Okay, so I told myself I’m going to flip to a random page of my top 10 list book and write about the first one I see. Unfortunately, tonight I landed on top 10 cosmetic surgeries. Here’s my process… first I look at the title of the list and then try to think what the top couple of spots might be. For this one, I could only think of about three cosmetic surgery procedures, so I picked the following as my guesses: 1) nose job, 2) liposuction and 3) breast implants. Not knowing anything about any of these, I think I did a nice job of guessing. These three were in the top 4, but what the heck is cosmetic eyelid surgery? And who would ever need that?? Anyway, here are the top 10 cosmetic surgeries performed in the United States. (The numbers represent procedures performed in 2006).

1. Liposuction, 403,000
2. Breast augmentation, 384,000
3. Cosmetic eyelid surgery, 210,000
4. Nose reshaping, 142,000
5. Tummy tuck, 172,000
6. Breast reduction (women), 146,000
7. Facelift, 138,000
8. Breast lift, 126,000
9. Forehead lift, 54,000
10. Breast reduction (men), 24,000

Worth mentioning is that Americans spent $7.6 Billion on these procedures. Throw in non-surgical cosmetic procedures such as botox injections and the total is $12.2 Billion. this is amazing. And I think speaks a lot either about our level of disposable income or maybe our vainness. Posted by admin for the educational best selling toys of 2008 at Atomic Elephant Toy.