I was at a restaurant the other day
and there were four guys sitting at the table right next to ours. They were talking about soccer teams, for
what seemed like all night! I was not eavesdropping
on their conversation but they were pretty loud. It was unbelievable. Like nothing else mattered in the world. We were at the restaurant for about 3 hours
enjoying our meal, and the guys were … well, all about football. The US team did this, and the Brazilian team
did that, and what about so and so player playing in the Argentinian team and
so forth.
The next day I went to have my
nails done and all the TV screens in the room were showing the “Germany-France”
game. And that’s when it hit me! There is a soccer season, a basketball
season, a strawberry-picking season … is there a season for plastic surgeries?
It would seem that there is not, as
people have plastic surgeries done throughout the year and wherever you go,
whichever party or gathering you go to, there is always someone talking about
plastic surgery. But I could not leave
my question unanswered and rest assured with this vagueness. So I researched it!
And voila! Yes, there is
seasonality in plastic surgery. Not in
terms of whether one visits the plastic surgeon or not, but instead it is a
matter of which procedures are performed at particular seasons. It was fascinating and exiting to see that. I had never thought about it before.
So when is the best time of the
year to have a surgery performed?
Well, it seems that during the spring,
and especially between April and June, breast augmentation, body contouring, tummy
tuck and liposuction are the procedures of choice. Reason being that we start thinking about the
horrifying time of putting a swimsuit on! And of course when we do go ahead to
try the ones from the year before, seeing the extra fat that was not there last
year, gets us panicky and off we go to the plastic surgeon to take care of
that. Needless to say that we realize
that we would look so much better if we actually fill the top part of the
bathing suit and ask for breast augmentation as well. Of course, if we are at the stage of our life
when everything goes south and gravity takes over, then we might throw a breast
lift in the menu as well.
The summer, meaning July and
August, is a bit slower and only minor procedures are performed … however this
also depends on our vacation time, because we could utilize that period for
recovery, without having to take time off work.
It will also depend on when we actually schedule our holidays because if
we actually plan them for the beginning of the summer, then we might as well
have our procedures done right after we get back.
The fall, which in plastic surgery
terms runs from September through December, is the preferred time to have
facial surgery, ranging from a facelift, to blepharoplasty or rhinoplasty. Wearing scarves or using heavier makeup is
easier when it’s colder, than in the middle of summer when the temperatures are
ski rocketing. Having said that, procedures such as breast augmentation,
liposuction, tummy tuck and mastopexy are not excluded from this period. It is
a great time for these type of procedures too, as this gives enough time for
all swelling to go down and for the final result of surgery to be eminent … and
all this for the next bathing suit season! Plus bandages and dressings can be
covered up much easier in layers of clothes and sweaters than tank tops and
shorts, which are warn in the warmer months.
Naturally the week between
Christmas and New Years could be perfectly used for any procedure and its
recovery, so instead of going skiing in Denver you might as well use that time
off work to have just about any type of plastic surgery. Mid December through March is really the “all
procedures go” time of the year.
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