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...what one might buy on a spending spree in Harvard Square. The very existence of such stores seems to speak to a certain desire pervasive amongst us to accumulate, gather and spend: it lives, it breathes, it says “take me to Black Ink and buy some plastic sushi...
...collagen injections--conclude without incident. But with the number of these operations growing--8.3 million in 2003, a 293% increase from 1997--things can end badly more often. Part of the problem may be that it is not necessary, from a legal standpoint, to be trained as a plastic surgeon to practice plastic surgery. All a person needs is a medical degree. Doctors can choose to become certified by the American Medical Association--recognized American Board of Plastic Surgery. For that, they must complete seven years of training, including a three-year residency in general surgery and at least...
...recovery but also increases the time a patient is anesthetized, which can be risky. "I personally don't believe in procedures that go beyond five or six hours," says Dr. Robert Bernard, who operates in his Westchester, N.Y., office and is the president of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, whose members are all board-certified. "If somebody comes in and wants their face, eyes and nose done, that's O.K. But if they want that as well as breast reduction and a large amount of liposuction, I'd prefer to divide it into two procedures...
...their bodies. He says the show has generated good p.r. for the field, but he is worried that it raises unrealistic expectations. "People don't realize that subjects on the show are preselected," he says. "They're in excellent health, screened by psychologists and analyzed by the best plastic surgeons in the country to ensure that their transformation has the potential to look like a home run." Bernard points out that the subjects also work with dermatologists, cosmetic dentists and hair stylists...
Sometimes a patient can appear to do everything right but still end up paying the ultimate price. For her chin tuck, a procedure generally characterized as routine, Goldsmith chose the best board-certified plastic surgeon royalties could buy and had the operation at a respected hospital but still had a bad reaction to anesthesia. Her death was not necessarily related to plastic surgery; it might very well have happened during an emergency appendectomy. It did, however, cause a momentary flutter in the plastic-surgery community. Doctors across Florida, California and New York said they received a few concerned calls from...