New research shows that women who have turned to cosmetic surgery to reduce the size of their breasts are very satisfied with the results.
A study by Dr Line Breiting of Herlev Hospital, Denmark, looked at data provided by 125 women who had undergone breast reduction surgery, and surgeons operating in Denmark’s private and public health sectors.
Six months after their treatments, almost 90 per cent of patients rated their satisfaction level as either “good” or “very good”. This percentage fell to 80 per cent after one year. Medical experts shown before and after photographs of the women were more critical however, posting ratings of “good” or “very good” in 75 per cent of cases.
The research also highlighted the importance that surgeons place on technical factors such as the position of the nipple, while patients were found to base their level of satisfaction on aesthetic factors, for example how symmetrical their breasts were following surgery.
Dr Breiting and the co-authors of the report highlighted the link between a patient’s level of understanding prior to a procedure and satisfaction afterwards.
“one must not underestimate the importance of factors like pre-operative information about the surgery and complications, together with proper and qualified care,” the report said.
“the better the information and the higher the confidence level, the better was the outcome.”
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Treating serious burns with reconstructive plastic surgery will not lead to a complete recovery, experts warn.
Dr Sylvia Angerer, acting chief of plastic surgery at Mafraq Hospital, said operating on children was particularly difficult because of the sensitivity of their skin.
Her department often sees newborns with burns covering more than half their bodies.
“In many cases, babies get burned from water [in] the bathtub when parents accidentally turn on the tap and hot water is pouring out,” she said. “The water temperature isn’t regulated and in the summer months even the cold water can get very hot.”
To treat a burn, all of the burnt tissue is removed and this is followed by skin grafts, where healthy skin is taken from another part of the body and transferred on to the burn.
“The problem with children is that they don’t have a lot of skin available,” Dr Angerer said. “In many cases the burns aren’t deep, but because the skin is thin it’s more prone to complications.”
Patients often have to wear a compression garment that is tightly wrapped around the wound for six months to a year to prevent scarring.
Plastic surgery does not mean you will come out looking as good as new, Dr Angerer said. “After a burn accident the patient will have disfiguring scarring no matter how well you operate,” she said.
Recovery time ranges from two weeks to two months.
If you are about to get plastic surgery, and want to make sure that you can afford it, you should inquire about credit cards just for medical and beauty expenses. most clinics offer patients at least one such card. if you are thinking of going this route, there are a few things you need to do to prepare.
You first need to find out how much the plastic surgery will cost you, with all expenses in the total. once you have a total bill, you need to let your doctor know that you are interested in the health credit card. He or she should direct you to a staff member, who will sit down with you and determine the credit limit you will need. once you determine a good number, you should find out how long you will have to pay it off. You typically have anywhere between six months and two years, depending on the total. the more you charge to the card, the longer you should have to pay it off. Make sure you can afford the monthly payments before you decide to apply. if you cannot pay it all off by the due date, you will end up paying interest on the total, making this route more expensive than you planned.
Once you know you can afford it, it is time to apply. You will need to fill out a form that includes your contact information, your approximate income, and your job details. You need to have regular income if you expect to be able to pay off the bill, though not all clinics require you to bring in paystubs to prove it. In fact, you can usually get approved the same day you apply. the staff member helping you will then have to call in the application, which may require a credit check, so you should have a decent score to qualify.
If you do get approved, you can immediately use the money that is available. This means you can get the plastic surgery as soon as your doctor allows you to. You will likely get your first bill for the first payment about a month after you get the card. Be sure to pay on time every month, however, or you will end up paying interest and late fees.
Clearly, this is often the best way to get your procedure done quickly since you do not have to wait long to be approved. Unfortunately, not everyone qualifies, and not everyone can commit to monthly payments, so make sure you know how this process will work before you depend on it to pay for your plastic surgery.
