The Wall Street Journal online reports that non-surgical facial cosmetic procedures are increasingly attractive to older workers to help keep them looking young to stay competitive in the current economy.
“If you are a woman who has to come back to work full-time or a man who isn’t going to be able to retire any time soon, you’ve got to look like you can compete,” says Wendy Lewis, a New York–based plastic surgery and skin care consultant. “And if you are working in a field like media where everyone is really young, you don’t just want to look good for your age, you want to look good, period.”
From 2008 to 2009 the number of Botox procedures jumped from 672,840 to 734,751 for those in the 51-64 age group, according to statistics from the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS). The stats showed that in the same age range, the number of facelifts dropped from over 75,000 in 2008 to just under 55,000 in 2009.
Overall stats from ASAPS showed that the number of facelifts in the U.S. dropped 29 percent and eyelid surgeries dropped 23 percent from 2008 to 2009, while Botox and Dysport injections rose 3.8 percent in the same time frame.
Less invasive procedures may be especially attractive to workers because they have less recovery time compared to surgery, and they are generally less expensive than surgical procedures. However, Lewis does point out that minimally-invasive treatments can be overdone. “There is a point at which you are going to have a better result and spend less money if you just have a facelift,” she says. In addition, there are some problems that can only be fixed by surgery, such as sagging jowls.
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