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The Industry

Americans spent over $12 billion on cosmetic procedures last year.

The medical aesthetics industry is a growth industry. Treatments are performed in Medical Spas or in Doctors offices. Over the past ten years procedures have generated a tremendous amount of revenue, creating jobs and opportunities. Here are some impressive facts about the growth of the industry:

There were nearly 11.5 million surgical and nonsurgical cosmetic procedures performed in the United States in 2006, as reported by the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS).
Nonsurgical cosmetic procedures made up 83% of all the procedures.
Since 1997, nonsurgical procedures increased by 747 percent!
Laser hair removal and laser skin resurfacing were two of the top five non-surgical cosmetic procedures: laser hair removal (1,475,296 procedures) laser skin resurfacing (576,509 procedures). (The others three were Botox injection (3,181,592 procedures); hyaluronic acid (dermal fillers) (1,593,554 procedures); microdermabrasion (993,071procedures).
Women had over 10.5 million cosmetic procedures, 92 percent of the total. Since 1997, nonsurgical procedures have increased 749% among women.

Statistics courtesy of American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery.