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Crunch increases appointments - 5 September 2008

As the credit crunch threatens to develop itself into a fully-fledged recession, you might think that cosmetic surgery would be one of the first areas of the economy to suffer. While many treatments that are carried out are of huge psychological and confidence-boosting benefit to the patients concerned, most people would agree that the majority of cosmetic treatments are a luxury.

However, one cosmetic surgeon in particular is seeing more patients than ever, and thinks that the reason lies with the impending recession itself. Dr Brian Newman is a consultant vascular surgeon, and runs clinics specialising in the minimally-intrusive treatment of spider and vein threads, as well as facial redness conditions. He has seen a surge in appointments in his clinics in recent weeks and thinks that people who are feeling less secure in their jobs are tempted to change their appearance in order to avoid discrimination.

“Rosacea and thread veins on the face can knock sufferers’ confidence and sadly, there are misconceptions about the cause of face reddening,” he says. “I’ve treated patients who are worried colleagues will mistake a red nose as a sign of alcoholism and others who are concerned their acne-like rosacea is a sign of poor diet and health. In our image conscious times, poor self confidence can hold people back from achieving their full potential at work. Workers are nervous about their future career prospects and are taking steps to make sure they are not overlooked because of their personal appearance.”

Dr. Newman says that appointments at his clinics are up by around 60 per cent. Part of the attraction may well be that Dr. Newman pioneered thermocoagulation as a way of treating these facial conditions by means of microwave technology, which helps recovery times, and allows treatments to be carried out in a worker’s lunch hour, even though more than one treatment is sometimes necessary.

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