Men are seeking more cosmetic surgeries than ever

By Melanie Yates; Eyewitness NewsNEW YORK (WABC) -- For his whole life, Yacov Wrocherinsky had problems with his teeth and gums. He decided to fix the trouble once and for all and then address the aesthetics, spending thousands on porcelain veneers.

"It was a great personal experience. Also as a business owner, it's important for the image you portray and the confidence you have," Wrocherinsky said.

There's the competitive edge and then there's also body image issues. Yacov's dentist, Marc Lowenberg, says men used to invest in smile makeovers only under orders from their wives. Now, the men themselves have an image in their mind and want the smile to match.

"They've studied other people's smiles, even movie stars. They will even make reference to someone like Matthew McConaughey, and say 'I don't want my smile as bold as his, but I like the way his smile looks.' That's a mentality that men did not use to have, but they definitely have it now. And the most amazing thing is that today, in 2011, I have as many male patients as female patients," Dr. Lowenberg said.

Dermatologists and plastic surgeons agree. More men, young and old, are "investing," spending thousands on treatments and rejuvenations

Michael Sean's doctor, cosmetic surgeon Dr. Misbah Khan, says many of her male clients don't want invasive treatments, but more minimal procedures.

"Their main concern is to look younger, but not any kind of a wow factor that it takes several years off their face," said Dr. Khan.

Whether motivated to smile like a movie star or look better for business, men, more than ever, will pay for a lift.

"I definitely feel that people who take pride in how they look...they get far," Michael Sean said.

According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, the number of men who had cosmetic treatments rose to more than 1.1 million last year. In 2010, growth in certain procedures like face-lifts, liposuction and eyelid surgeries was much greater among men than women.

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Woman in Las Vegas seeking cosmetic surgery dies, pair charged

 Ruben Dario Mattallana-Galvas, 55, has been charged with one count of murder.NEW: The victim's daughter says her mother was injected by one suspectNEW: A suspect says the woman left off after getting a buttocks injectionTwo Colombian nationals have been charged with murder in Las VegasThey were caught as they were about to board a plane for South America

(CNN) -- Las Vegas police caught two people as they were about to board a plane for Colombia, then charged them with the murder of a woman who went missing hours after being dropped off for a cosmetic surgery procedure.

The female victim was dropped off Saturday morning to undergo a cosmetic procedure, according to a statement from the Las Vegas Police Department.

The victim's daughter contacted police after she was unable to find her mother at the same location where she had dropped her off about eight hours earlier. A police report, obtained and posted online by CNN affiliate KLAS, quoted the daughter as saying the office did not even have the same furniture in the office as was there earlier in the day.

The report claims that, before she left originally, the daughter saw the victim, identified as 42-year-old Elena Caro, disrobe and be injected in the buttocks by a man later identified by the daughter as one of the suspects, Ruben Dario Mattallana-Galvas. The daughter told police she got a call about an hour later from her mother, and was told to return several hours later.

In that span, authorities learned that the woman had been picked up in an ambulance about three miles north from the original location and taken to a local hospital. There, she was pronounced dead, according to the police statement.

Las Vegas police detectives soon identified two suspects as Mattallana-Galvas, 55, and Carmen Olfidia Torres-Sanchez, 47. Both are from Medellin, Colombia.

The pair were arrested Saturday night at McCarran International Airport, while preparing to board a flight for Colombia. The pair actually had tickets for April 22, but were hoping to leave the United States earlier, according to the police report.

Instead, they were taken to the Clark County Detention Center and each charged with one count of murder, police said.

Mattallana-Galvas and Torres-Sanchez are due to be formally arraigned in court Tuesday on the charges, according to Las Vegas police.

After being informed he was being arrested for murder and being read his Miranda rights, Mattallana-Galvas told detectives that Caro had come into his office that day for a buttocks enhancement procedure, the police report stated. He claimed that, afterward, Caro had walked away from his office.

Mattallana-Galvas admitted to authorities that he was not licensed to pr active medicine in Nevada, but claimed he was a homeopathic doctor in Colombia.

Also Saturday, Las Vegas detectives interviewed an assistant to Mattallana-Galvas, who claimed that Mattallana-Galvas told her to cancel his appointments for that afternoon because "something had gone wrong," the police report said. The assistant said that her husband eventually took Mattallana-Galvas to the airport.

The toxicology report examining the exact cause and timing of Caro's death is still pending, John Fudenberg, the assistant coroner for Clark County, said Monday evening.

CNN's Marlena Baldacci contributed to this report.

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