Demographic Study and Description of the Surgical Demand in Aesthetic Surgery

• Published in: Annals of plastic surgery Vol. 91; no. 2; pp. 206 - 210
• Main Authors: Mendes, Vanessa Marron, Diluiso, Giuseppe, Kamdem, Catherine Jidjouc, Goulliart, Stephen, Schettino, Michela, Dziubek, Melvin, Miszewska, Claudia, Di Fiore, Christella, Carrillo, Socorro Ortiz, Delhaye, Marie
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 01-08-2023
• Subjects: Abdominoplasty; Adult; Body Mass Index; Demography; Female; Humans; Male; Retrospective Studies; Surgery, Plastic
• ISSN: 0148-7043; 1536-3708
• DOI: 10.1097/SAP.0000000000003611

The demand for aesthetic surgery presents a continuously growing trend over the years. The population wishing to undergo this type of surgery presents unique characteristics that are profoundly different in motivational, demographic, and clinical features from patients in other specialties.
The aim of our multicenter study is to objectively define the surgical demand and the demographic characteristics of our patients comparing them with general population. We try to better define who are our patients.
We conducted an observational, multicenter, retrospective study analyzing 3329 consultations involving a total of 2092 patients between January 2019 and June 2019. Based on the inclusion criteria, we selected 524 patients whose demographic characteristics, body mass index, addictions, comorbidities, and aesthetic surgery demand were analyzed.
The mean age of our population is 38.58 years (female-to-male ratio, 9:1). The mean body mass index is 27.50 (5.23). A total of 22.90% of the sample have smoking habits, 3.63% have alcohol addiction, 1.53% have drugs addiction, and 53.63% of the population have relevant comorbidities.The 56.68% of the patients have already undergone surgery. The conversion rate of our first consultations to surgery is 49.05%. The most requested operation is abdominoplasty (36.45%), followed by liposuction (22.90%), breast reduction (17.56%), mastopexy (14.79%), and rhinoplasty (7.63%).
This topic is downplayed and seldom studied in the literature; our effort is to make patient profiling crucial and evidence-based in aesthetic surgery.