Surgery in the afternoon, dinner in the evening, doctor claims

24/09/2007

It is now possible for women to have breast augmentation surgery in just 30 minutes, according to one plastic surgeon.

Texas-based surgeon John Tebbetts is to address the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (Baaps).

He claims that patients no longer need to assume that they will need extended recovery time and absence from work or routine activities.

Mr Tebbetts told the Telegraph that breast augmentation now "only takes between 30 and 40 minutes".

Furthermore it is carried out with precision equipment and does not require the use of heavy anaesthetic.

"Between 80 and 85 per cent of our patients go out on the evening of their surgery," he says.

And he claims that many are back to performing routine activities on the day following the procedure.

Earlier today, cosmetic surgeon Patrick Mallucci announced the formula or the perfect breast.

He claims that research proves the ideal breast has "a 45 to 55 per cent proportion - that is the nipple sits not at the half-way mark down the breast, but at about 45 per cent from the top".

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