Face-lifts: Men get more plastic surgeries, but women still get the most

Vanity, thy name is: dude? Sort of, new statistics from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons show.

Men are getting more plastic surgery, the organization trumpeted in a news release.

But women still receive 91% of cosmetic procedures.

First, the guys: Plastic surgery is up. The total number of surgeries performed on men increased 2% from 2009 to 2010, to 1.1 million. The fastest-growing procedure? Face-lifts, which went up 14% to 10,903 performed.

Men also got 10% more filler treatments (78,472), 9% more Botox treatments (336,834), 7% more liposuctions (23,899) and 4% more eyelid surgeries (31,476). The number of nose jobs -- the most popular procedure for men -- decreased, falling 4% to 63,585 in 2010.

“The growth in cosmetic surgical procedures for men may be a product of our aging baby boomers who are now ready to have plastic surgery,” said ASPS president Dr. Phillip Haeck, in a news release.

That may be. But women, who got 11.5 million cosmetic procedures in 2010 -- that’s about 10 times more than men did -- also got 2% more surgeries in 2010 (1.4 million). And they got 6% more minimally invasive procedures such as fillers and Botox injections (10.2 million). Men got only 2% more of such treatments (918,000).

The guys might be catching on, but the ladies have kept the lead.

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More from the Los Angeles Times on the cosmetic procedures statistics.

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons publishes its 2010 statistics. (These include numbers about plastic surgeries among women, too.)