Plastic surgery becoming more popular in the UK

There has been a dramatic increase in the popularity of plastic surgery in the UK with the number of nose jobs, face lifts and breast implant operations soaring by more than 10 per cent last year, a professional body of surgeons said today.
The biggest boom was in the popularity of liposuction, a cosmetic surgery operation that removes fat from many different sites on the human body, up by 41 per cent, according to the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (Baaps).
Baaps said it was "the most impressive rise in demand" since the start of the recession in 2008.

There were 50,122 cosmetic procedures in 2013, a rise of 17 per cent on the previous year. Baaps said the increase had been "across the board".
Breast enhancements were the most popular operation in women, while nose jobs were the cosmetic surgery of choice in men, the BBC reported.
Rajiv Grover, a consultant plastic surgeon and president of Baaps, said, "Both the UK economy and the British public seem to be well on the way to regaining their shape with the most impressive rise in demand for cosmetic surgery we have seen since the onset of the recession in 2008."

Grover said there were "risks as well as benefits" to cosmetic surgery.
"The continued double-digit rise of cosmetic surgery underlines the fact that whether it is breast augmentation or anti-ageing procedures like face-lifting, the public are choosing tried-and-tested surgical methods rather than the magical-sounding quick fixes that fail to deliver promised results," he said.
The plastic surgery industry was worth 750 million pounds in the UK in 2005, 2.3 billion pounds in 2010 and is forecast to reach 3.6 billion pounds by 2015.