies appear to be cropping up everywhere these days. But is the public getting the wrong impression? What are the facts and what lies behind some of plastic surgery's bizarre and extreme stories?

The reality is that cosmetic enhancement is quite mainstream and safe when approached by an educated consumer in a reasonable fashion.

Mainstream consumers

The number of surgical and non-surgical cosmetic enhancement procedures undergone by women and men, as reported by the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, amounted to almost 12 million in 2004. The most popular, Botox injections, was performed on nearly 27 percent of those men and women. And surprisingly, more of those people were super moms than supermodels.

According to research conducted about Botox users by the Aesthetic Society Research and Education Foundation:

_ Homemakers comprise 12 percent of Botox users, and business owners hold an identical 12 percent; 10 percent are managers and an equal 10 percent are clerical and administrative support staff.

_ The percentage of Botox users who have an income of less than $100,000 per year is 44 percent, 12 percent of whom have an income of less than $50,000.

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