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All three women had heard of the facility directly or indirectly through Internet chat rooms.
"Information that comes to you by the Internet is not always gospel," said Dr. James Wells, a spokesman and past-president for the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. "This is a story we see all the time. A patient brings an article from the Internet thinking it must be true."
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Wells said the only approved fillers for derriere augmentation are a patient's own fat cells, harvested and then re-injected, or hard silicone forms specifically devised for enhancement.
"There's a history of getting liquid injections done by hair dressers in local hotel rooms. Those are horror stories and this sounds like the same situation," Wells said. "This is not a minor, causal procedure. Start out by selecting a board-certified physician in a facility that is an operating room, not a strip mall. Make sure you're seen by the physician, not someone in an office whose training you have no understanding of."
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Visit the American Society of Plastic Surgeons for more on different types of cosmetic procedures.
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