Butt procedures, male breast reduction growing slices of plastic surgery

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For doctors specializing in the nipping and tucking of faces, the latest stats on plastic surgery might be a bit of a bummer.

While sagging cheeks are still a leading motivation for cosmetic surgery, new data (PDF) compiled by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) suggests a subtle tweak in the trends. In 2015, redesigning the derriere—not the face—was the fastest growing area of plastic surgery in the United States, the society found.

Specifically, butt implants and lifts showed the largest uptick in procedures over those done in 2014—both increasing by 36 percent. Backside bulking with fat grafts also rose by 28 percent. And surgeons were clearly working their tails off, performing more than 22,000 tushie operations—about one every 30 minutes over the year.