Word: botox
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Botox for the Back...
Maurizio Viel cheerfully admits that he has had a nose job and gets regular botox injections to erase the wrinkles from his tanned face. But then Viel, 41, and his twin brother Roberto are plastic surgeons who operate the London Centre for Aesthetic Surgery. And while Maurizio is a walking advertisement for the benefits of modern cosmetic surgery, their clinic needs no promoting. Business, they say, has doubled since...
...boom is fueled in large part by new, less costly "quick fix" techniques that don't involve major surgery: botox injections that temporarily eradicate facial lines, derma-fills that smooth out wrinkles and scars and build up lips and cheeks, and laser beams that zap away lines. Liposuction, the process of vacuuming fat from the body, is gaining in popularity thanks to advances in keyhole surgery and other less intrusive techniques...