The Impact of the Economy on the Plastic Surgery Industry in the Post-pandemic Era

Abstract

In today's era of rising aesthetics, there is growing consumer demand for cosmetic surgery, and more and more people are using plastic surgery as a way to achieve their high expectations for appearance and body. According to the data of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, the number of people who undergo plastic surgery activities in the United States each year is very large. Therefore, the plastic surgery industry is a very important industry in the United States and has a huge market. With the impact of COVID-19, the revenue of the U.S. plastic surgery industry continues to change from 2018 to 2021, with a significant downward trend in the most severe year, 2019. Several studies have argued that there may be a link between the plastic surgery industry and economic indicators, but the experimental subjects and results still differ. This study uses the Pearson correlation to conduct an experiment whose purpose is to explore the relationship between the revenue of plastic surgery in the United States and U.S. economic indicators. The results achieved show that GDP and CPI, among the economic indicators, are positively associated with the benefits of plastic surgery in the United States.