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 study
MEET CHRISTOPHER KHORSANDI, MD: LAS VEGAS PLASTIC SURGEON
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Everyone who sets foot on the Las Vegas strip tends to see themselves as a Very Imporant Person (VIP), but as many a weekend gambler or tourist soon learns, all that glitters isn’t gold. That said, there are still places in Vegas where VIP actually means something — including VIP Plastic Surgery. Christopher Khorsandi, MD is the chief plastic surgeon at VIP Plastic Surgery in Las Vegas and Los Angeles. He is board certified in plastic surgery, and trained in minimally invasive hand surgery and migraine relief surgery. “No matter if you just walked off the runway, run a family, or are running between jobs, we want our patients to feel like VIPs,” he tells Beauty on the Bag. Dr Khorsand
DR. AARON ROLLINS – MEDICAL DIRECTOR, SONO BELLO, BEVERLY HILLS
Meet a Beverly Hills Body Contouring Expert
California Medical Director for Sono Bello Body Contouring Centers of Beverly Hills, Dr. Aaron Rollins has performed more than 2,000 liposuction procedures. He is a life-long art lover, and in fact studied sculpture in the evenings while attending medical school at McGill University Faculty of Medicine, Montreal, Canada. To fulfill his dream of combining art and science, he went on to complete general surgery residencies at University of Miami, Miami, Florida, and University of California, San Francisco, California.
“I was lucky enough to find the perfect combination of surgery and sculpture – liposuction, a.k.a. ‘liposculpture,’
