Do you ever want to know what plastic surgery procedures are popular around the world? If you do, then the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery is your source. The association keeps statistics on aesthetic procedures performed all over the world. Their most recent statistics are from 2016. If you’re reading Dr. Hetzler’s blog, you’re […]
You may not have heard of tissue expansion, but Dr. Hetzler uses this procedure to “grow” extra skin for later use in reconstructing most any part of the body. The procedure is common in cases of breast reconstruction but can be used elsewhere, as well. What is tissue expansion? In this procedure, Dr. Hetzler inserts […]
There are ways to make statistics more relatable. For instance, you could equate the statistics with a population to give a random number some meaning. If you did that with the number of aesthetic procedures from 2015, you could use the country of Romania as a comparison. Picture that every person in the country had […]
Let’s say you were on a game show and you had to answer this question: Which U.S. metropolitan areas were the Top 10 for the most plastic surgeons per 100,000 residents? What would you say? Dallas? San Diego? Beverly Hills? Phoenix? Surely Los Angeles has to be #1, right? Wrong. In statistics compiled by RealSelf, […]
These days it could seem odd that a woman would want to have smaller breasts. After all, in the U.S. breast augmentation was the most popular cosmetic surgery in 2014. But for women with overly large breasts, their breasts can be nothing if not a burden, causing both physical and mental problems. In these cases, […]
You’ve done the heavy lifting, so to speak. You’ve lost the weight, whether by exercise and diet moderation or by bariatric surgery. You’ve achieved your goals but now all you see when you look in the mirror is skin — loose, sagging skin and muscle on the face and jowls, the arms, breasts, and all […]
Mythology was a part of everyday life for the Greeks. Today people pass around urban legends, which are akin to modern legends of sorts. The aesthetic industry has its share of myths and urban legends. Even the term “plastic” in plastic surgery is misunderstood. People think plastic is meant to be fake, akin to the […]
The International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS) recently released its statistics on procedures from 2014. Over 20 million procedures were performed in 2014; that’s as if every person in Australia had a tummy tuck or a facial filler injected or something. The United States was almost double the second place country, Brazil, in the […]
