[Aesthetic snapshot: study about cosmetic surgical procedures and complications]

A questionnaire was addressed to 600 members of the French Society of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery. Out of 19,000 interventions, thanks to the analysis of 112 answers, we were able to get a good picture of the activity in aesthetic surgery, showing the number and type of complications experienced during each intervention. Cosmetic surgical procedure represents 35% of global surgical activity of the French plastic surgeon. The most frequent interventions are liposuction (19%), breast augmentation (16%), eye-lid surgery (14%), abdominoplasty (12%), mammaplasty (10%), facelift (10%) and rhinoplasty (8%). The techniques for which we register more than 10% of problems are: abdominoplasty and mammaplasty. The techniques for which we register between 5% and 10% of problems are: rhinoplasty, facelift and breast augmentation. The techniques for which we register less than 5% of problems are: liposuction and eye-lid surgery. On average, the most frequent cosmetic surgical procedures give rise to 7% of complications.