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The COVID-19 pandemic has brought along with it a whole lot of changes within the private and the public spheres. Among them: relaxed work-from-home guidelines, revamped restaurant experiences and an intense global dedication to personal hygiene.
But, perhaps most surprisingly given stagnant work, inevitable furloughs and hospitals’ focus on life-threatening medical procedures at the start of the pandemic, more Americans have been undergoing both invasive and non-invasive cosmetic procedures than ever before.
According to the Aesthetic Plastic Surgery National Databank, the top non-surgical procedures that Americans underwent in 2020 are neurotoxins such as Botox (2,643,366) and fillers (1,313,206). The former has increased by 54% since 2019 while the latter is up 75% in total. Overall, the industry’s revenue has increased exponentially, thanks to a vast variety of surgeries.