Curious about whether such anecdotal evidence would bear out statistically, I added a question about cosmetic surgery to The Next Mormons survey, a nationally representative sample of 1155 current Mormons. The results were quite ordinary and nonspectacular: Mormons as a whole have almost the exact same rate of self-reported plastic surgery procedures as people in the general population, as measured in a 2016 Pew survey. It’s three-tenths of a point higher, which is not statistically significant. Among Mormon women, it’s even lower than for women nationally. Moreover, Utah Mormons’ rate of cosmetic surgery isn’t outsized at all. Among all Utah Mormons, 3.7% have had plastic surgery, slightly less than the 4% national average for all Americans. For Utah women, it’s 5.6%. That’s also a little less than the national average for women, which is 7%.