The biopolymer fillers, seen as a cheaper and less invasive alternative to fat grafting, are injected and expand inside the body.
Maria Sanchez rests face down on a sofa as she is unable to sit down properly after her second biopolymer extraction operation.
Sanchez now has a scar running across her lower back as a painful reminder of the reconstruction surgery in which doctors managed to extract 90% of the filler. Growing numbers of people suffering chronic pain are seeking to have biopolymer removed from their bodies. An acquaintance, a public hospital employee, referred her to plastic surgeon Juan Carlos Blanco, who has treated some 50 cases in the last five years, of which 20 ended in surgery, including Sanchez’s.When he cauterises them “they explode and what comes out is oil.”
Sanchez says her “bad decision” to get the fillers was about conforming to a stereotype, “for not feeling somehow all right about my silhouette.”She was unable to sit down for 20 days after her reconstruction surgery. Susana, who asked that her real name not be used because of the stigma attached to those who have opted for these treatments, lives in a shantytown in the hills of Caracas.“I can’t walk very far,” she says. “I have to put my feet in hot water.”
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