US spending on plastic surgery dips to $10 billion

NEW YORK - Americans reeling from a recession spent $10 billion on plastic surgery procedures last year, down 3 percent from 2008, with declines for all of the most popular procedures, according to new data.

Breast enlargement, nose jobs, eyelid surgery, liposuction and tummy tucks were all down, with liposuction showing the biggest decline, the latest figures from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) showed.

The top five procedures overall in 2009 were breast augmentation (down 6 percent); nose reshaping (down 8 percent); eyelid surgery (down 8 percent); liposuction (down 19 percent); and a "tummy tuck," or the surgical cutting of excess fat on the abdomen and stomach (down 5 percent).