In Los Angeles, Breast Augmentation Predicts the Economy? - Kevin Brenner, M.D., F.A.C.S.
In Los Angeles, Breast Augmentation Predicts the Economy?
Every year, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons releases the most recent plastic surgery statistics. And in 2010, the statistics show that plastic surgery bounced back, big time. Now people are asking, could the trend in breast implant surgery forecast the larger economic trends in the stock market and US economy? According to ASPS, in 2010 13.1 million cosmetic plastic surgery procedures were performed in the United States, up 5 percent from the previous year. Some economic analysts are now looking to plastic surgery trends to help serve as an indicator of the health of the overall economy.