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

โ€ขย Percentage of global total: 10.2%

โ€ขย Number of plastic surgeons in this country:
5,473, 13.6% of total

โ€ขย Total surgical procedures: 1,343,293

โ€ขย Total face & head procedures: 501,053

โ€ข Total breast procedures: 422,789

โ€ขย Total body and extremity procedures: 12,752

โ€ขย Total nonsurgical procedures: 715,212

Plastic Surgery in Brazil at Your Fingertips:

โ€œOur 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.

โ€œThe 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.

โ€œBody 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. โ€Abdomens are extremely flat and defined, women are very fit and muscled, and breasts and buttocks continue to get larger and firmer,โ€ he says.

โ€œThe โ€˜Brazilian 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. โ€œFat 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:

Brazilโ€™s Surgical Procedures By the Numbers:

Liposuction: 217,606

Breast Augmentation: 185,042

Eyelid Surgery: 161,235

Abdominoplasty: 121,884

Fat Grafting: 112,306

Brazilโ€™s 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