Hypodermic Needle Theory is a theory that suggests that mass media has a direct, immediate and powerful effect on its audiences (Hypodermic needle model, n.d.). The audiences are passively receiving and completely accepting the intended messages sent by the mass media to them. “It suggests that mass media inject messages and information directly and uniformly into audiences’ minds who immediately will be influenced” (Al-Hassnawi 2009).
The Korean movie Time is about a couple, Seh Hee and Ji Woo, who have been together for two years. Seh Hee started to get jealous when her fiancé, Ji Woo, eyes other women and especially when they were making love, Ji Woo gets excited thinking of making love with another woman. This made Seh Hee think that her fiancé is getting tired of her and the way she looked. and so she decided to undergo plastic surgery so that her boyfriend will fall in love with her all over again. She disappeared for six months which is good enough for the scars to heal, leaving Ji Woo hurt, depressed and thinking that Seh Hee does not love him anymore. When Seh Hee came back as a new See Hee, she tried to seduce her old boyfriend but Ji Woo is still in love with his old girlfriend Seh Hee. She managed to win his heart but she is jealous with her old self as Ji Woo is still very much in love with the old Seh Hee. When Ji Woo learned the truth about Seh Hee and See Hee that they were the same person, he went crazy and decided to go to the clinic where Seh Hee did her plastic surgery. he, too, went to change his face to let Seh Hee feel what he felt when she changed her appearance. “Time is steeped in a quiet, disturbing violence that censors feelings and mutilates the soul through body surgery” (Time (Shi gan) [2006] (Korean Movie), 2007).
Time is considered an example of a Magic Bullet Theory or Hypodermic Needle Theory because of the influence and manipulation that the media producers and creators created in the movie. They manipulated the audiences’ thoughts and injected information and messages about plastic surgery. The movie conveys the message to the audience that in South Korea, it is very much easy to go under plastic surgery because plastic surgery clinics can be found everywhere and that it is a norm for the South Korean citizens to undergo cosmetic surgery. It also tells the audiences that people, especially women, should look beautiful and attractive so they can be easily accepted in the society. Furthermore, this movie suggested that men are attracted to women who are beautiful and attractive. and so, those people who have watched this movie, especially those girls who are attached, will think that their boyfriends or husbands would want them to look more attractive like in the movie. thus they will have the mindset of undergoing plastic surgery so as to please their boyfriend’s or husband’s wishes of having attractive and beautiful girlfriend or wife. even to those who are single, they will also undergo plastic surgery so that they could get their preferred and chosen partner.
“In countries such as China, Taiwan, Japan and especially South Korea, plastic surgery appears to be on the rise and can be described as a commonplace by some accounts” (Tewari & Alvarez 2009, p.550). “Plastic surgery has become so common in South Korea that more than thirty percent of Korean women between the ages of twenty and fifty have had a cosmetic procedure” (Cosmetic Plastic Surgery in South Korea, n.d.). looks for South Koreans are very important as it would ensure them socioeconomic benefits and also they will be very proud of themselves and gain self-confidence. As there is an intense competition for jobs, education and marriage partners, Koreans keep improving their looks so as to achieve their goal on getting to the top in society. “In Korea, it has become a piece of street wisdom that appearance is the most important qualification for employment as well as for enhancing self-confidence” (Chang & Kim 2005, p.122). even though there is news about the negative side effects of having ample amount of cosmetic surgeries on one’s face, this does not really prevent the people, especially the Koreans, from getting their cosmetic surgeries. according to Japan Probe, when the Korean woman who have ” botched double-eyelid surgery has one eye that opens much more than the other and one of her eyelids cannot entirely close” (James 2007) did not really convince the customers from getting their procedure done because they know that it is a rare case to have it and that they trust the surgeons to do a perfect job on their faces.
