It's A Face-Lifted, Tummy-Tucked Jungle Out There

The economy with its sundry causes and effects has endangered a few institutions of another type: the CEO belly, the wizened, wrinkled face of experience, the high forehead of a seasoned intellect, the furrowed brow of the thinking man. Now, in this age of downsizing and saving, success must feel out of reach, a world away from the fat-cat executive style savored by the fathers of today's corporate men and women. Executives are taking their salaries and applying them in a way that executive-placement firms are endorsing: measures to look younger, with smooth skin, a full head of hair, a taut stomach, and for female execs, a firm, youthful bust-line with a set of Beverly Hills breast implants. Unlike Calvin Klein and Fredericks of Hollywood underwear models with washboard stomachs and classic hourglass figures, executives looking for jobs (or trying to hold onto them) don't have three hours a day to devote to the gym.

What they do have is more responsibility and the physiques that go with that stress, according to a top local Beverly Hills cosmetic surgeon. They complain about bags under their eyes, wrinkles, graying and thinning hair, rolls in the midsection.

And as if to prove true the proverb "Where one door closes, another opens," downsizing seems to have helped spur a boom in another area: businesses that offer effective ways for making women and men look young, healthy and fit. For men, plastic surgery offers pectoral implants to make the chest appear more muscular, and calf muscle implants to give the leg a bodybuilder shape. There is Beverly Hills liposuction to counter thickening middles and accumulating breast and fatty tissue in the chest, and as for tummy tuck Beverly Hills plastic surgeons report that this in-demand procedure is sought after by both men and women. There are a half-dozen surgical methods for tightening skin and temporarily delaying the inevitable aged face. For more information about cosmetic surgery that helps men and women achieve and maintain a youthful appearance throughout their professional careers, contact your local plastic surgeons to learn more.