In a classic case of “What were you thinking?,” six New Jersey women who really wanted rounder rumps were rushed to the emergency room after they received dangerous buttock-enhancement injections from a bootleg source.
The New Star Ledger and USA Today report that the women from Essex County were checked into the hospital after they were injected with — get this — bathtub caulking, which caused horrible side effects in the gluteus maximus, state health officials said.
This gives a new meaning to “pain in the …”
The newspapers said the women were forced to undergo immediate surgery and received antibiotics for injections of material that used to caulk bathtubs. Health officials speculate the women received the procedure from an unlicensed source. Steven Marcus, the Poison Information and Education System for the state of New Jersey alerted hospitals to be on the look out for other potential victims.
State health officials refused to released the names or ethnicities of the six women. Greg Borah, the president of the N.J. Society of Plastic Surgeons called the dangerous episode “a tragedy” and warned that such a procedure should only be administered by certified practitioners.
“Fortunately, these women are being treated and are recovering,” said Tina Tan, the state epidemiologist. “But there is the potential for more serious complications if these infections are not treated early and properly.”
Even though breast and cheek augmentations are the most popular procedures, some ethnicities find buttock augmentation more popular than other cultures. Borah told reporters that normally a buttock augmentation would include an incision to “develop a pocket underneath the muscle and shape the buttocks with inert medical-grade silicone.” He has only performed two such procedures in his 24-year career.
–terry shropshire
