These approaches are also used for breast augmentation and other cosmetic procedures, he added.
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In contrast, her breast augmentation surgery was found to be merely cosmetic and therefore, not deductible.
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Breast augmentation was again the most common procedure in the UK with 9, 843 going under the knife.
One breast augmentation patient stormed out of the office and never returned after being told I was running late.
She went to one surgeon for a tummy tuck to pull in the loose skin and another for breast augmentation.
Breast augmentation was the most frequent cosmetic surgical procedure in 2012, according to the aesthetic plastic surgery society's new statistics.
She criticised a lack of information about breast augmentation, saing many women were unaware that implants have to be replaced every 10-15 years.
Ninety-five per cent of the implants were fitted by private clinics, the vast majority of these procedures will have been for breast augmentation.
Allergan also sells implants used in breast augmentation and weight-loss surgery.
But this cancer is so exceedingly rare it seems unclear that this would sway any woman considering undergoing breast augmentation or reconstruction one way or the other.
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Despite negative publicity, the breast augmentation business is again thriving.
Since there is no third party involved in this realm of healthcare (because it is considered elective), no politician speaks of a drain by breast augmentation surgery on the economy.
The typical breast-augmentation patient is in her "mid-to-late 30s who has had one or more children, " says Leo R.
The number of breast-augmentation surgeries increased 306% between 1992 and 1998.
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