Korean Woman's Case Shocked the Globe but U.S. Doctors Report Horrors in Bad Economy
Hang Mioku's last act in her 20-year addiction to plastic surgery made her infamous: She picked up a syringe, filled it with cooking oil and injected into her own face.
Mioku's extreme act and the resulting disfigurement made international headlines. She told the Korean media that she turned to cooking oil because she had run out of the silicone a doctor had given her to perform injections at home.
Doctors already frown upon silicone injections as a hazardous, ineffective practice; when the... Full Story
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