“The most popular Korean plastic surgery operations, double eyelid surgery to create an upper eyelid crease and rhinoplasty to enhance the structure of the nose, are very different from their equivalents in the West” (Cosmetic Plastic Surgery in South Korea, n.d.). To have bigger eyes in South Korea is every girl’s dream and so most of the girls in the country will go for plastic surgery for the eyes. “Teenagers as young as 14 are doing it, and eye jobs have become a favorite high school graduation gift from proud parents” (Ko, n.d.). Winter vacations are when clinics in South Korea are busiest. This result from the many senior high school graduates who want to change their appearances to have better chances in entering college or the workplace. The vastly popular choice of undergoing plastic surgery is getting double eyelids. Nose jobs have been also rising in popularity among teens in South Korea. Competition is what South Korea has become, thus leaving behind conservation. due to the popularity of teenagers undergoing plastic surgery, parents are so willing to let their children undergo plastic surgery because they are afraid that their children will fall behind, not just in academics but also with aesthetics. Dr.Shim Hyung Bo, a plastic surgeon practicing in Seoul said that “Parents make their kids get plastic surgery, just like they make them study. They realize looks are important for success” (Ko, n.d.).
Plastic surgery in South Korea is not only popular with women but also with men. They feel and think that it can improve their career prospect if they undergo plastic surgery. in the South Korea’s entertainment industry, looks is very much important as much as the talent counts (Gluck 2001). Korean actors and pop singers undergo plastic surgery to look more attractive and to please their fans. in a BBC report, Kim Suk Min said “I got my nose done to please my fans, so I could look more attractive. Also I had some breathing problems, and the surgery helped with that as well” (Gluck 2001).
Since plastic surgery is so common in South Korea, it does not matter to them if their idols have undergone plastic surgery. The people could not really care less if they see their idols has undergone plastic surgery or born with natural beauty. for them, being famous needs to be attractive and so the citizens in South Korea, especially the actors, actresses and pop singers goes under the knife just as to keep up with the trend and to please the society. It does not matter to the people if one has undergone cosmetic surgery as because beauty on the outside makes one person stands out in the society. for instance, “BoA has been reported to have had plastic surgery for her eyes at least three times, along with numerous operations in other parts of her body and yet, she continues to be one of the biggest-selling acts both in her homeland and in other Asian countries like Japan and China” (K-Pop’s Dirty little Secret: Plastic Surgery, 2008). Cosmetic work adds value to the Korean actresses and pop singers’ careers instead of having negative effects from it.
Considering the vast popularity of plastic surgery in South Korea, people from other countries flock to the country to have their plastic surgery done as the price of getting the surgery done in South Korea is much cheaper than in any other countries. according to online news from Japan Probe, during the Golden Week in Japan, Japanese traveled to South Korea to get their plastic surgeries done and since the holiday was quite long, it gave the patients to let their swollen faces heal before they returned back to work (James 2007). It is common for the Japanese to get their double eyelid done and make their eyes big, same as the Koreans, because they do not really like having small eyes.
The media influences women to live under increasing pressure to look attractive through the TV dramas and reality TV shows, advertisements and movies that they show on TV, movies or newspapers and magazines. The media conveys the message that women should be slim, fashionably dressed, wears make up and must undergo plastic surgery to look beautiful and sexy (Chang & Kim 2005). With the TV shows like Americas Next top Models and Victoria Secret Fashion Show, the messages that the media producers conveys to the audiences are that women should like those on TV so as they could be like and accepted by the society. Celebrities have a very much big impact to the audience’s mindset and influence them on how they should their appearance look like. Especially the Western celebrities, they set the fashion standards to the third World countries. “The people of Korea have grown more comfortable with the idea of plastic surgery as their entertainers and even political leaders have flaunted altered features” (Cosmetic Plastic Surgery in South Korea, n.d.).
