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Podcast: Plastic Surgery Uncensored
Episode: Brazilian Butt Lifts Are Risky Business 💉 🍑🙅♀️
Description: In the last five years, there have been 19 deaths in South Florida due to the cosmetic procedure Brazilian Butt Lift, also known as BBL, and eight alone were in 2021, more than any other year. So, what is the reason women are dying while getting this procedure? In 2019 there was a global mandate that doctors could no longer inject fat directly into the muscle area because of the high risk of death. This year, Florida‘s Board of Medicine put emergency regulations in place to combat the problem in their state. Yet the number of deaths in Florida attributed to this pr...