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Podcast: This Matters
Episode: Thinking about a "lunch-break facelift?" It comes with risks you might not know
Description: Guests: Sheila Wang and Morgan Sevareid-Bocknek, investigative reporters They're called âlunch hour facelifts,â cosmetic touch-ups without the surgery. But if you are rethinking your lunch plans, you might want to think again. A recent Star investigation found a lot of these procedures are not as advertised. Across Canada, spas and medical clinics are offering the popular medical procedure marketed as a safe, minimally invasive treatment. But as service providers compete for customers on TikTok and Instagram, showing supposedly incredible results, some of them are making misleading claims about the quality and effectiveness of the threads they use on patien...