Since the boom of Korean Wave on early 1990s, South Korean artistes influence not only the citizens in South Korea but as well as in other countries. even though there are numerous good-looking Korean girls who does not need to undergo surgeries, they still want to go for cosmetic surgery as they have been influenced by the pictures of their favourite Korean pop singers and actors “who have impossibly big eyes, breasts and oddly western looking faces” (Korean actors before and after plastic surgery pictures, 2009). Foreigners flock to South Korea just as to have plastic surgery because they know the surgeons in South Korea are very much expert as they have done justice with the looks of the Korean artistes. for instance, Cate Siu is from Hong Kong who is a fan of South Korean television shows flew more than 1,000 miles to a clinic in South Korea for an operation to raise the bridge of her nose, make her eyes appear larger and sharpen her chin (Fairclough, n.d.). She was inspired to go for plastic surgery because of her favorite Korean actress who is the beautiful soap-opera star, Song Hye-Kyo, whose bee-stung lips and feminine features she admires.
According to Chung Jong Pil, a surgeon who runs the Cinderella Plastic Surgery Clinic in a fashionable Seoul neighborhood that a lot of his patients bring a picture of a Korean star from a magazine and will tell him that they want to look like the Korean actor or actress (Fairclough, n.d.). People think that Korean actresses are very pretty even though they know that they had undergone plastic surgery. Lee Yihsiu, who runs the Taipei office of International Plastic Surgery, says that “Korean pop culture has made plastic surgery fashionable” (Fairclough, n.d.).
In the movie, the director connected the starting and the ending by showing the audience when the old Seh Hee bumped to the new Seh Hee outside the plastic surgery clinic at the end of the movie. The director was trying to convey his message to the audience that in time, we will ask ourselves why did we went for plastic surgery and in the end, make our lives miserable just because we wanted to change our appearance for our loved ones.
In conclusion, the movie Time has so much effect on the audiences’ mindset regarding about plastic surgery. It will make them think on whether or not having plastic surgery will cause them positive or negative effect in their lives. As for the Koreans, this movie does not really affect them that much. It is a norm to undergo plastic surgery because it is a trend for the South Koreans to do so.
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On the drive from San Jose to Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital on Monday, Ginady Sabuco asked her twin 2-year-old daughters if they missed the closeness they used to share when they were joined at the chest.
“No!” the girls shouted back in unison from their separate car seats.
Six months after their complicated and successful surgery, Angelica and Angelina Sabuco are relishing their independence, no longer walking sideways, sleeping on top of each other or jabbing each other in the neck with their elbows when they raise a fork to their mouths.
“Now the problem their mother has is keeping track of them,” said Dr. Gary Hartman, the lead surgeon on the team that operated on the sisters — his sixth surgery separating conjoined twins. “Now, they’re running in opposite directions.”
Even photographers attending a news conference at the hospital had difficulty capturing an image of the twins together in their matching pink dresses and sparkling shoes. at one point, Angelica — the more outgoing twin — raced toward the double doors, while Angelina — the quieter one — hid next to the gift shop.
For their mother, it’s nothing but a blessing.
“My angels can now play normally like other kids,” Ginady Sabuco said.
But it had taken some time — and lots of tears — to come into their own.
After the 10-hour surgery on Nov. 1, Angelina was the first to wake up. her parents and nurses watched as she reached out her arm and stretched her leg, searching for her sister. When nurses wheeled her over to her sister’s bed, Angelina started to cry when Angelica — still sedated — didn’t respond to her touch. Nurses Candace Connell and Lisa Hilldoerfer pushed the beds together.
Night after night, “they kept crying and crying,” their mother said.
“They feel like they’re both part of the same organism. That’s what they’ve known,” Hartman said. “They feel as though they’re one person — two personalities, I can tell you — but one person.”
Those different personalities made it especially difficult for the sisters joined at the chest and abdomen, sharing their livers, diaphragms and breast bones. Before surgery, they constantly fought and grabbed over toys — and Angelica usually won, her aunt, Marites Sabuco, said. Angelica was the dominant one, even sleeping on top of her sister.
“It was hard for us,” said the aunt, who lives with Sabuco family. it was hard for them.”
Still, in the early days after the surgery, the girls seemed to miss their intimate connection. Angelina in particular sought out her aunt who sat nearby in a hospital chair.
“She needed closeness,” Hilldoerfer said. “Auntie was rolling her into her, rolling her into her chest.”
The girls, however, quickly learned the advantages of being on their own.
One of the first things the family noticed when the girls were well enough to sit up by themselves was that they could turn their backs on each other to keep their toys out of sight and out of reach from the other.
Ever since, “they’ve been nicer to each other,” Marites Sabuco said. “They get along better.”
And Angelina — the quiet one — has become more self-confident.
“She has a really outgoing personality now,” the aunt said. “She’s talking and engaging.”
The doctors involved in the surgery — Hartman, liver specialist Matias Bruzoni and plastic surgeon Peter Lorenz — say the girls have had exceptional recoveries, free from infections. except for some more plastic surgery to better curve their breast plates, no further surgeries are planned. Still, the girls will be monitored as they grow for at least another 10 years.
On Monday, the extended Sabuco family gathered at the hospital to help celebrate the girls’ recovery. the twins’ father, Fidel Sabuco, a U.S. citizen who emigrated from the Philippines years before the children were born, couldn’t attend the news conference. He took enough time off his job as a technician at a medical supply company in the weeks surrounding the surgery.
His insurance, Blue Cross, covered much of the expense of the surgery and aftercare and the Packard Foundation paid the rest, the family said. the hospital declined to release the cost of the surgery.
“We’re very thankful to the Lord,” said the girls’ uncle, Roger Agcanas. “It’s a miracle. It’s just like nothing happened to them. It’s like they had never been conjoined.”
One of the biggest issues with a tummy tuck is the length of the scar. I try to reinforce that the length of the scar is often long, but I will put it low and it will follow the underwear line. Even the thin cut underwear will usually hide the scars. Patients get better scar healing with the use of silicone strips. Rarely, a scar requires surgical revision because it is too wide. a revised scar usually heals better because it heals without tension.
Other types of lesser invasive procedures would include liposuction alone or liposuction in conjunction with a lesser excision of skin. these are usually reserved for those who do not have excess or only a minimal excess of lower abdominal skin. The upper abdominal skin is not excessive. in these situations, recovery is faster.
For all of the procedures, the full results would not be noted for at least three months. usually, there are still some changes occurring at six months. I recommend silicone strips and compression for scar therapy. I recommend weight loss afterward. Patients will usually lose 15 pounds with the procedures. Not that I remove 15 pounds but most patients use this as a spring board to lose more weight. The patients that I have seen that have had the best results will lose 15% of their body weight over a period of a year.
There are other types of body re-contouring procedures which are specifically tailored to certain types of patients. but in the general, the above are what I recommend. The patient satisfaction is quite high for these procedures because they can begin to wear clothing that is fitted around the midline and that shows their nice body contours.
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PUBLISHED: 08:25 EST, 1 may 2012 | UPDATED: 08:25 EST, 1 may 2012
Doctors have given a clean bill of health to two-year-old twins who were born attached at the chest and abdomen and who underwent separation surgery.
The two toddlers are happy and healthy six months after going through the grueling surgery six months ago at Stanford University’s hospital.
Angelina and Angelica Sabuco were the guests of honor at a coming out party Monday attended by some of the 40 doctors and nurses who cared for them during last fall’s 10-hour surgery and two-week hospital stay.
Happily apart: Recently separated conjoined twins Angelina Sabuco (left) and Angelica (right) visited the hospital where they had their surgery six months ago at Stanford University
Brave: Conjoined twins Angelica and Angelina Sabuco underwent a nine-hour procedure that is only done about a half dozen times every year
Wearing matching pink dresses and different colored hair bows, the California toddlers looked like any other pair of identical twins.
