McCafferty, a plastic surgeon in private practice in Pittsburgh and the president of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery.
Breast augmentation was the most frequent cosmetic surgical procedure in 2012, according to the aesthetic plastic surgery society's new statistics.
Almost 1.3m licensed procedures were carried out in 2010, according to the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (as well as many more unlicensed ones).
According to the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, there were over 750, 000 cosmetic procedures performed on men in the U.S. last year alone, representing around 8% of all procedures.
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Among the nearly 6.9 million cosmetic treatments performed in the United States in 2002, nonsurgical procedures outnumbered surgical procedures by more than 3-to-1, according to the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery.
Loss of sensation in the nipple in particular occurs anywhere from 10% to 70% of the time, says Dr. Nahai, president of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) depending on the type of procedure.
Hamish Laing, honorary secretary of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS) and consultant plastic surgeon at the Welsh Centre for Burns and Plastic Surgery, said it was a novel idea to make artificial skin that would not only cover the wound but actively fight infection.
The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons has called for a ban on advertising for cosmetic surgery and said that it preyed on women in a vulnerable state, such as following a divorce.
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According to Dr. Richard Chaffoo, a San Diego-based plastic surgeon with experience in the area, reconstructive breast surgery is more complicated than purely aesthetic surgery of the breast and is associated with more surgical procedures and subsequent complications.
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