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From the LAT June 2005 on breast augmentation:

Augmentation patients typically fall into three groups, says Dr. Steven Teitelbaum, a Santa Monica plastic surgeon. These include women who want the "Baywatch" look; what Teitelbaum calls "the smallest group but, unfortunately, the poster child for augmentation." These mostly younger women were children when implant safety questions first emerged, he notes, and may be especially disinterested in the safety controversy.

The more typical augmentation patients, he says, are women who never developed breasts during puberty and the "postpartum" group, women whose breasts were once satisfactory but have changed due to aging, pregnancy and breast-feeding. He says the surge in women seeking augmentation is due largely to the postpartum group and attitudes among these women about maintaining the figures of their youth.

According to a 2003 survey of 5,000 women funded by the Aesthetic Surgery Education and Research Foundation, the median age of augmentation patients is 34, and 75% are married. "Women want their bodies back after finishing with their babies," Teitelbaum says. "Women have more of a sense that they deserve it. They are working so hard on their bodies at the gym, and [breasts] are one thing they can't fix themselves."