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| Brazilian beauty |
Brazil is known for its Rio Carnival, beautiful tanned women and warm climate. However, Brazil
also enjoys booming cosmetic surgery business for rich and poor alike. In fact, barely clad, samba dancers in Rio
Carnival are often a display of surgically enhanced breasts and buttons and
such results are not by accident.
Brazils
is considered a pioneer in plastic surgery and a destination of choice for
cosmetic surgery tourism. In fact, Brazil
performs over 11 million cosmetic surgery operations a year, second only to the
Untied States.
Brazil’s
cosmetic surgery industry was pioneered by plastic surgeon, Ivo Pitanguy, now
85. He also pioneered the idea of providing cosmetic and reconstructive surgery
to the poor for free.
Cosmetic surgery seems to be a normally accepted practice in Brazil and they
believe cosmetic surgery is about more than just beauty. It is about psychological improvement by
raising self esteem of a person. Brazilians believe that beauty is a right and
everybody deserves to enjoy it.
Hundreds of clinics offer free or low cost cosmetic surgery
to the poor. Once selected, one may have to wait months or years but they may
get the desired service whatever that may be: breast and buttock implants, liposuction,
facelifts, hair removal and procedures to flatten prominent ears.
The hospitals offering free cosmetic surgeries feel that such
programs are beneficial to the hospitals as well. These procedures give young
doctors opportunity to perfect their cosmetic surgery skills which have made
them some of the bests in the world.
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Reference
http://www.sbme.org.br/portal/
(Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Estética)
