All Posts Tagged With: "Cosmetic Surgery News"

Jennifer Aniston is rumoured to have had a ‘boob jab’ to help increase the size of her breasts.

According to some rumours, Aniston has had Macrolane injections which has boosted her bra size by a whole cup size.

Macrolane injections take around half an hour to complete therefore can be done in a lunch break. A local anaesthetic is applied before a thick needle is inserted deep into the breast tissue and the Macrolane filler injected. The filler itself contains hyaluronic acid (also commonly found in dermal fillers) and is a thick, dense fluid.

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For patients who have tried everything to lose weight, including having gastric surgery (such as a bypass or gastric band), a new experimental surgery may help them lose weight.

Over the last few years, there has been a rise in the use of gastric surgery to help people lose weight. Liposuction is also a popular way to lose weight quickly. However both these options sometimes fail to address underlying issues and as many as a fifth of people may put the weight back on.

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A new type of cosmetic surgery allows patients to permanently change the colour of their eyes. Previously, people looking to change their eye colour typically turned to coloured contact lenses. However NewColorIris is a new intraocular implant that can change the colour of the eyes.

NewColorIris isn’t just for those who want to change their appearance – this implant can also be used to improve the ocular appearance of patients with partial coloboma (congenital defects of the iris), traumatic irides, ocular albinism and iris heterochromia.

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Reality TV star Heidi Montag has admitted that she would consider more cosmetic surgery. Montag, 22, has already had several different cosmetic surgery operations including a rhinoplasty (nose job) and breast augmentation.

Talking to Playboy magazine Montag revealed that she had used the magazine as research. “When I was shopping for my boobs, I wanted the best so I sat down and flipped through a bunch of Playboys,” she explained.

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Caprice, former model and businesswoman, has said that she would be prepared to have cosmetic surgery.

The 37-year old has admitted that the constant media scrutiny and sometimes very public unkind comments leave her feeling pressured about her looks.

“Of course I would consider [cosmetic surgery] – especially in the entertainment world.” she commented in an interview with celebrity magazine Now.

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Cosmetic surgery can have unexpected consequences, particularly for medical tourists.

According to AFP, a group of 23 Chinese medical tourists travelled to South Korea to have cosmetic surgery on their faces. The surgery involved giving the group bigger eyes, slimmer chins and higher noses.

The women, who were aged between 36 and 54, looked so different to their passport photos that Airport Officers were unsure as to whether they really were the women they claimed to be.

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For patients looking for a rhinoplasty (nose job) but who don’t want to go under the knife, a new non-surgical nose-job may be the answer.

An anaesthetic cream is used on the nose. Injections of cosmetic filler are then injected around the nose to change it’s shape. The whole process takes around 10 minutes and can therefore be carried out during a lunch hour.

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