Some Graphs of Trends in Cosmetic Surgery

Growth in specific surgeries over the past 10 years
Most common surgeries by sex
General trend in cosmetic procedures over time
Most common procedures overall

All of these come from http://www.surgery.org/.

Posted by Gwen Tuesday, February 19, 2008 at 1:59 PM Labels: , , , ,  

3 comments:

  Lisa

February 19, 2008 at 3:31 PM

These are another interesting case of bad presentation of data... the graphs with which we're supposed to compare are not proportional. Look, for example, at the last graph. The length of the line representing the number of breast reductions (~146,000) is almost the same length as the line representing the number of laser skin resurfacing procedures (~577,000).

  Anonymous

February 19, 2008 at 7:00 PM

i never knew so many people got eyelid surgeries!
i guess there's probably more of a stigma for that because it's used to combat aging, not to be sexier or whatnot.

  Gwen

February 20, 2008 at 10:58 AM

A large # of the eyelid surgeries are Asian women getting "corrective" surgery so they have an eyelid fold.

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