It is also a fraction of what it costs in the United States, with a facelift going for $2,000 and a new abdomen costing $3,000, cheap enough to make plastic surgery increasingly affordable even to the middle class. Indeed, plastic surgery for men has become so accepted that recently Colombian surgeons met at a Bogotá hotel to discuss the latest procedures, on everything from male liposuction to pectoral implants. Panel discussions at the Symposium on Advances in Masculine Esthetic Surgery included ''narcissism and plastic surgery'' and ''what motivates a man to have plastic surgery.'' The motivation, it seems, is often to stay young-looking and attractive to compete in a working world where executives older than 30 worry fear for their jobs.
