A late-January report from the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery revealed a significant increase in patients telling their surgeons they were choosing their procedures with the goal of looking better in selfies. Numbers from the annual survey by the AAFPRS showed a 13-percent increase in that driving factor from 2016 to 2017\u2014which means a full 55 percent of the patients approaching member surgeons did so because of how they look (or want to look) on social media.<\/p>\n
\u201cSelfies\u201d first landed on the survey radar three years ago, when doctors began reporting the photographic self-portraits as a reason cited by patients coming to them for a facial change, whether surgical or nonsurgical. Chosen treatments and procedures include BOTOX\u00ae<\/sup> (a simple injection that relaxes wrinkle-forming muscles) and blepharoplasty<\/a> (a surgery that can improve the look and function of the upper eyelids, lower eyelids, or both).<\/p>\n Given that selfies have gone from zero to a major driver in the industry in just a few years, the academy dubbed them a \u201ccultural force, not fad.\u201d<\/p>\n Also among the results, 57 percent of the facial plastic surgeons in the survey noted that patients reported a desire to remain competitive in the workplace as a motivator for making a cosmetic change. A full 73 percent of the AAFPRS members said that blepharoplasty was a rising trend in 2017, performed on patients who wanted to look less tired.<\/p>\n Whether it\u2019s for Instagram or a shot at a promotion and a raise, facial procedures are clearly growing in popularity throughout the United States.<\/p>\n Dr. Stanley Jacobs is an American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery member devoted to facial plastic surgery at the San Francisco<\/a> Bay Area\u2019s Jacobs Center for Cosmetic Surgery. Find out more about blepharoplasty, BOTOX\u00ae<\/sup>, and other options for facial rejuvenation by contacting his office in Healdsburg at (707) 473-0220 or San Francisco at (415) 433-0303. Send a message online via his Contact Us page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A late-January report from the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery revealed a significant increase in patients telling their surgeons they were choosing their procedures with the goal of looking better in selfies. Numbers from the annual survey by the AAFPRS showed a 13-percent increase in that driving factor from 2016 to 2017\u2014which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":"","_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[68,54],"tags":[58,86,96,97],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-stanley-jacobs","category-plastic-surgery","tag-blepharoplasty","tag-botox","tag-facial-plastic-surgery","tag-social-media"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qbmarketing.com\/jccsnew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qbmarketing.com\/jccsnew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qbmarketing.com\/jccsnew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qbmarketing.com\/jccsnew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qbmarketing.com\/jccsnew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qbmarketing.com\/jccsnew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qbmarketing.com\/jccsnew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qbmarketing.com\/jccsnew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qbmarketing.com\/jccsnew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}