Mergers and acquisitions in the medical beauty sector will pick up as more people, mainly women, aspire to keep youthful looks, said the scientific director of IMCAS, a group of plastic surgeons and dermatologists. IMCAS, the annual International Master Course on Ageing Skin congress, expects last year's 3.5 billion euro ($4.61 billion) medical beauty market to grow at an annual rate of 11 percent until 2014 to 5.3 billion euros, and to return to 2008 record levels of 3.8 billion euros this year. Growth in Europe should outpace that of the United States -- 11 percent compared with 9 percent -- mainly due to a catch-up in botulinum toxin shots and the availability of more products that temporarily remove facial lines by paralysing muscles.
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