More men turning to cosmetic surgery

Trend attributed to selfies, longer work careers

By Steve Twedt, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

January 1, 2015 | 11:55 am

PITTSBURGH Plastic surgeon Leo McCafferty believes selfies have something to do with it.

There are all of these pictures and you say to yourself, I look older than I feel, Dr. McCafferty says. People are working longer and people want to look as young as they feel.

Whatever the reason, the number of middle-aged and older men signing up for cosmetic surgery has increased nearly threefold in the past 15 years as guys seek a more youthful appearance, or at least a delay before the telltale sags of aging settle in.

Financial adviser Jim Wehrheim, 64 with no plans of retiring, sought out Dr. McCafferty six years ago about a double chin that threatened to overtake his jawline. I did it for myself, he says. I just didnt like the way I looked.

Its a familiar theme among his male patients, McCafferty said. I think certainly theres an element of vanity, but a certain amount of vanity is good. We need to kind of take care of ourselves.

Another patient of Dr. McCaffertys, Bruce, a 55-year-old executive from Chicago who underwent a facelift earlier this month, freely admits the procedure was all about me.

We men are aging, but we are staying in shape and exercising and working out. So from the neck down, we could be in our 30s or 40s. So you just want the face to match, says Bruce, who asked that his last name not be published.

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More men turning to cosmetic surgery