The quest to obtain the perfect silhouette has now crossed cultural and territorial borders. One of the fastest-growing trends in medicine is medical tourism and a huge factor behind that growth is the popularity of cosmetic surgery vacations. That’s right: people are traversing oceans and overcoming language barriers to get the best deal on facelifts, breast augmentation and other popular cosmetic surgeries. For some, this may seem like the best of both worlds; a new and improved body through inexpensive plastic surgery and recuperation in an exotic locale. For others, this can be the beginning of a nightmare, as evidenced…
In Spring of 2012, the silicone breast implant turned 50 years old. It may be hard to believe, but the traditional breast implants that we know today have been around for five whole decades; the practice—or the attempted practice—of surgically…