Once the stuff of whispers and sideways glances, plastic surgery has come out of the shadows.
Shes even found herself operating on Saturdays.
Paradoxically, the look that everyone is going for is, well, shrinking.
Getty Images
People are really moving away from that, whether it’soverfilledcheeks, overfilled lips, things like that.
This aesthetic shift has changed the plastic surgery procedures patients are asking for and how doctors are performing them.
This all makes for a very interesting year ahead.
Read on for a preview of the top plastic surgery trends of 2024.
Targeting the armpits really changes what you see in the mirror, he says.
It makes you look more slender.
Now there’s much more recognition of, Hey, nothing I can do about this in the gym.
It’s typically the woman who has had children.
This is a patient who 100% would have said I want to do an implant five years ago.
Breast lifts are becoming more nuanced too.
One said, I’m very athletic.
I like to run, and my breasts are too large and they’re asymmetric.
The other said, I don’t feel like my body represents who I am.
It can be amazing.
During breast lifts, he might use a littlefatharvested from elsewhere on the body to create cleavage.
Liposuction can also be helpful in breast augmentation.
And I think that’s a positive.
I think that’s going to be a huge game-changer for plastic surgery in 2024.
This is also because more people are getting plastic surgery after taking Ozempic and alotof people are taking Ozempic.
It certainly has affected my world.
Of course, you see it [as laxity] in your face.
Already, the number of patients requesting facelifts has increased by 8% since 2019.
Part of it was a misunderstanding about what’s happening in the face.
There’s less volume holding things up so skin looks lax and wrinkles get worse, he explains.
Fat graftingwas virtually never done 20 years ago, he says.
Putting in achin implantwill elongate their jawline and make their face more heart-shaped.
It’s translating into a huge interest in people reexamining themselves.
They’re generally overpromised.
Then there are patients who have used Ozempic to shed just a few pounds.
The scars are really, really small and tend to be hard to notice.
It is probably the most important thing that you’re able to do to get a goodscar.
In a clinical trial of 25 participants, Dr. Mofid found, Sylke caused no allergic reactions or infections.
(Dr. Mofid found similar results in a larger clinical trial on Sylke that is currently being peer-reviewed.)
It did show better scars quite clearly.
It did show less irritation of the skin.
So if you cut yourself, you’re not making a trip to the hospital for stitches.
To read more about plastic surgery:
