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...sign of the great democratization of plastic surgery that her unveiling can be portrayed as a family event--like a birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese, only slightly more disturbing. "Having work done" was once something rich people did, quietly, and everyone else whispered about, cattily. Then came Botox--the relatively cheap and painless gateway drug of cosmetic work--and plastic surgery was being touted in women's magazines and on talk shows. This has been a boon to surgeons, but it has turned plastic surgery into the new Las Vegas: once laced with glamour and vice, now opened...
...nudists offer for going around without clothes is relaxation: as confining garments fall away, so do the worldly responsibilities that they signify. Many nudists--especially women--also argue that the nudist subculture prizes body acceptance, meaning they don't have to stop eating carbs or fat; there is little Botox here...
...Botox and Beyond" described some new methods of cosmetic surgery [HEALTH, May 19]. You called Cymera perhaps the "creepiest substance" being used to fill wrinkles because it is made from the skin of human cadavers. I ask which is creepier and probably more dangerous: Botox, short for botulinum toxin, a paralyzing poison, or natural human skin? As a physician, I have to ask myself if it is ethical to spend time and money on cosmetic, forever-young potions when disorders like obesity, hypertension and cancer plague our society. J. GREGORY RIDGWAY, D.O. Yuma, Ariz...
...reporter for The Crimson, I have eaten lentil soup at Café Algiers with the Square’s living statue “The Bride,” seen the Rocky Horror Picture show, documented the quiet closing of countless stores. I watched women get injected with Botox at a swank Newbury Street clinic for my thesis, and have seen the sun rise while walking back from 14 Plympton St. to Eliot House...
...principle is simple. While Botox works by paralyzing the facial muscles that help form wrinkles, fillers plump up wrinkles from within the dermis, or inner skin. Most of them do so by replenishing collagen. As we age, sun damage and pollution turn collagen--the protein scaffolding that holds the inner skin firm--into protein mush. At the same time, the dermis begins to lose much of the moisture it once retained, and it becomes parched, withered and incapable of keeping the outer skin taut. "Fillers give youth to the face because they add the volume that time has taken away...