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Plastic surgery that looks more natural than plastic

After you have spent a good chunk of your money to get a cosmetic procedure like a breast lift or buttocks lift done, the last thing you want is gravity undoing the great work after a few years. Neither do you want to look like a blow-up doll. You want subtlety. At least that’s what a good surgeon will give you for your money.

And this is where the stem cells come in. Everyone has stem cells, and they are more popularly used in the medical world for treatment of blood cancers. In fact, WHO reports that more than 50,000 stem cell transplants are done annually worldwide for that purpose. But stem cells are now being used in the field of plastic surgery in Kenya. Research has enabled extensive use of stem cells in reconstructive and cosmetic surgery compared to other fields in medicine.

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