According to a report in the Independent, demand for surgery to combat Bingo Wings is on the increase in the US.
The flabby bit underneath arms was given the nickname of ‘bingo wings’ for some bizarre reason and it has stuck ever since.
The surgical procedure for bingo wings is an upper arm lift or in clinical terms it is called a brachioplasty. This is where surgeons would remove the excess flabby fat from under the arm. The demand for the bingo wings procedure has gone up by more than 4,000 percent in just a decade in the United States.
Figures showed that over 15,000 upper arm lifts were performed in the US last year alone. Which in reality is still a quite a small percentage compared to their population of around 315 million people.
In the year 2000, just 300 people underwent the bingo wings procedure in the US, so when you fast forward to 2012 with over 15,000 operations being performed it is a significant rise. The figures also showed that 98% of people who had the op were women and they was mostly middle aged.
According to British experts, demand for this op in the UK is still relatively low, but trends from the US usually find their way to the United Kingdom, which means we could see it on the increase in the not so distant future.
If skin is still tight under the arms, it is thought liposuction could be the answer to remove excess fat. There is also lots of exercise techniques listed on the net which could be tried before resorting to surgery.
When people lose a lot of weight, this can leave them with rolls of excess skin over their body and it certain places like under the upper arms, this can be more noticeable so sometimes surgery is the only option to remove the flabby skin.
A competition was run by an online bingo comparison site unlucky for some in 2009, where they went on a nationwide search to find their bingo wings idol.
They had over 200 applicants for the competition and 10 were shortlisted to attend a special casting session which was held in London. All the women who entered were happy to show off their assets and the Bingo Wings Idol Crown went to Iliana Flade who is shown in the picture above.
Some people are happy with their bingo wings, and some are not as always it is down to the individual.
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