The NYT reports on new trends in plastic surgery:
The buttocks implant is one procedure that physicians are watching closely. ''I think the thing that's really unknown here,'' Dr. Young said, ''is what the role of gluteal augmentation is going to be. We only started keeping statistics on it a year ago.'' The numbers are still small; 3,885 procedures were performed last year, a 533 percent increase over 2002. If Americans turn out to be as crazy about buttocks as they are about breasts, plastic surgery has a whole new source of income. More than 280,000 women had breast implants in 2003.