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Fake dimples: A harmless trend, or recipe for permanent facial damage?

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As ‘fake dimple’ clips flood TikTok, Facebook and Instagram feeds, medical professional Professor Chrysis Sofianos is warning South Africans not to mistake cosmetic procedures for harmless social media beauty hacks. What many online videos present as a quick enhancement may, in reality, be a medical procedure that can carry serious physical, emotional and financial consequences […]

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‘Two-for-one’ C-section and tummy tuck idea alarms surgeons

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The ‘mommy makeover’ is trending, and a growing number of patients are now asking whether cosmetic procedures such as a tummy tuck, liposuction or breast augmentation can be performed at the same time as a Caesarean section. But surgeons warn that combining elective cosmetic surgery with a C-section can sharply escalate risk during an already

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The world’s new favourite surgery – and South Africans are catching on

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When gymnastics icon Simone Biles casually revealed on TikTok, and later confirmed in interviews, that she’d had eyelid surgery to fix what she jokingly called the “Biles eye bags”, it sparked widespread conversations online. Overnight, a procedure most people couldn’t pronounce, blepharoplasty, was being Googled and discussed around the world. The renewed attention comes at

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