Stamping Out A Dread Scourge

In the spirit of a public health campaign, the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (ASPRS) has launched a p.r. drive to "tell the other side of the ((breast-implant)) story." Public health? Slicing women's chests open so that they can be stuffed with a close chemical relative of Silly Putty? Yes, indeed, because the plastic surgeons understand what the FDA is so reluctant to acknowledge: small breasts are not just a harmless challenge to the bikini wearer or would-be topless entertainer. They are a disease, a disfiguring illness for which the technical term is micromastia.

As the ASPRS tried to...

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