Men Accounted for 40% of the Breast Reduction Surgeries Performed in 2015
LatestAccording to the latest data from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), Americans really enjoy plastic surgery. In 2015, some 15.9 million surgeries were performed, equalling about one in every 16 Americans. That’s the most plastic surgery that Americans have had in a year, continuing the steady increase in the market since 2000. The Washington Post notes that cosmetic procedures—a category that includes minimally invasive procedures like Botox and fillers as post-treatment breast reconstruction—have increased 115 percent since the beginning of the century.
But if our fair century is the era of the ever-changing and constantly morphing body, then that body isn’t gender specific. The ASPS found that 40 percent of patients who underwent breast reduction surgery were men. Indeed, men accounted for 27, 456 of the roughly 68,000 reduction surgeries in 2015. That’s a rise of 35 percent since 2000.