Teenage girls used to dream of a prom dress or a new sports car for their Sweet 16th . Now just about every girl that age wants bigger breasts or liposuction instead.

What do plastic and cosmetic surgeons learn after they themselves have been plastic surgery patients? What do they complain about?

Because professional women tend to have higher incomes and usually go back to work after childbirth, they often have a “mommy makeover” to regain their former shapes.

Busy consumers are asking for, and receiving, cosmetic procedures that involve no scapel. Often, the procedure is done on the lunch hour.

Some women who have relatives stricken by breast cancer are surgically removing nature’s own and having new breasts reconstructed by plastic surgeons