Angelina slept the entire time in her aunt’s arms, while Angelica shyly rebuffed her mother’s entreaties to sing for her well-wishers.
Plastic surgeon Peter Lorenz, who implanted custom-made plates in each sister’s chest to make up for their missing sternums, says their bodies are healing right on track and will continue to outgrow the evidence they once were conjoined.
The operation took months of planning and required the separation of livers, diaphragms, breastbones and chestand abdominal wall muscles.
Lively: Angelica, 2, played with her mom Ginady Sabuco when she visited the hospital for a party
Active: she and her sister are healing right on track and will continue to outgrow the evidence they once were conjoined
The twins’ mother, Ginady Sabuco, calledthe operation ‘a dream come true’. she added: ‘Words cannot express howthe family feels.’
The reconstruction included covering what plastic surgeon Dr. Peter Lorenz described as a ‘window’ left in their chests after separation.
Angelina and Angelica, who were born in the Philippines and live in San Jose with their parents and ten-year-old brother, have done well so far.
They love listening to stories and music, and they know their colours and can count to ten.
Andlike many children their age, they love Dora the Explorer and Elmo, andcelebrated their second birthdays with cakes adorned with Disney princesses and Tinker Bell.
Though they were seemingly healthy while conjoined, their condition placed them at serious risk for possible complications.
Conjoined: Angelica and Angelina are classified as thoraco-omphalopagus – their livers, diaphragms, breast bones, chest and abdominal wall muscles are fused
Risky: the nine-hour operation will involved cutting along the girls’ skin and muscle and separating their diaphragms and livers
Being conjoined carried risks for the girls’ physical health, especially if they share organs unequally. if one conjoined twin dies, the other would die within hours
Angelica and Angelina were classified as thoraco-omphalopagus – joined at the chest and abdomen, and they always had separate hearts, brains, kidneys, stomachs and intestines.
The occurrence of conjoined twins is estimated to range from one in 50,000 births to one in 100,000 births worldwide.
Accordingto the hospital, only about six separation surgeries are done annually in the U.S. most conjoined twins never survive pregnancy and the overallsurvival rate is approximately 25 per cent.
While the hospital would not discuss the cost of the surgery, officials told the network part of the expenseswill be paid for by the family’s medical insurance.
They will be the second set of conjoined twins separated at the hospital. the last such procedure took place in November 2007.
Thousands of patients promised elective surgery are waiting longer than the Government-ordered maximum of six months – which next year will shrink to five, then four months.
Waikato District Health Board was the worst performer nationally in the latest statistics published by the Health Ministry, which are for January. Counties Manukau DHB, an acknowledged leader in elective surgery, was the top performer.
although the goal is zero patients waiting too long, the ministry also sets slightly more lenient “thresholds”.
Waikato breached the thresholds in several departments: in excess of 4 per cent of patients who were promised surgery waited more than six months for treatment in plastic surgery (118 patients), gynaecology (89), general surgery (235) and ear, nose and throat (72). The largest non-compliance, by number and proportionally, was for a first specialist assessment in orthopaedics – 337 patients or 8.4 per cent. The threshold for these assessments is that no more than 1.5 per cent wait for over six months.
Nationally around 106,000 patients a year received elective surgery from 2001 to mid-decade, but the number has risen significantly each year since, to 145,400 in the 12 months to last June, as the Government has tried to catch up with population growth.
since 2006/7, Waikato has increased its elective surgery by 35 per cent – to 12,737 patients in 2010/11.
The DHB’s communications director, Mary Anne Gill, said yesterday that there had been a “significant improvement” in waiting times since January.
Chief operating officer Jan Adams said: “Elective discharges were just above plan for March, with plastic surgery throughput offset by lower orthopaedics and [ear, nose and throat] throughput.
“We are continuing to monitor elective discharge activity because of its critical link with the overall surgical health target.”
The Government-ordered maximum waiting time for patients promised elective surgery reduces to five months next year.
