Brazil
Population: 203,429,773 as of July 2011
Official Language: Portuguese
Climate: Mostly tropical; cooler in the south
Did you know? One Brazilian man gets plastic surgery every 2 minutes.
Number of plastic surgery procedures performed in 2014: 2,058,505
โขย Percentage of global total: 10.2%
โขย Number of plastic surgeons in this country:
5,473, 13.6% of total
โขย Total surgical procedures: 1,343,293
โขย Total face & head procedures: 501,053
โข Total breast procedures: 422,789
โขย Total body and extremity procedures: 12,752
โขย Total nonsurgical procedures: 715,212
Plastic Surgery in Brazil at Your Fingertips:
โOur ideas and ideals about beauty along with many of the early techniques designed to achieve them come from our Brazilian colleagues,โ says Renato Saltz, MD, a Brazilian-born plastic surgeon who practices in Salt Lake City.
โThe new generation of Brazilian plastic surgeons continue to innovate and help our specialty to improve body contouring surgery,โ says Saltz, also the chair of the American-Brazilian Aesthetic Meeting.
โBody shape and figure plays a big role in a very tropical country where the majority of the population lives by the Atlantic Ocean,โ Saltz says. โAbdomens are extremely flat and defined, women are very fit and muscled, and breasts and buttocks continue to get larger and firmer,โ he says.
โThe โBrazilian buttโ has dominated the news in Brazil and abroad, and consists of a larger, firmer, and very attractive buttock compared to other cultures,โ Saltz says. โFat injection, butt lifts, and buttock implants are the three popular surgical choices for enhanced buttocks in Brazil and the US.โ
Data source: International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
Breaking it Down:
Brazilโs Surgical Procedures By the Numbers:
Liposuction: 217,606
Breast Augmentation: 185,042
Eyelid Surgery: 161,235
Abdominoplasty: 121,884
Fat Grafting: 112,306
Brazilโs Nonsurgical Procedures By the Numbers:
Botulinum Toxin: 355,581
Hyaluronic Acid: 182,141
Hair Removal: 76,239
Laser Skin Resurfacing: 52,650
Chemical Peel: 16,145