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Hiding behind dark glasses and a pseudonym, a pretty young girl last week emerged from Tokyo's Jujin Hospital of Cosmetic Surgery. She had given her name as Miss Dang Tuyet Mai of South Viet Nam. But from the moment she arrived, she had got special attention-as befits the First Lady of any nation. For the patient was, in fact, Madame Nguyen Cao Ky, 24-year-old wife of the Premier of South Viet...
...visited one of Japan's foremost plastic-surgery clinics? "We cannot reveal what sort of treatment Madame came for," volunteered a doctor on the Jujin staff. "That would be unethical." Madame Ky was only slightly more helpful: "I want to be more charming to my husband...
Japanese surgeons can perform miracles. Jujin Hospital's Dr. Fumio Umezawa was once asked to remodel an unknown Hong Kong actress to look like a star who had died in the middle of a movie; his work was so perfect that superstitious studio hands swore they were seeing a ghost. After nearly three decades of plastic surgery, in fact, Dr. Umezawa admits to only one failure. It involved a Japanese movie actress who had come to him for the insertion of bags of silicone jelly to build up her breasts. Shortly after the operation, she had to go before...
...patient been her mother's age, with bags under her eyes, she could have had these removed for $13.88. Building up the bust, sometimes done with tissue injections of which U.S. surgeons strongly disapprove, costs $55 to $83. The Jujin surgeons' success is attested by the fact that they do 20,000 cosmetic operations a year-70% on the eyelids, 20% to build up the bridge of the nose, often with a plastic insert (which costs...
...Jujin's eyelid surgery technique was devised by the hospital's director, Dr. Fumio Umezawa, 52, who got into plastic surgery after his own child was disfigured in an accident, needed extensive reconstruction. "The thing I like best," says Umezawa, "is to stand at the door and watch the faces of the patients as they leave. The happiness they feel enhances the work we have done for them. They look beautiful...