| Top surgeons offer budget breast ops
SOME of Britain's leading plastic surgeons are to enter the booming mass market in cosmetic surgery by slashing the cost of breast enlargement by almost £3,000. They are launching an internet company, mybreast.org, which aims to make the best quality breast surgery available to less affluent women. The doctors claim their venture is not simply commercial, but will benefit clients who might otherwise be tempted by cut-price deals with under-qualified surgeons in Britain or abroad. But the move has been criticised for encouraging vulnerable women to have expensive operations for non-medical reasons. The surgeons have cut charges from £7,000 to £4,250 by concentrating solely on breast augmentation, the most popular cosmetic procedure, which is undertaken by 26,000 British women a year.
Silicone approval a huge blow for saline
The factory looks like an especially clean industrial kitchen. Workers are covered from head to toe in surgical scrubs. Stacked on stainless steel rolling trays are mounds of various sizes and shapes, all resembling risen pizza dough. Mentor Corp has its global manufacturing operations at this 13 050m2 factory that is home to the US's only breast implant manufacturing facility. The recent Federal Drug Administration approval of silicone-gel implants - ending a 14-year virtual ban - has far-reaching ramifications here. This the starting point for nearly a quarter of a million breast augmentation surgeries a year. The daily grind of making implants might not change much, but what workers are doing here will affect hundreds of thousands of women a year. Factory workers, machines and robots produce about 2 100 saline implants a day in a process that Mentor protects as if it were nuclear missile launch codes.
Woman poisons husband to "set herself free"
A woman poisoned her Marine husband with arsenic so she could spend his life insurance policy on high living and plastic surgery, a jury ruled today. Cynthia Sommer, 33, murdered 23-year-old Todd Sommer because she wanted to "set herself free" from the constraints of his military salary and enjoy a more luxurious life. During the trial in San Diego, California, friends and work colleagues of the mother-of-four testified that she threw wild parties, paid $5,400 dollars to have her breasts enlarged and indulged in casual sex with multiple partners in the weeks following her husband's collapse. .
The secret's out now, Kate
She was spotted at a fashion show wearing tan control pants under her peppermint gown the sort women rely on to hide unwanted bumps. I admire her for not having a tummy tuck like so many other celebrities. And who would have thought she gave birth to baby SURI just nine months ago? Mrs Cruise was a guest at the Armani catwalk show in Paris on Wednesday. During her trip there for fashion week she has been hanging out with super-skinny pal VICTORIA BECKHAM. You have to sympathise with Katie however slim you are, standing next to pencil-thin Posh is always going to make you feel a bit porky. Lets hope Katie keeps looking trim the natural, Bridget Jones way. She looks sensational, if you ask me.
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