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There have been plenty of cases of plastic surgery gone wrong making headlines lately. In fact, you may have heard the incredibly sad news about the 34-year-old woman who died last week after allegedly receiving butt injections of liquid silicone in a basement in Queens, New York.
We hope you’re quite clear on the fact that you should never, ever, under any circumstances put yourself and your health in that kind of situation. That said, if you are considering plastic surgery, whether for health or cosmetic reasons, it’s not just sketchy basements that you need to be wary of.
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First off, make sure your plastic surgeon is certified—and this is important—by the American Board of Plastic Surgery. “We’ve heard of ob-gyn doctors doing tummy tucks or breast augmentations; we’ve heard of ER doctors doing liposuctions,” says Raffi Hovsepian, M.D., an assistant clinical professor in the division of plastic and reconstructive surgery at the University of California-Irvine School of Medicine and co-director of the Newport Beach Aesthetic Surgery Fellow and Resident Training Program at the Aesthetic & Plastic Surgery Institute. “Yes, they’re physicians, but they haven’t had the long-term training as a plastic surgeon specific for those needs or those techniques or procedures.”
You’ll also want to find a physician who specializes in the area of plastic surgery you want, who can show you before-and-after photos that look like you, and who has positive reviews on Yelp and RealSelf, says Lisa Cassileth, M.D., clinical chief of the division of plastic surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and an assistant clinical professor at UCLA.
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When you go in for your appointment, make sure you are incredibly clear with your surgeon about what you want and that he or she is sparklingly clear with you about what will go down during surgery. The doctor shouldn’t be determining everything that’s right for you, says Cassileth, and “when you meet that person, you should not proceed unless you feel comfortable with them.”
Want further proof of the risks you could run if you either don’t go to a certified plastic surgeon or aren’t careful about what you ask for? Check out these 13 examples of plastic surgery gone wrong:
1. Farrah Abraham of MTV’s Teen Mom, who received erroneous lip injections this past January:
Girlfriends don’t say I didn’t warn ya ! #BOTCHED California #ER #fixit pic.twitter.com/iN2i5QzABr
— Farrah Abraham (@F1abraham) January 6, 2015
2. This woman, who could literally flip her botched butt implants around while they were inside of her:
3. This man, who was left without a nose after horrifying plastic surgery:
4. This woman, who received a terrifying tummy tuck during which a block of ice served as her anesthetic and left her pubic skin way too high:
5. This woman, who had a concrete-like substance injected into her body and face:
6. This woman, who was given breast implants in her booty:
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And all of these hmm-something-looks-off breast augmentations (which Cassileth and Hovsepian later fixed):
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Lisa Cassileth / Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
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Lisa Cassileth / Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
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Raffi Hovsepian / University of California, Irvine School of Medicine
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Raffi Hovsepian / University of California, Irvine School of Medicine
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Raffi Hovsepian / University of California, Irvine School of Medicine
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Raffi Hovsepian / University of California, Irvine School of Medicine
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Raffi Hovsepian / University of California, Irvine School of Medicine
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