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Though President Ronald Reagan is often credited with ending the Cold War and having a hand in bringing down the Berlin Wall, in her book American Plastic: Boob Jobs, Credit Cards, and Our Quest for Perfection<\/em>, author Laurie Essig asserts that The Gipper\u2019s trickle down economic theories have made plastic surgery <\/a>more readily available to lower-income Americans.<\/p>\n

Essig claims that after the implementation of trickle down economics, a theory she sees as less-than-successful, many Americans were put at an economic disadvantage and later began to see plastic surgery as a remedy to their financial troubles, though it could put them into deeper debt. Some saw plastic surgeries increasingly as a way to further their careers (or simply hold onto them), and less as just elective procedures to look more thin or beautiful, according to a 2.5 star review of the book for Bloomberg Businessweek.<\/p>\n

Most of the 140 patients Essig interviewed for American Plastic saw plastic surgery as somewhat of a necessity in an ever-growing (and increasingly younger) job market. To that effect, one woman told Essig, \u201cit\u2019s about how you look, not what you do. I do believe that nine times out of 10, women with the hot bodies get the best jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n

More than just tummy tucks<\/a> and liposuction<\/a> leading the industry, Essig sees Botox<\/a> with its dropping prices and ease of availability driving middle and lower income consumers into their plastic surgeon\u2019s office and as they seek increased confidence in an uncertain economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Though President Ronald Reagan is often credited with ending the Cold War and having a hand in bringing down the Berlin Wall, in her book American Plastic: Boob Jobs, Credit Cards, and Our Quest for Perfection, author Laurie Essig asserts that The Gipper\u2019s trickle down economic theories have made plastic surgery more readily available to … Continue reading New Book Explores Relationship Between Economics and Plastic Surgery<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72],"class_list":["post-778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-american-plastic-book"],"yoast_head":"\nNew Book Explores Relationship Between Economics and Plastic Surgery - Center For Aesthetics and Plastic Surgery<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Though President Ronald Reagan is often credited with ending the Cold War and having a hand in bringing down the Berlin Wall, in her book American\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stevenringlermd.com\/blog\/new-book-explores-relationship-between-economics-and-plastic-surgery\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New Book Explores Relationship Between Economics and Plastic Surgery - 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