Is video chat causing a 'Zoom boom' in facial cosmetic surgery?

Since the first lockdowns of March 2020, cosmetic surgery specialists have been reporting a dramatic rise in requests for minor facial procedures.

Since the first lockdowns of March 2020, cosmetic surgery specialists have been reporting a dramatic rise in requests for minor facial procedures in the wake of the global shift to remote working.

In the US, 64% of plastic surgeries were reporting an increase in their telemedicine consultations by June 2020. "Unlike the still and filtered selfies of social media, Zoom displays an unedited version of oneself in motion, a self-depiction very few people are used to seeing on a daily basis," write the authors of a November 2020 study on the impact of Zoom on self-perception.

"Webcams, inevitably recording at shorter focal lengths, tend to produce an overall more rounded face, wider set eyes and broader nose." In any case, the rise in minor facial procedures due to a more intensive preoccupation with self-image is also worrying many specialists in Germany.

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