Beware the budget butt lift, regulators warn amid social media-inspired boom
Houston plastic surgeon Dr. Bob Basu featured in an article on CNN Health
Sat February 25, 2023
In hindsight, Nikki Ruston said, she should have recognized the red flags.
The office in Miami where she scheduled what’s known as a Brazilian butt lift had closed and transferred her records to a different facility, she said. The price she was quoted – and paid upfront – increased the day of the procedure, and she said she did not meet her surgeon until she was about to be placed under general anesthesia.
“I was ready to walk out,” said Ruston, 44, of Lake Alfred in Central Florida. “But I had paid everything.”
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