Health Minister Tony Ryall said the number of booked patients waiting longer than six months for surgery had decreased from 4600 in January 2011, to 2900 in the same month this year.
“It will be a challenge for DHBs to reduce waiting times further – but we have dedicated and innovative teams focused on achieving this.”
LONG WAITS
Number of patients awaiting treatment for more than six months:
* Waikato DHB 617* Auckland DHB 399* Waitemata DHB 300* Counties Manukau DHB 26* All DHBs 2903Source: Health Ministry data for January.
(NBC) – A growing trend in the U.S is giving new meaning to the term “keep your chin up.”
New statistics from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons finds more people are getting chin implants than ever before.
Lizette Stephens is a project manager for a software company and spends most of her day talking to executives and clients via video chat.
“I noticed that I was not happy with the profile of my face and the way it projected in video and pictures,” she says.
Her solution: A chin implant.
More than 20,000 Americans had the procedure done just last year.
Dr. Darrick Antell, a spokesperson for the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, says a strong chin not only improves patients' self esteem, it may also boost their bottom line.
“Chin augmentation has increased approximately 70 percent in the last year. That's an astonishing number,” said Antell. “Ninety percent of CEOs had chins that were larger than normal or normal. That's much higher than the general population.”
Chin augmentation is an outpatient procedure done under local anesthesia.
Most patients return to work after three days and see the full results after three months.
Both men and women are having it done.
Lizette had the procedure six months ago and says there is one thing she would change.
“I would have gotten it done sooner,” she laughed. “That's the one thing I would have done differently.”
The procedure costs between $3,500 and $7,500.
Other cosmetic procedures that were popular last year include breast augmentation, nose reshaping, liposuction, eyelid surgery and facelifts.
TAMPA, Fla. — a Tampa woman claims a fake plastic surgeon ruined her life after injecting her buttocks with fix-a-flat and cement. Patients of Oneal Ron Morris, known to them as “Goddess”, claim the woman said she worked for a plastic surgeon and knew how to perform procedures like butt injections. “She had a white coat on and a little badge, so I felt comfortable with it,” the woman said. The woman, who doesn’t want to be identified, lost her job as a mortgage broker when the market crashed and started dancing at strip clubs to make quick cash. She soon learned a bigger backside would boost her business, but when she went to see a doctor, he quoted her $5,000 for the procedure. Morris, she says, would do it for just $1,500 at her apartment. “She said it was 100% silicone,” the woman said of the substance Morris kept in a Pedialyte bottle. Immediately after the injections she and four others underwent in 2009, the woman says she was pleased. She raked in thousands of dollars more at work, and liked the way her backside looked. But within six months, she started coughing. That turned into pneumonia. When doctors tested fluid in her buttocks, she says she learned the “100% silicone” was 100% something else. “It came back as bathroom caulking,” she said. “You would put a substance in me to kill me? It’s not fair to me.” She claims Morris, now facing several more charges of practicing medicine without a license, used super glue on her during the procedure. “It’s to block the holes so the medicine doesn’t come back out,” she remembered Morris explain. “I said, ‘Why is it burning like that?’ She said, ‘That’s just the medicine. That’s how the medicine feels. It’s normal.’” in addition to pneumonia, she had discoloration of the skin and a rear-end she describes as “rock hard”. When she went to see Morris for help, the woman claims Morris told her to use skin lightener and to buy a massager for her buttocks. Unable to work, or barely sit anymore, she relies on food stamps, her house facing foreclosure. She still has the fix-a-flat injection in her because, she says, her case never reached a severe enough level for insurance to consider it anything but elective reconstructive surgery. “I feel like she tried to kill me,” she said. “Why would you try to do that to somebody after I gave you all that money?” Morris’ lawyer recently told several media outlets that she maintains her innocence and did nothing wrong. “If I see her, I don’t think it’s going to be good,” the woman said of Morris. “I wish I had never gone.”
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