- During 2020 alone, more than 10.1 million cosmetic surgery procedures were performed worldwide.
- Mammoplasty is the most common because it represents 16% of all interventions that are carried out.
- Mexico ranks fifth in the world among the countries with the most interventions of this type carried out by apocryphal doctors.
Aesthetic operations are becoming more and more frequent. Although many times the only thing that is desired is to modify some part of the body for vanity, in others there are aspects related to health. Regardless of the reason, the most important thing is always to go to a qualified and certified surgeon because he is the person who has the necessary knowledge.
The danger of the apocryphal surgeons
In fact, one of the The most frequent problems that exist is that there are many people who pretend to be surgeons and in reality they are not. Sometimes they are general doctors who do not have the specialty and in others they are not even health professionals.
This situation is too serious for different reasons. On one side, Theft of identity and profession is a crime that is punishable by imprisonment. While the most affected is the patient because their integrity is put at risk in each intervention.
Now, especially as of 2020, there was a considerable increase in aesthetic operations globally. The modality of home office or remote work adopted by millions of people was one of the main causes. Now it’s easier to stay at rest because you don’t have to go out. For this reason more people were encouraged to make body modifications.
According to the International Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS), During 2020, more than 10.1 million plastic surgery procedures were performed worldwide.
The most popular interventions among patients
But although there is a wide range of aesthetic operations, there are some that are more popular than others. The information retrieved by Statistical indicates that the most common on the planet is mammoplasty or breast augmentation because it represents 16% of all the procedures that are carried out.
For its part, the liposuction occupies the second position in the world ranking with 15.1%. While in third place is the blepharoplasty or eyelid surgery with 12.1%.
Most of the surgeries carried out in 2020 were recorded in the United States and Brazil, with about 1.5 million procedures in the former and just over 1.3 million in the latter.
On the other hand, ISAPS mentions that Mexico occupies the fifth place in the world among the countries with the most interventions of this type carried out by apocryphal doctors. It is only below Brazil, Japan, the United States and Italy.
In the meantime, we share a graph drawn up by the Saludiario team with the most common cosmetic operations worldwide.
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