The 10 Most Common Cosmetic Surgeries

The 10 Most Common Cosmetic Surgeries

    Cosmetic Surgery is a medical treatment that is concerned with the restoration of form and function of the skin. It is the main kind of Plastic surgery.

    It is used for treatment of different skin problems like burns. Doctors strive to improve person’s body appearance and self image through cosmetic procedure.
Webster’s Dictionary defines plastic surgery as: surgery concerned with the repair, restoration, or improvement of lost, injured, defective, or misshapen body parts. Some people are put off by the use of the word “plastic”, as it is sometimes considered to be synonymous with “fake” or “superficial”, while others object because they believe that it implies the implantation or grafting of actual plastic parts into or onto human beings.

How to look like a beautiful queen or princess? If you have any skin problem that make your beautiful face dirty. So don’t worry you can become again beautiful by Cosmetic Surgery. Here you can see all the Procedures and the final outcome.

#1. Breast Lift Surgery


Mostly women use this surgery to reduce sagging and to achieve shapelier breasts. Medical fee charges are $4,207 and total patients that have used this are 89,931.A breast lift (also known as "mastopexy") is the process of using plastic surgery to improve a woman's figure by lifting and reshaping the breasts, giving a more shapely and youthful appearance. A common cosmetic problem addressed by a breast lift is the sagging of the breasts. The medical term for this sagging is breast ptosis. Breast sagging is a normal occurrence. The main unavoidable causes of this sagging are gravity and time (aging). Breast ptosis may be further magnified by pregnancy, breast feeding, decrease in skin elasticity, and weight loss.

#2. Breast Augmentation Surgery

This famous surgery started in 2006. The total numbers of patients that have used this surgery are 296,203. Charges of this work are $3,351.This is done to enlarge an underdeveloped breast or breast that become small and loose after child birth.


A silicone or saline implant is placed behind the muscle of breast tissue. Implant is placed through incision in axilla, below the breast or areola (dark skin around the nipple), usually leaving behind no evident tell-tale signs.

#3. Eyelid Surgery

This surgery is basically done on eyes. The 208,764 patients have got this treatment. Surgeon fee of this surgery is $2,828. By this treatment you can correct the eye expressions and remove extra fat and skin.Blepharoplasty is surgical modification of the eyelid. Excess tissue such as skin and fat are removed or repositioned, and surrounding muscles and tendons may be reinforced. It can be both a functional and cosmetic surgery.Blepharoplasty is often done as an elective surgery for cosmetic reasons. Lower eyelid blepharoplasty is almost always done for cosmetic reasons, to improve puffy lower eyelid "bags" and reduce the wrinkling of skin. Asian blepharoplasty or double eyelid surgery is a special type of blepharoplasty that creates a crease in the upper eyelid.This "supratarsal fold" is common in many races but absent in about half of Asians. Surgery can artificially create this crease and make a 'single-lidded' patient appear 'double-lidded'. It is the most popular form of cosmetic surgery among those of east and southeast Asian background.

#4. Nose Surgery

This surgery usually use for reshaping of the nose to make it bigger or smaller or to change the angles between upper lip and nose. More than 252.261 patients have treated by this surgery. The doctor has charged $4,306 for this work.Rhinoplasty, also nose job, is a plastic surgery procedure for correcting and reconstructing the form, restoring the functions, and aesthetically enhancing the nose, by resolving nasal trauma (blunt, penetrating, blast), congenital defect, respiratory impediment, and a failed primary rhinoplasty. In the surgeries — closed rhinoplasty and open rhinoplasty — an otolaryngologist (ear, nose, and throat specialist), a maxillofacial surgeon (jaw, face, and neck specialist), or a plastic surgeon, creates a functional, aesthetic, and facially proportionate nose by separating the nasal skin and the soft tissues from the osseo-cartilaginous nasal framework, correcting them as required for form and function, suturing the incisions, and applying a stent to immobilize the corrected (new) nose to ensure the proper healing of the surgical cuts.Rhinoplasty (reconstructive nose surgery) was first developed in ancient India, by the ayurvedic physician Sushruta (ca. 800 BC), who described reconstruction of the nose in the Sushruta samhita (ca. 500 BC), his medico–surgical compendium.

#5. Tummy Tuck Surgery

This surgery is common these days. This medical surgery use for tighten overly stretched abdominal muscles. The numbers of persons that have used this surgery are 116,000 and the medical fee is $2,828.Abdominoplasty or "tummy tuck" is a cosmetic surgery procedure used to make the abdomen more firm. The surgery involves the removal of excess skin and fat from the middle and lower abdomen in order to tighten the muscle and fascia of the abdominal wall. This type of surgery is usually sought by patients with loose tissues after pregnancy or individuals with sagging after major weight loss.

#6. Forehead Lift Surgery

This treatment designed to eliminating lines and creases in the skin on the upper face. Medical surgeon fee is $3,161 and total numbers of surgeries are 42,433.A forehead lift, also known as a browlift or browplasty, is a cosmetic surgery procedure used to elevate a drooping eyebrow that may obstruct vision and/or to remove the deep “worry” lines that run across the forehead and may portray to others anger, sternness, hostility, fatigue or other unintended emotions

#7. Liposuction Surgery

This is technically known as suction lipoplasty. This is used to remove fat deposits using a vacuum device. This surgery used on buttocks, hips, thighs and arms. The charges of surgeon are $2.828.Liposuction, also known as lipoplasty ("fat modeling"), liposculpture suction lipectomy or simply lipo ("suction-assisted fat removal") is a cosmetic surgery operation that removes fat from many different sites on the human body. Areas affected can range from the abdomen, thighs and buttocks, to the neck, backs of the arms and elsewhere.


Several factors limit the amount of fat that can be safely removed in one session. Ultimately, the operating physician and the patient make the decision. There are negative aspects to removing too much fat. Unusual "lumpiness" and/or "dents" in the skin can be seen in those patients "over-suctioned". The more fat removed, the higher the surgical risk.

#8. Skin Planning Surgery

This treatment is use for scarring, tattoos, chicken pox, scars and skin growths. It makes smoother skin by removing the epidermis. Surgeon has charged $4,207 for this treatment.Excisional skin surgery is a surgical procedure used to remove moles, cysts, skin cancer, and other skin growths using local anesthesia. To treat skin cancer, the doctor uses a scalpel to remove the entire tumor and some of the healthy tissue around it.

#9. Face Lift Surgery

This surgery is used for face. It corrects the damage by firming and tightening the skin of the face. The number of patients that have used this are 116.000 and the fee of surgeon is $6,231.A facelift, technically known as a rhytidectomy (literally, surgical removal of wrinkles), is a type of cosmetic surgery procedure used to give a more youthful appearance. It usually involves the removal of excess facial skin, with or without the tightening of underlying tissues, and the redraping of the skin on the patient's face and neck.


According to the most recent 2008 statistics from the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, facelifts were the sixth most popular aesthetic surgery performed after liposuction, breast augmentation, blepharoplasty (eyelid surgery), abdominoplasty (tummy tuck), breast reduction, and rhinoplasty.The first facelift was performed in Berlin in 1901 by surgeon Eugen Hollander.


#10.  Blepharoplasty or eyelid surgery is a surgical modification of the eyelids by removing fat and skin.


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