Andrew Lee, director of the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Johns Hopkins.

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At People's Ninth Hospital in Shanghai, a public hospital that is the city's busiest for cosmetic surgery, there were 50, 000 cosmetic operations in 2011, a 50% increase in five years, according to Qi Zuoliang, deputy director of the plastic-surgery department.

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