Lebanon competing with Brazil?
According to the article below, Lebanon is now competing with Brazil for plastic surgey tourists.
Link to article.
The person featured had a nose job and facelift for $5000 US.
Looking at Lebanese women on the streets these days, you would be forgiven for thinking they were clones. Why? Because cosmetic surgery has become common and is a booming business in the country.
In the past few years Lebanon has earned a reputation as a place for Arab tourists as well as Lebanese expatriates and locals to come to for plastic surgery. The cosmetic enhancements vary from nose jobs to facelifts to body sculpting.
“During the war there were mainly six or seven plastic surgeons in Lebanon, nowadays you can find more than 100 surgeons with well established names,” plastic surgeon Elie Chamas told Deutsche Presse- Agentur (dpa).
“We are now competing with the famous Brazilian plastic surgeons,” he said.
While I doubt AMericans will travel to Lebanon for surgery, it is pretty interesting to see that this is a world trend.

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