Forget the Dow Jones average or the prime rate.

If you want to know how the economy is really doing -- check the boob job index.

Plastic surgeons report people are getting antsy about spending big bucks for bigger breasts or a nose job.

The Wall Street Journal reported that the slowdown was a hot topic at a recent meeting of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons in Baltimore.

Pittsburgh plastic surgeon Dr. J. Peter Rubin said the mortgage credit crisis is making people think twice.

And it's not just the plastic surgeons feeling the pinch. The Journal reports the number of vision-correction surgeries appears to be falling, too.

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