cosmetic surgery (face lifts) down 50% for 2009. Economy tagged as reason.

Another side effect of the 2008-09 economic down turn is seeming to be cosmetic surgery, specifically "face-lifts".

The study done to come to this conclusion is not scientific by any means but is believed to be a indication worthy of more study.

How did they come to their conclusion. They asked the top 100 Beverly Hills plastic surgeons. The study consisted of "secret shoppers" calling the plastic surgeons to inquire when was the quickest they could come in for a consultation. In the past doctors bragged that they jad potential clients on a 6 month waiting list. Now in 2009 the average wait that the secret shoppers received were 45 days.

“A lot of the busy guys used to brag that they had patients waiting six months or a year,” said Dr. Michael A. C. Kane, a plastic surgeon in Manhattan. “Granted, I thought it was exaggerated for their own p.r., but now you almost never hear that. Now you hear a month or two.”

I guess the economic crunch is having effect every where, even with the well to do.

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