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...Previously, reconstructive surgery would have required the surgeon to harvest bone for transplantation from elsewhere in the body....
...Dr Andrew Bamji, Gillies archivist to the British Association of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons and a signatory to the petition, said the museum was not only “a place to go and look at things...
...As often at the National Portrait Gallery, this show struggles between two imperatives: documentary and aesthetic....
...“It is easy to understand why [poor people] would need reconstructive surgery, but difficult to understand that aesthetic surgery is not a luxury,” he says....
...“I know we will see a fall-out here even though this is a pretty affluent community,” says Dr Boxrud, who specialises in facial and ophthalmic aesthetic and reconstructive surgery inHollywood....
...Most of that is for purely “aesthetic” procedures commonly carried out on noses, lips and breasts. Between 25 and 30 per cent of clients are thought to come from abroad....
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