Submitted by Michael (not verified) on April 4, 2008 - 11:49.
I work with a plastic surgeon in Houston - breast augmentation (enlargement/implants and reduction) is something that's popular not only in the O.C., obviously. I'm not a surgeon, but being in the beauty business, I read a lot about plastic surgery. Recently, I was reading a release from the American Association of Plastic Surgeons re: their 2007 national plastic surgery statistics. As is typically the case, breast aug was the number one surgical cosmetic procedure in the U.S. last year (2007) with 347,500 procedures performed. Now, there were also over 100,000 breast reduction procedures performed during that same time. What I think is great about Tamra's story (and is great about plastic surgery), is that she wanted to have a certain look in her 20s, and ps was able to help. Then, when she decided bigger wasn't better, again, ps was able to help, giving her breasts that not only helped her to feel better about how she looked, but also how she felt, physically. From my interviews with women (and men), breast reduction is definitely one of those procedures that patients often wonder why they waited so long - why they lived so many years with the physical and emotional pain of overly large breasts.
I work with a plastic surgeon in Houston - breast augmentation (enlargement/implants and reduction) is something that's popular not only in the O.C., obviously. I'm not a surgeon, but being in the beauty business, I read a lot about plastic surgery. Recently, I was reading a release from the American Association of Plastic Surgeons re: their 2007 national plastic surgery statistics. As is typically the case, breast aug was the number one surgical cosmetic procedure in the U.S. last year (2007) with 347,500 procedures performed. Now, there were also over 100,000 breast reduction procedures performed during that same time. What I think is great about Tamra's story (and is great about plastic surgery), is that she wanted to have a certain look in her 20s, and ps was able to help. Then, when she decided bigger wasn't better, again, ps was able to help, giving her breasts that not only helped her to feel better about how she looked, but also how she felt, physically. From my interviews with women (and men), breast reduction is definitely one of those procedures that patients often wonder why they waited so long - why they lived so many years with the physical and emotional pain of overly large breasts.