TEXTURED BREAST IMPLANT RECALL – WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
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Two little words no woman ever wants to hear in the same sentence are: breast implants and cancer.
After several years of news stories and debate, BIOCELL textured breast implants and tissue expanders made by Allergan under the Natrelle brand were voluntarily recalled. Regrettably, these specific implants have been linked to a rare type of lymphoma known as BIA-ALCL or breast implant associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma. To date, 573 cases have been reported and 481 of these cases were linked to Allergan Biocell implants, according to the FDA.
Sadly, there were 33 deaths among these cases. The FDA also explains that textured breast implants are less common in the U.S. compared
THE TRUTH ABOUT PRP INJECTIONS – HOW TO STAY SAFE
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Imagine this. You book yourself in for a “Vampire Facial” treatment a la KKW and you end up with HIV? It sounds like a science experiment gone wrong, but this actually happened.
Tragically, two customers of the VIP Spa in Albuquerque, NM, were found to be infected with HIV after having PRP injections. This precipitated the New Mexico Department of Health to offer free HIV and Hepatitis B and C screenings to anyone who was injected there for a specified period before the spa was ultimately shut down after a health inspection found that unsafe practices may have spread blood-borne infections, like HIV.
This may leave you wondering how this could happen in 2019.
Here’s how, accordin
BRAZILIAN BUTT LIFTS UNDER SCRUTINY
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Although J-Lo, Pippa, and KKW have been credited with making big butts a thing, it was actually the Brazilians who cornered this rising aesthetic trend a few decades ago.
The popular Brazilian butt lift or BBL, as it is more commonly known, comes with some risks, especially if you aren’t careful about the doctor you choose. According to the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (ASAPS), the BBL procedure has been shown to have the highest rate of complication and even death in extreme cases. In fact, as many as 1 in 3,000 people who undergo the procedure die, or 0.033 percent, compared with 0.002 percent for all office-based cosmetic procedures, according to a 2016 s
MEET DR. NIKI CHRISTOPOULOS: CHICAGO’S DOUBLE BOARD-CERTIFIED PLASTIC SURGEON
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A native of Chicago, double board-certified plastic surgeon Dr. Niki Christopoulos attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she graduated with honors as a James Scholar with a Bachelor of Arts in Biology. She received her doctorate from the Chicago Medical School of Rosalind Franklin University and went on to complete an intensive seven year General and Plastic Surgery Training at Rush University Medical Center where she served as Chief surgical resident during her last year.
Named one of America’s Top Plastic Surgeons by the Consumers’ Research Council of America, Dr. Christopoulos is trained in all aspects of plastic surgery. Her expertise and specialt
