{"id":1301,"date":"2011-04-15T08:55:01","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T08:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/?p=1301"},"modified":"2011-04-15T08:55:01","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T08:55:01","slug":"warning-about-quack-cosmetic-surgery-9306","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/warning-about-quack-cosmetic-surgery-9306\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning About Quack Cosmetic Surgery-9306"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 12.0px Arial} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial} span.s1 {letter-spacing: 0.0px} -->Plastic surgeons in the United States have issued a warning about so called medical practitioners who have had minimal training in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/cosmetic-surgery\/index.htm\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"cosmetic surgery\">cosmetic surgery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, according the group of Virginian surgeons, quackery is a growing trend, with many of these unqualified people performing operations in their offices. It is alleged that patients are seeking surgery on the cheap, which is spawning this growth.<\/p>\n<p>The Virginian doctors raised the matter with their local medical board. However the latter refused their recommendations, and asked the surgeons for evidence before accepting the need for further regulation.<\/p>\n<p>This has disappointed the doctors. One cosmetic surgeon, Victoria Vastin told reporters: \u201cWe are not asking you to regulate the minor procedures. We`re asking you to look at the high-risk procedures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, plastic surgery is growing in popularity in a number of countries not generally known to have it, let alone approve it. One of these nations is Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Many Pakistani women are spurning the spa for Botox and other therapies in order to enhance a youthful appearance. In fact the range on offer is growing including Botox, face lifts, laser therapy and nose jobs.<\/p>\n<p>While it could be argued that Western ideals are transplanting Asian or Islamic ideals held by the older generation, younger people are more accepting. Further, women from all different socio-economic backgrounds are taking the plunge.<\/p>\n<p>Self esteem is now as important as beauty.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plastic surgeons in the United States have issued a warning about so called medical practitioners who have had minimal training in cosmetic surgery. Unfortunately, according the group of Virginian surgeons, quackery is a growing trend, with many of these unqualified people performing operations in their offices. It is alleged that patients are seeking surgery on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":888008809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[73,24,850,328,362],"class_list":["post-1301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmetic-surgery","tag-cosmetic-surgeons","tag-cosmetic-surgery-2","tag-quackery","tag-quality-of-cosmetic-treatment","tag-training"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/888008809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medic8.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}