Buttock surgery sees highest growth of all surgical procedures in 2019
The number of surgical and non-surgical aesthetics procedures undertaken in the world in 2019 increased by 7.4%.
This is higher than the year-on-year increase from 2018 to 2019, which was 5.6%. In 2019, both surgical and non-surgical procedures increased, by 7.1% and 7.6% respectively, compared to 2018, when only non-surgical procedures increased.
The figures come from the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery's (ISAPS) Global Survey 2019.
Buttock surgery showed the highest growth for all surgical procedures. Buttock augmentation increased by 38.4% in 2019 and by a huge 65.9% since 2015, while buttock lifts increased by 25.5% in 2019 and by 77.6% since 2015.
Labiaplasty was also on the rise, increasing by 24.1% in 2019 and by 73.3% since 2015.
Breast augmentation remained the most common cosmetic surgical procedure, making up 15.8% of all procedures, despite a 3.6% decrease year on year. Interestingly, surgery to remove implants increased by 10.7% in 2019.
Following breast augmentation, liposuction, eyelid surgery, abdominoplasty, and rhinoplasty made up the top five surgical procedures. Among men, these were gynecomastia, eyelid surgery and liposuction.
The top five non-surgical procedures also remained the same as in 2018: botulinum toxin, hyaluronic acid, laser hair removal, non-surgical fat reduction, and photo rejuvenation.
Face and head procedures increased by 13.5%, compared to a 14.7% decrease the previous year, with eyelid surgery has increased in popularity among men.
Unsurprisingly, the use of nonsurgical injectables was up by 8.6%. While botulinum toxin remains the most used, the highest percentage increase was seen for calcium hydroxyapatite fillers, up 64.9% in 2019. The use of hyaluronic acid also showed continued growth, up 15.7% since 2018.
Poly-l-lactic acid treatments in the form of threads and filler, and microablative procedures also increased, by 24.1% and 34.2%, respectively.
Women aged 35-50 were the biggest demographic for surgical procedures overall (and for botulinum toxin injections, at 46.1% of the total), while most breast augmentations (53.9%) and rhinoplasties (64.5%) took place in 19-34-year-olds. Rhinoplasty continued to be the most common cosmetic procedure in patients 18 years or younger.
From an individual country point of view, the US performed the most procedures at 15.9%, despite an 8.7% decrease in surgical procedures, as well as 19.3% of all non-surgical procedures and a huge 77.8% of injectables. Brazil performed the most surgical procedures (13.1% of total) and non-surgical procedures there rose by 28%.
After the US and Brazil, the top 10 countries for both surgical and non-surgical procedures combined were Japan, Mexico, Italy, Germany, Turkey, France, India, and Russia.
