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Maurizio Viel cheerfully admits that he has had a nose job and gets regular botox injections to erase the wrinkles from his tanned face. But then Viel, 41, and his twin brother Roberto are plastic surgeons who operate the London Centre for Aesthetic Surgery. And while Maurizio is a walking advertisement for the benefits of modern cosmetic surgery, their clinic needs no promoting. Business, they say, has doubled since...
...clinics in Norway, Italy and Ireland. Corporación Dermoestetica, a Spanish group with 32 centers in Spain, this year will open clinics in Lisbon and Porto, Portugal. "There is no doubt that cosmetic surgery is growing in popularity," says Giulio Injianni, secretary of the German Association of Plastic Surgeons. "People are more confident about this kind of medicine because of media exposure." He says his own patient load has doubled in the past five years...
...plastic surgeons are cheering the trend: some feel too many non-specialists are getting involved and also have doubts about the efficacy of some fad treatments. "A lot of these non-invasive techniques become fashionable, but it's a slightly dodgy market," says David Sharpe, a surgeon in Bradford, England. Some fills, he notes, can cause lumps, and lasers can scar if misused...
...Star Wars, designers created a Death Star that looked embarrassingly more realistic than the 1977 movie model. "I thought, 'My God, I hope Lucasfilm doesn't get mad at us,'" says director Brett Tosti. To save George Lucas' blushes, the virtual version has been fixed to look as plastic as the original...
...needs 'em with carne asada around b) Vicente Fox prefers the ol' plastic vomit on the chair c) Toxins in them are making kids sick...