Plastic Surgery in Men

While men still make up a minority of patients having plastic surgery and office-based cosmetic procedures, those numbers have been steadily increasing since 2000. Men are becoming more common in the plastic surgeon's office, although most still desire a good degree of discretion and privacy. The top male cosmetic procedures in my experience include liposuction, rhinoplasty, gynecomastia reduction, blepharoplasty and Botox®.

It is no surprise that liposuction remains the top procedure for men given the number of potential body areas and that it can be done in both young and old alike. Unlike women, however, most male liposuction is done primarily in the abdomen, flank, and neck areas. Even in relatively lean individuals, fat collections at the side of the waist and flanks are common as one ages. Today's liposuction techniques have been refined to produce better results with less rippling and etching procedures for those leaner males who want an easy way to the 'six-pack' abdominal look.

Male rhinoplasty has been a mainstay plastic surgery procedure for men for many years and remains a popular operation for the teenage and young adult male. It is far less commonly performed in the older male over 40 who have come to accept their nose, no matter how disproportionate it is to other facial features, and would feel very 'abnormal' if it were changed at this point in their life. Rhinoplasty may frequently be performed with chin augmentation if it will improve a man's facial profile over a rhinoplasty alone by bringing the chin more forward.

Gynecomastia reduction is, in my opinion, the one male plastic surgery procedure that is on the rise. Whether it be a small protrusion of the nipple in a teenager, to a more traditional larger gynecomastia in adolescents, to the sagging and deflated appearance in the middle-aged and older male, improvement in the male chest is sought out like never before.now. Liposuction, nipple lifting and reduction, and pectoral implants are potential methods for male chest enhancement. Refined liposuction techniques, known as etching, provides better definition to the pectoral muscle outlines which can be combined with any of the other chest contouring procedures.

Eyelid surgery (blepharoplasty) in the male remains a common procedure. Most men wait until their eyelid problems are more severe than many women as some aging around the eyes is more accepted in men. There still remains the senior male who only has his upper eyelids done due to visual field obstruction.

Men increasingly are joining the Botox and Lipodissolve injection therapy ranks as well as having other traditional (e.g., facelift) and more exotic forms (e.g., pectoral or calf implants) of plastic surgery.

Author: Dr Barry Eppley

Dr Barry Eppley runs a private plastic surgery practice through his hospital-based medspa locations at Clarian Health in Indianapolis. To learn more about the latest trends in plastic surgery, spa therapies, or skin care, go to his daily blog, http://www.exploreplasticsurgery.com .

Keywords : plastic surgery, male plastic surgery, liposuction, rhinoplasty, gynecomastia, blepharoplasty, botox, lipodissolve

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