Cosmetic medical care, already popular, has gained a big boost with the coming of age of the postwar baby-boom generation, whose size will continue to drive the cosmetic medicine machine through the next several decades. Since World War II, youth has been our defi ning cultural ideal, and in recent decades people middle- aged or older have found their social currency devalued. Cosmetic surgeons used to see as patients mostly socialites, millionaires, wannabe movie stars, and those with ethnic noses; now they see patients from nearly every age, economic, and ethnic group. Read the rest of this entry »