Don't Quit Your Day Job To Build A Buttock Practice

Study Show That 'Fringe' Plastic Surgery Procedures Not Too Popular.

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) lists four operations getting lots of media attention but garnering few patients. Here are those procedures and how many times they were done in the U.S. in 2005:

  • Vaginal "rejuvenation" (tightening vaginal muscles or changing the vagina's appearance): 793
  • Buttock implants: 542
  • Calf augmentation: 337
  • Pectoral implants: 206

America's leading cosmetic plastic surgery in 2005 was liposuction, which was done more than 323,000 times. Rhinoplasty (nose reshaping) was in second place with more than 298,000 procedures. Breast augmentation, in third place, was done more than 291,000 times in 2005, according to the ASPS.

The Wacky World Of Oversized Breast Implants

Three New York women who underwent breast augmentation surgery say they never wanted to look like Pamela Anderson and are suing because of oversized implants.

The three are suing Dr. Brad Jacobs, saying he left them deformed by stuffing oversized implants into their breasts.

"I wanted to leave with a 34B -- but the day after my surgery, I was huge," Felice Rosenbaum of Manhattan told the New York Post. She said when Jacobs was finished she was a double-D, with the aching ribs and shoulders to prove it. "I was a small D -- now I'm a double-D, nearly a triple-D," she told the Post. "I didn't want them bigger, I wanted them repaired because they were leaking."

Report: Nearly 4 million Botox treatments performed in 2005

The number of cosmetic procedures climbed to more than 10.2 million last year, most of them office-based, minimally invasive cosmetic fixes such as Botox injections.

The number of traditional plastic surgeries declined by 5 percent over the last five years, while minimally invasive cosmetic procedures jumped by 53 percent over the past five years, according to a report from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.

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