Plastic Surgery Pageant in Hungary
October 27, 2009 by Marijke Durning, RN
Filed under Surgery
There’s no whispering, questioning or denying at this pageant: yes, the winner did have plastic surgery. So did the runners up, as did everyone else who entered. Miss Plastic Surgery Hungary 2009 is a pageant meant to help show women what plastic surgery can do for a woman and to promote it in a country where cosmetic surgery isn’t a popular option.
There were 18 contestants and they had to prove that they had had cosmetic surgery to be eligible; Botox and other types of injections were not considered. While the type of surgery didn’t matter, the majority of the women …read more
Cosmetic Surgery? Update Your Passport!
October 19, 2009 by Marijke Durning, RN
Filed under Travel and Health
If you’re thinking of having some cosmetic surgery on your face, you may also want to line up a replacement passport when you’re done. After all, if the new you is a big change from the old you, you could end up being held up in passport control if the officers think you may not be who you claim to be.
Don’t laugh – it’s happened. It is becoming increasingly popular in China for women to travel to South Korea for cosmetic surgery. Many women go because they want a more “western look” that is attained by rounding out the eyes …read more
Face Off, Face On.
Face Transplants – science fiction or medical reality?
French surgeon Laurent Lantieri, one of the doctors involved in operating on a Chinese man severely disfigured by a genetic disease, believes they are becoming a medical reality. He’s quoted in a recent article in The Lancet as saying “There is no reason to think these face transplants would not be as common as kidney or liver transplants one day”.
Just three years after the successful partial face transplant for a French woman viciously attacked by a dog, two more people have benefited from partial face transplants using tissue from deceased or comatose donors.
One …read more
Sign of the Times: Kids Book on Plastic Surgery
April 17, 2008 by Liberty Kontranowski
Filed under A Mother's Wisdom, Beauty, Boys & Girls, Children, Marketing, Media, Surgery, Your Body
You know when there is a book being marketed to the children of moms undergoing plastic surgery that the world we live in has changed…drastically.
Now, you will never, ever find me saying that plastic surgery is wrong. That is a completely individual choice, and one I would never even rule out for myself. But what you will find is me noting my surprise that there is a need for such a book.
Dr. Michael Saulzhauer, the author of “My Beautiful Mommy”, due out this Mother’s Day, drafted the book’s manuscript after seeing moms with their kids in tow during plastic surgery …read more
