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Beauty and Madness

There is madness in beauty because some women would chase it, no matter what the price.

In Buenos Aires, Argentina, 38-year-old Solange Magnano died from complications arising out of her buttocks plastic surgery.

Magnano, who held the title of Miss Argentina in 1994 and a mother of 7-year old twins, died of pulmonary embolism three days after her botched surgery. According to reports, while undergoing gluteoplasty, liquid from an injection allegedly reached her lungs and brain.

Magnano is one of the millions of women who go under the knife just to look and feel younger and more beautiful.

In United States alone, the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery has reported that there were over 10 million surgical and nonsurgical cosmetic procedures in 2008. Women made up 92% of the total, with 9.3 million of them undergoing cosmetic procedures.

The top cosmetic procedures among women are:

  • breast augmentation (355,671 procedures)
  • liposuction (341,144procedures)
  • eyelid surgery (195,104 procedures)
  • rhinoplasty (152,434 procedures)
  • abdominoplasty (147,392 procedures)

Plastic surgery is such a lucrative business that despite the economic downturn, it still continues to bloom. It also attracts practitioners who are not qualified to perform cosmetic procedure thus are not very aware of the hidden dangers in performing cosmetic surgery on women with heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes or even those on the pill which often increases the risk of complications.

At the hands of a charlatan or a lesser qualified doctor, the quest for beauty can only end in tragedy as some cosmetic procedures can not only be physically damaging but also life-threatening.

A medical malpractice suit may be filed by victims of cosmetic surgery errors.

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