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FRIDAY, Aug. 14, 2020 (HealthDay News) — People whose only contact with the outside world is Zoom are taking a close look at themselves and flocking to plastic surgeons for face-lifts and eye lifts, The New York Times<\/i> reported Thursday.<\/p>\n
“I have never done so many face-lifts in a summer as I’ve done this year,” Diane Alexander, M.D., a plastic surgeon in Atlanta, told The Times<\/i>. She had done more than 250 procedures from May 18 through the end of July. “Pretty much every face-lift patient that comes in says: ‘I’ve been doing these Zoom calls and I don’t know what happened but I look terrible,'” Alexander said, adding that: “This is the weirdest world I live in. The world is shut down, we’re all worried about global crisis, the economy is completely crashing, and people come in and still want to feel good about themselves.”<\/p>\n
The trend is surprising in a bad economy, because cosmetic surgery is not covered by insurance and procedures can cost up to $25,000 for a full body makeover, $3,300 for eyelid surgery, and $10,000 for breast lift and enhancement, The Times<\/i> reported. Patients report they are using money they would have spent on travel, concerts, sports tickets, and the like.<\/p>\n
Lynn Jeffers, M.D., president of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, told The Times<\/i> that the nationwide “demand is definitely busier than what we had expected,” though she added: “What we don’t know is if the pent-up demand is transitory, and will go back to normal, or will even dip.”<\/p>\n