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USA TODAY: Pairing Up for Plastic Surgery | NYC

By Vicky Markovitz
Trends in Plastic Surgery

Lauren-Beth Kassinger says that if she bought a pair of shoes that looked good on her, her mom would “go out and get the same thing.” So it wasn’t such a stretch, after Kassinger decided to get plastic surgery, that her mom, Elvia Rabinor, decided to do it, too.

According to 2005 statistics released by the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, a specialty group for certified plastic surgeons who focus on the face, head and neck, 34% of those surveyed report that more people are getting plastic surgery with a companion. The pairings range from friends, sisters, husbands and wives, and mothers and daughters, to some more unusual cases.

“I had a divorced couple come in recently,” says Jay Calvert, a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills, Calif. “I guess they wanted to get freshened up for the next experience.”

The tandem surgery experience was just one trend among many that emerged in 2005 as Americans continued their love affair with plastic surgery.

Numbers gathered by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) show that in 2005 surgeons performed:

  • More than 10.2 million cosmetic procedures, up 11% from 2004. Of those, the bulk (8.5 million) were minimally invasive procedures such as Botox injections and chemical peels. The rest were procedures such as liposuction and breast augmentation.
  • More than 5.4 million reconstructive surgeries, such as laceration repairs and scar treatment, down 3% from 2004.
  • A small number of so-called “fringe” surgery procedures. There were 793 vaginal rejuvenations, which repair damage caused by aging, childbirth or injury, or shape the vagina to match what a patient wants aesthetically; 542 buttock implants; 337 calf augmentations; 206 pectoral implants.

ASPS members are certified plastic surgeons. For their statistics, the group also surveyed doctors likely to perform plastic surgery.

Kassinger and her mother were seeking out relatively common nose reconstructions when they went shopping for surgery.

Kassinger, 31, who lives in Little Silver, N.J., says she always wanted to change her nose. A self-described “petite woman with smallish features,” she says she never felt her long, thin nose fit her face. But, as a professional dancer, she couldn’t take time off to recover. About two years ago, no longer dancing professionally, she decided to take the plunge.

She had read an article on facial plastic surgery expert Dr. Andrew Jacono, a plastic surgeon in Great Neck, N.Y., that interested her. So Kassinger went with her father, who lives in Bayside, N.Y., to visit Jacono. After the consultation, Kassinger says, she “couldn’t stop raving about” the doctor.

Her parents are divorced. Her mother, 52, lives in Arizona. “My mother and I are very close, and we look a lot alike,” Kassinger says. “I must have triggered something in her that made her feel like she wanted to have (her nose) done, too.”

On a leap of faith, Kassinger’s mother flew in to have surgery the same day.

The ASPS statistics show that 42% more women and 44% more men had cosmetic surgery in 2005 than in 2000. Doctors say several factors contributed to the increase.

For one thing, new techniques and technology have reduced scarring and recovery time, making the prospect of surgery more attractive.

“You can do a face lift now with tiny little incisions, about the size of a straw, in the scalp,” says Jacono, who wrote a book, Face the Facts, about facial plastic surgery procedures. “That is not something that was an option years ago.”

Doctors caution that not all minimally invasive procedures work.

“We’re concerned about complications,” says Joseph O’Connell, a plastic surgeon in Westport, Conn. “And we’re concerned about effectiveness, and we’re not sure about the longevity of results.”

Another factor driving the growth of cosmetic surgery is a widespread change of attitude. People are no longer reluctant to talk about having work done, which leads to word-of-mouth business for doctors.

“It’s a very different attitude than 10 or 15 years ago, when everyone kept it under the radar,” says Ira Papel, president of the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.

“People are doing it in groups now because it’s not such a taboo,” Jacono adds. “Everyone’s doing it, so why not do it with a friend?”

Doctors say a benefit to couples having plastic surgery together is they can take care of each other. But some doctors don’t like doing both surgeries on the same day. “I don’t like to have them do it at the same time, because one helps care for the other during the recovery process,” says Scott Chapin, a plastic surgeon in Doylestown, Pa.

For Kassinger and her mother, double surgery worked well. While bruising under their eyes healed and swelling lessened, the two women hunkered down at Kassinger’s father’s house, watching movies and E! True Hollywood Story episodes. “We saw, like, every character from 90210,” she says.

Although Kassinger is happy with her new nose, she says she doesn’t want any more major work done.

“A little Botox, possibly, as I get older, but major surgery, no,” she says. “My mom is another situation. She might consider doing work because with her nose, she went through the process, and she saw how good that made her look.”

Will they get work done together again?

“Next time she comes to New York, that might be a possibility.”

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Doctor Jacono’s desire to become a facial plastic surgeon was solidified in grade school. There was a girl on his school bus route who was born with a cleft lip and palate deformity. Unfortunately, whenever she spoke, air and words escaped through her nose. Kids teased her and were cruel, and nobody would sit next to her on the bus, so he decided to sit with her. One day, the girl had plastic surgery and returned to school with her face repaired. Suddenly, classmates saw her face instead of her deformity and immediately treated her normally. It was at that moment that Doctor Jacono knew he wanted to fix people’s faces and change their lives. This is why he has gone on over twenty plastic surgery missions to poor countries around the world and provided free cleft lip and surgery for birth defects to over 500 children.

Because of this experience in his childhood, Doctor Jacono understands that one of our basic needs as human beings is to feel confident about our appearance. It’s is Doctor Jacono’s passion to help his patients achieve their facial aesthetic goals, creating natural appearing results to either enhance their beauty and proportion or rejuvenate their aging appearance. He is a world-renowned leader in the field of facial plastic surgery and only performs surgery on the face, not the body. He has innovated many facelift, eyelid lift, and rhinoplasty surgical techniques, publishing in leading peer reviewed literature and lecturing at plastic surgery conferences all over the world. He is committed to sharing what he has learned teaching surgeons from around the world.

His approach is to maintain your uniqueness and facial identity; it is still you just better. To do this he uses a customized, bespoke approach to each patient employing the most minimally invasive, innovative, and cutting-edge technology. Doctor Jacono has never performed the same procedure on any two of the thousands of patients he has treated. He is committed to providing his surgical expertise in a caring, supportive environment with a professional staff that has you as their focus and concern.