Designer Vaginas - A New Trend?

Women are increasingly turning to vaginal rejuvenation to correct issues developed during childbirth. Other women are using this fairly new procedure to correct what they believe Mother Nature made imperfect.

During these difficult economic times for surgeons and many other professionals in America, Sherman Leis who is a Bala Cynwyd, PA based plastic surgeon gives some credit to vaginoplasties and labiaplasties for his practice's success.

Vaginoplasty is suppose to tighten the vaginal canal and muscles stretched out by childbirth. Labiaplasty involves cutting uneven, hanging, beefy, or an discolored labia that a woman might think is uncomfortable or unpleasant to the eyes.

The procedure costs are approximately $4,000 on average. The American Society of Plastic Surgeons reported fewer than 800 vaginal rejuvenations in 2005. By 2009, the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery tallied more than 2,500.

Hymenoplasty or Revirginization are also procedures that are available today. Theses procedures are suppose to restore a woman's hymen. The Lansdale-based Laser Vaginal Rejuvenation Institute of Philadelphia offers "the G-Shot," in which a doctor injects collagen into a woman's G-spot to enlarge it.

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has warned against such procedures. In September 2007, The ACOG urged physicians to advise patients that procedures such as "vaginal rejuvenation, designer vaginoplasty, revirginization and G-spot amplification" have not been scientifically proven as safe or effective. Doctors should inform women about potential complications such as infection, altered sensation and scarring, the ACOG said.