Spain, at the forefront in Plastic Surgery with almost half a million interventions

With almost half a million interventions performed in 2016, Spain ranks as the 12th country with the most Plastic Surgery and Aesthetic Medicine interventions performed. Breast augmentation is the most demanded surgery both worldwide and in Spain.

Nowadays, Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery has made an important place in Medicine. And the fact is that in Spain alone in 2016 almost half a million aesthetic interventions were carried out, with a total number of 473,074, according to the annual report of the International Society of AesthetIcs Plastic Surgery (ISAPS). These figures place Spain as the twelfth country with the most aesthetic interventions, far behind the United States, which has 4.2 million annual aesthetic interventions, 17.9% of the total. The American giant is followed by Brazil, with 2.5 million interventions (10.7% of the total), Japan with 1.13 million and 4.8% of the total. Italy and Mexico close the top 5 with slightly less than one million procedures in each country.

In fact, according to the ISAPS report, between 2015 and 2016, the number of surgical procedures grew by 9% worldwide. The surgery that has grown the most in the last year has been breast cosmetic surgery, increasing the total number by up to 11%, although special mention should also be made of non-surgical procedures, which have grown a lot in recent times, especially the application of botulinum toxin and hyaluronic acid.

The most commonly performed surgical procedure at present is breast augmentation. This technique accounts for 15.8% of the world’s total number of aesthetic procedures. Close behind mammoplasty is liposuction, with 14%. Blepharoplasty, also known as eyelid surgery, accounts for almost 13% (12.9%), while rhinoplasty and abdominoplasty account for 7.6% and 7.4% respectively.

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Plastic surgery and aesthetic medicine in Spain

In Spain -according to SECPRE data- there are around a thousand qualified plastic surgeons. This figure, despite being remarkable, is a far cry from the almost 7,000 in the United States (6,600) and the 5,500 in Brazil. Most of the patients are female, with more than 80% in both surgical and non-surgical procedures.

In Spain, the figures put the number of aesthetic procedures performed at 473,074. These can be divided into 225,851 surgical and 247,223 non-surgical procedures.

Among the surgical procedures, breast augmentation is the most demanded procedure with 46,493 interventions performed. In second place is blepharoplasty, with 31,062 interventions, followed by liposuction, which closes the podium with 23,547 interventions performed. Rhinoplasty with 17,675 interventions and abdominoplasty with 13,647 complete the top five aesthetic interventions performed in Spain.

In the case of non-surgical procedures necessarily, and which are closer to the field of Aesthetic Medicine are the applications of botulinum toxin, with 81,833 procedures performed. The application of hyaluronic acid is not far behind, as it exceeds 65,000 interventions (65,9225 in total). There were 28,862 chemical peels performed, for 19,038 depilations and 12,074 photo rejuvenations done.