Patient Comments: Breast Augmentation
April 6th, 2011
Natalya writes:
Breast Augmentation a week ago. 20 years of embarrassment and low self-esteem are OVER! And it only took an hour to fix! How ironic is that! How does it feel? Amazing! Painful? Not at all. I’d say it’s more painful to start nursing a baby. Affordable – absolutely! Drove on the second day after the surgery, did clothes shopping on the third and fourth, back to work on the sixth! I am a new woman. The shape and size are already perfect, and they said it’ll get even better within a few months. 🙂
Dr.Bashioum, you are wonderful. Thank you for all your compassion to women and their problems (men too, I am sure). God does miracles with your hands. Your staff are all angels. Very beautiful and helpful! Expect my friends soon. I had to be the first one for them to see the results. I’ll highly recommend your clinic to everybody who asked me who did such a wonderful job and made my body absolutely perfect!
Ten million thanks!
Cosmetic Surgery Rebounds Along with Economy
March 2nd, 2011
In a rather tacky headline: “Economy, Boob Jobs Grow” that was  surely meant to grab attention, ABC  announces that breast enlargement surgery procedures are increasing, as the economy shows signs of recovery.  I couldn’t agree more, but they could have chosen a  slightly more elegant way to state this statistic.  In fact, after a few years of sluggish growth, there does seem to be an upward trend in all categories of cosmetic surgery, those procedures perhaps offering a less flashy title for their headline.
Leading the pack by the numbers are non-evasive fillers and injectables like Botox ® by a sizable margin.  According to the  The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS), their combined total is well over 3,870,000 procedures.
The breakdown by age is as follows:  People age 35-50 had the most procedures – almost 4.5 million and 44 percent of the total.  People age 19-34 had 20 percent of procedures; age 51-64 had 27 percent; age 65-and-over had 7 percent; and teens 18-and-younger had 2 percent.
And finally, as it is with my own practice, women represent the majority.  About 90% of cosmetic surgery patients  are women, having over 9 million cosmetic procedures last year.