A Nip Here… A Tuck There… Baby Boomers Looking For the Fountain of Youth

It started out as a little laugh line on the corner of your eye, then it was 2 or 3 extra lines just above your brow, now your daughter tells you how distinguished the crows feet make you look. Last night as you looked in the mirror and wondered why it is you have two chins instead of the one you were born with.
He is not the 58-year-old Brian wants to look like Brad Pitt, nor is 60-year-old Joan planning on entering Americas Top Model anytime soon. Many just want to look as young people feel. Along with diet, exercise and regular medical examinations, cosmetic surgery has become part of the shape of the health of many ?baby boomers.
Baby Boomers looking for the Fountain of Youth
According to statistics released last March by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), minimally invasive cosmetic procedures continue to increase among all age groups, and the ?baby boomers adding more and more skin and body lift procedures .
As the 40-year-olds in 2005 increased 27% 54 thigh lifts, lower body lifts increased 24 percent, upper arm lifts increased 23 percent, line (surface) lifts increased 22 percent to increase breast lifts 11 percent, 7 percent increase and stomach work harder. The same procedure last year, had a similar increase in reports over 55-year-old age group. In fact, the combined age group from 2006 through 2005, an increase in these cosmetic surgery 12%.
While boomers have aged in years, many of them feel that they haven?t aged in spirit. They?re not retiring in any traditional sense of the word, if they?re retiring at all. Instead, they?re taking up kayaking, buying motorcycles, practicing martial arts and even dating. Even as they enter their sixties, they want bodies and faces that reflect their inner youth. Because baby boomers control 40 percent of the nation?s disposable income, they comprise the wealthiest group of older people in history. The anti-aging and cosmetic industries have taken notice, and they?re beginning to tap into the aging but affluent boomer market.
L?Oreal recently signed 68-year-old Jane Fonda and boomer Diane Keaton to be the faces for its new anti-aging product line. Cosmetic surgery and cosmetic dentistry practices are targeting boomers with ads that feature more mature models.
Wrinkles may file a complaint among the most baby boomers are in the face. Botox treatments for loose skin temporarily, by injecting the generation of more than 600,000 last year, according to an ASP. This procedure is quick and easy, many clients, the effect is expected to challenge outstanding during lunch break and can be renewed six months.
Plastic surgeons say there is no typical cosmetic surgery client:
The work of the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education priests, police, teachers and salesmen. My client a large number of lawyers and high-profile work of people say that Wei Lianbei, in Caramel, industrial, and cosmetic surgery of the former President, American Academy of Plastic Surgeons. He said that the number of women over 30 years of age and 40-year-old's mother asked make-up, a combination of nasal surgery and breast lift. Some go further, to lift the buttocks and breast implants.
The number of men undergoing cosmetic surgery has surged, according to ASPS. In 2005 there were 1.2 million cosmetic surgery operations performed on men, 44% from 2000. Popular procedures include hair transplants, eyelid surgery, Botox and microdermabrasion to smooth the skin.
Many boomers feel as young on the inside as they did in the days of the Beatles, free love, Hula Hoop parties and Swing. Now modern medicine can make the inside match the outside with just a few pinpricks during your lunch hour.
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Baby Boomers looking for the Fountain of Youth
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