What is the busiest season for cosmetic surgery?
The holiday season is the busiest time of the year for many plastic surgeons, the reason is that people who undergo surgery avoid being seen during recovery and reduction of school activities and social events compared with the rest of the year is ideal for them.
December, particularly the latter half, is the busiest time of the year for many plastic surgeons, cosmetic dermatologists and doctors who perform weight-loss operations like gastric bypass. Some doctors say they do twice as many of these elective procedures per day in this period as during the rest of the year.
The reason: After many cosmetic procedures patients want to go underground during the days-long recovery period, which might involve swelling, bruising and oozing. The holiday season makes it easier to avoid interacting with others at work or in school car pools. This year, with Christmas and New Year’s both falling on weekends, a patient can be under the knife or laser beams early in the week and still be presentable by the time the parties start.
“People like to hide out while they heal,” says Debra Jaliman, a dermatologist in New York City. This week, Dr. Jaliman says she is scheduled to perform 15 Fraxel procedures, a laser process meant to leave the skin looking younger. Normally she does five a week.
Traci Slatton, a 48-year-old writer in New York, scheduled an appointment with Dr. Jaliman for Tuesday to have a Fraxel treatment that can leave one’s skin swollen, red and scabby for four or five days. She wants to look great for a March event to celebrate the publication of “The Art of Life,” the book she wrote with her husband, the sculptor Sabin Howard, about the role of beauty in art.
The laser procedure “feels like heated rubber bands snapping against your skin,” says Ms. Slatton.
With school on break this week, Ms. Slatton says she doesn’t have to worry about seeing other parents while dropping off her… continue reading
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December 30, 2011 4:51 pm
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