Black-market buttock enhancement cosmetic surgeries hospitalize six women

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Black-market cosmetic surgeries hospitalize six N.J. women

NEWARK -- Six women from the Essex County area who wanted fuller bottoms ended up in hospitals after receiving buttocks-enhancement injections containing the same material contractors use to caulk bathtubs, officials said.

Different from medical-grade silicone, the substance used in the botched procedures was believed to be a diluted version of nonmedical-grade silicone.

"The same stuff you use to put caulk around the bathtub," said Steven M. Marcus, executive and medical director of the New Jersey Poison Information and Education System, who learned about the bizarre procedures through a committee he sits on that monitors outbreaks in the metropolitan area.

Using over-the-counter silicone can cause abscesses that he said resemble "a big zit."

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/03/black-market_cosmetic_surgerie.html

[Last_Stand]

1. Did it all work out in the end?

[Mari333]

2. knr just for the title of this thread

[DesertFlower]

3. this is insane. as someone

who has had plastic surgery, you do your homework. check out the doctor and his credentials.

[Xipe Totec]

4. Rock bottom quality

[notadmblnd]

5. and to think, they could have just had some of my butt fat

I wouldn't even sell it, I'd just give it away.

[Blue Owl]

6. a cheeky leak

or leaky cheek, depending which side of the pond you're on...

[foxfeet]

7. But did it stop the leaking?

[Echo In Light]

8. Black market bummer

[Binka]

9. New Product: Stridex Ass Pads n/t

[gratuitous]

10. Ho, ho, ho

Poor people buying into the attractiveness message blasted at them 24/7 by the dominant culture, and they wind up poisoned! Wotta laff riot. And checking the comments that follow the story, I can see that ridicule for the victims is the proper response.

[Lance_Boyle]

11. The 'victims' sought out BLACK MARKET cosmetic surgery

They should well be ridiculed.

[gratuitous]

12. Exactly

After all, if they couldn't afford some high-rent tony surgeon on the Upper West Side or in Beverly Hills, what right did they have to try to change anything? They deserve to be poisoned, because glamour isn't for the likes of them.

[Echo In Light]

13. How is a larger ass equated with "glamour?"

[KittyWampus]

24. Maybe the word is "desirabilitiy". You know, Baby's Got Back?

YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkJdEFf_Qg4

[Quantess]

32. That is the funniest, most absurd thing I've seen for a while!

[Last_Stand]

14. Deleted....I don't really care about any of this...lol

[gatorboy]

16. Can you excercise more junk into your trunk?

[TheWraith]

21. Of course. Do squats.

The result will also be leaner and firmer than it would be otherwise.

[TheWraith]

15. So you complain about the "attractiveness message" of "the dominant culture"

Then endorse that the solution is anyone and everyone having plastic surgery? Sounds like someone is just in a contrarian mood today.

[Lance_Boyle]

17. Really? C'mon now - these people made a BLATANTLY STUPID choice

for a BLATANTLY STUPID reason (vanity) and got themselves poisoned. They are deserving of ridicule.

[Quantess]

18. Aren't there specific exercises that target a round, firm butt?

Those don't cost very much, if anything. Just sweat.

I agree, there are rich women who get the surgery done properly, but still...surgery is an extreme step. I would not ridicule these women, but I can't help but question their judgment.

[KittyWampus]

20. Sorry, here's a bit more on the procedure. I am not going to laugh though. It's not my thing- botox

and cosmetic surgery, but it's so wide spread now.

"A plastic surgeon doing buttocks augmentation would make an incision to develop a pocket underneath the muscle and shape the buttocks with inert medical-grade silicone, Borah said. He noted it is a relatively uncommon procedure in most practices and that he has done only two in his 24-year career.
By the time he tells patients of the potential risks — from anesthesia, scarring and silicone shifting when patients sit down — they often change their minds.
Breast and cheek augmentations are the most common procedures, he noted. Borah said buttock augmentation is more popular in some cultures than others."

[Quantess]

26. The responsible medical doctor warns patients of the risks and annoying side effects.

The quack encourages women to fork over money, with no regard to their symptoms after the botched procedure.

That makes it even more heinous, IMHO. I wonder if the women's posteriors will ever be normal again?

[KittyWampus]

22. would you ridicule someone who bought dirty heroin? Imperfect analogy, I know.

still, I don't have it in me to laugh at this.

[Lance_Boyle]

25. This is more like someone opting for bathtub gin over Beefeater.

They know the Beefeater is good, and available at the nearest liquor store. But they opt to grab an empty Mountain Dew bottle topped off with Sketchy Jim's Bathtub Gin instead, presumably because it's cheaper. Who knows? But to answer your question, yes - I would ridicule them. Guess I'm just kinda mean like that.

[Echo In Light]

28. It's the nature of the subject that lends itself to semantic-gags..which doesn't reflect how...

... any one of those posters, myself included, actually respond to those who are hurt or in need.

Sometimes it helps to bear in mind that this is just a message board, and not every wise-crack denotes a monstrous lack of empathy/sympathy

[KittyWampus]

31. very true, there's a thread now about autistic puppies/pet vaccinations. That has potential.

[Withywindle]

19. You know what's really insulting and demeaning to women?

The notion that we have no freedom of choice in these matters because our poor widdle spongelike minds are so brainwashed by the patriarchy. Why, to us, it's just the same as if someone held a GUN to our heads and FORCED us to get our butts shot up with bathtub caulk.

Patronizing and condescending.

[Supersedeas]

23. the vanity of some people is really something to behold

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

27. They busted a transvestite around here a few years ago for that

This gentleman was providing boob jobs with a caulking gun, I think one of the women died from an infection and another ended up with no breasts for his efforts. The mugshot was epic since he had about three days worth of beard in it.

[guitar man]

29. Damn

Next time try KFC! :rofl:

[Cali_Democrat]

30. They put caulk in their bottoms?

That ain't right :evilgrin: