SURGERY KIDS

RADIO TELEVISION SUISSE | 27min

Post Production Script

 

Before aesthetic medicine it concerned women of my age, the fifty years old, who with a little syringe or scalpel wanted to offer themselves a few years less ....

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Today everything has changed ... The 18-34 year olds are now more numerous than the 50 year olds to intervene on their face and their body ... Big lips, big breasts, big buttocks ... Why this need to transform themselves and how all this has become a business? ... This is what I tried to understand...

         00 39 WHAT'S THE FAKE !

 

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At 21 years old Joana chose to try her luck in the fashion world. Her thing is handbags made of basketballs...Bags that she sells better and better on social networks...So to boost her image and her business as an influencer, she wanted to give herself a new look...

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ITV JOANA BENDER

Stylist, 21 years old

I'm doing a little kiff for this summer, I'll do the Russian technique on my lips ...

I'm going to plump up my upper lip as well as my lower lip ...and I'll be more or less like this but not too much like this either ...

Doesn't it look a little bit like a hen's arse? a little bit, but since it's fashionable, it's okay ...

So you do it because it's fashionable?

I do it because it's fashionable in my opinion if it wasn't fashionable nobody would do it ...!

So it's not very thoughtful Joanna ?

It's not really thought out but I'm a bit like that, I tend to do things on the spur of the moment like my tattoos, the last three tattoos I got were on the spur of the moment...

SEQUENCE GIRLS

ITV JOANA BENDER

Where does this desire to have such big lips come from ?

Well, in my opinion it comes clearly from social networks, from the videos that we can see on TV, from fashion magazines, in short, from everything that represents the actual woman...

From reality TV stars too ? Yeah a lot a lot it comes from there I think mainly ...

 

The big lips, the big breasts, the big buttocks come from porn ?

Yeah well it's clearly because it's exciting I think ....

Doesn't it bother you as a young woman? Yes, it bothers me when I talk about it with you now, but in general when I'm on social networks, you see, I'm going to redo my lips later on ... Well, it's known that sex helps to sell ...

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In this dictatorship of the image, we must also add the beauty filters made available for free by social networks which push young people even more to want to correct their defects ...

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ITV JOANA BENDER

Stylist, 21 years old

I use these filters all the time when I talk through my instagram page in story I use filters all the time ...

Do you think this influences the use of cosmetic medicine or plastic surgery?

Yes, a lot, a lot, well, I've heard from some girls when they film themselves with this type of filter, well, they think they're pretty, of course, because you have pretty lips, but when they look in the mirror they see a difference and they have a lot of complexes about their faces... whereas what they see on the screen is not true.

Demonstration

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In a few hours Joana won't need those filters to have a full mouth ... after a small injection of hyaluronic acid, she will be able to show ... her real "fake" lips ....

 

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Dr. Hervé Raspaldo is a specialist in facial surgery. This Frenchman from the Côte d'Azur settled in Geneva a few years ago and for good reason ... the Swiss are very big consumers of aesthetic medicine ... and among them there are always more young people ...

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ITV DR HERVE RASPALDO

Medicine and Cosmetic Surgery GE

It's true that when I started my career in 1991-92, we had people who were over 50 years old, that's a bit for rejuvenation, then the first injections appeared in the lips to give them a little bit of shape, and then we started to have people a little bit younger, 40-30 years old, and there has been an incredible boom for the last 3 years, and especially this year, between 18 and 30 years old...

And how do you explain this boom?

The selfie makes us look at ourselves much more often and these young people look at themselves more and more often and tend to want to change their image ....

Have you ever had patients who ask you to look like them but with a filter?

Well, yes, that's often the case, because we idealize the young person's image and then it's up to us to say, well, we can improve your face. We can change the volumes and the contours a little, but we'll stay within the reality...

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As soon as she knew that it existed, Emilie did not hesitate .... This is the second time she has come to have an injection...The goal: to fill in her dark circles, to swell her lips and to reshape her chin and nose...All for about 1800 francs.

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ITV EMILIE VIGNE-DONATI

30 years old

Did the people around you see you after the first injection?

Those who know me very well, yes, but no. For example, my grandmother did not see me and yet she analyzes me ....

ITV DR HERVE RASPALDO

We are doctors above all we do a wonderful job surgery and aesthetic medicine but we have to educate me I do a medical interrogation, we look for the antecedents and then we advise cad if it is a request which is extravagant I refuse, if it is a request which is limit I say we are going to wait and we have a camera in 3 D which with a photo in 3 dimensions allows to see how is the face and after we can even propose a modification and propose to the person to see what would be the results which would please him...

BREAK ARCHIVE

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A Bon entendeur April 1, 2008

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The time seems long gone when injectable products, botox in particular, made people shudder ...

Toxin, biological weapon ... words that resonate strangely when you stroll through the glamorous corridors of this first center of aesthetic medicine in Switzerland, in Geneva ... And that you imagine behind these doors all these patients who have their foreheads frozen with botox or fill in the wrinkles of the lower face with hyaluronic acid ...

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ITV DR LUIGI LEONARDO POLLA

Dermatologist, founder of Forever Institute

I almost feel like I've been asleep for 20 years and I've woken up in a world where finally having injections has become normal?

It has become normal, yes, it has become a societal phenomenon thanks to you, to the media and to social networks that have popularized this medical approach and that have exalted the well-being ...

IMAGES

You yourself in the past, Dr Polla, have been quite criticized in the media, a little bit perceived as Dr Botox ?

Yes, I was indeed criticized, but maybe rightly so, because I had an avant-garde vision of botox... I was actually proposing to offer botox injections to young people who could be 20 to 25 years old, like my daughters for example...

 

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ITV RACHEL POLLA

General Manager Forever

What people didn't understand, but what my father had already perceived, was that aesthetic medicine can also be used for prevention ....

So you continue to use botox? yes, I continue to use Alain Berset's words, I would say that I do it as often as necessary but as little as possible ... more seriously, I continue to use botox and I do it twice a year

 

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ITV CYRILLE POLLA

Forever Communication Director

Yes, of course, botox, of course, more or less at the same age, around 25 ....

In fact, botox is essentially the upper third of the face, so it's the same between the eyebrows and the forehead, around the eyes...

Hyaluronic acid you also do? yes I did it too I tried several times in the lips right now it's been more than 2 years since I did it so at the moment we don't see the result ...

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To keep up with the times, the founder chose to hand over the reins of the institute to his 4 daughters 5 years ago ... Rachel, number 3, who is 38 years old, became the general manager and Cyrille, 40 years old, number 2, communication manager ...

Their mission ... to continue the work of dad while promoting aesthetic medicine in their image ... uncomplicated and at attractive prices ...

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ITV RACHEL POLLA

Our dream would be to be able to talk about what we did to our skin or even our injections, just like we can talk about going to the hairdresser to get a blow-dry or to the manicurist...

HELLO WELCOME

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And in fact, when you walk through the door of the store they have opened in Lausanne, it's like entering a hairdressing salon ... reception at the bar, a little glass of champagne ... the syringe stroke is as simple as a combing ... You almost forget that these are medical procedures!

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ITV CYRILLE POLLA

Does democratizing mean trivializing the medical act?

So in any case not for us we do not trivialize the gesture nor the products we use nor the expertise of our doctors but it is true that we transform the relationship we create with our customers ...

SOUND ... settle down ...

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And to specifically target young people, there is nothing better than social networks... the communication director has also understood this...

She calls on influencers like David ... who came that day for a second botox injection ...

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ITV DAVID FERNANDEZ

Influencer

What's the deal with the institute?

So Cyrille we can talk about it .... It's an exchange of processes in fact simply so they offer me the treatment and then I talk about the experience I have with the institute so there is no taboo I can say that it's positive or negative it only commits me there is no contract that tells me what I have to say but it's always in the respect of the sign in any case and in relation to the service that is offered to me...

 

ITV Cyrille POLLA

Forever Communication Director

We are not normally allowed to advertise medical procedures?

Well, there is the Swissmedic organization that regulates all of this very well in Switzerland and we follow the regulations and adapt to Swissmedic...

Finally, isn't working with influencers or social networks a way to circumvent the advertising ban?

It's information and information sharing with influencers, yeah...

 

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If there are some who have well understood the weight of influencers to develop cosmetic surgery, it is Medespoir, a Franco-Tunisian agency of medical tourism that has existed for 10 years now.

SOUND

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Medespoir collaborates in Turkey with a group of private clinics that boasts of welcoming 2 million foreign patients per year, a quarter of which are for aesthetic purposes... 10% of them are Swiss and among them more and more young people... A Fake Industry that owes its success in large part to the publicity of French reality TV stars...

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ITV IMEN DELILL

General Manager Aram Clinic Medespoir

Let's be transparent, what are your contracts with reality TV stars?

The deal is simply to offer an operation, an operation that we don't force them to undergo, we can't force them to undergo an operation or to film the operation, no. We offer them an operation that they can offer to their parents, their friends, their brothers and sisters... There are other strategies following other competitors who force reality TV stars to undergo an operation... who pay stars? who pay and who force them, but we're not talking about healthy communication anymore...

 

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It is for the attractive prices-two to three times cheaper than in Switzerland-that Jennifer Martinez chose to go through Medespoir ...

On that Sunday, this 27 year old businesswoman had just left the canton of Vaud for Istanbul ..... The goal of the trip: to offer herself the breast of her dreams ...

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ITV JENNIFER MARTINEZ

Restaurant employee, 27 years old

Jennifer So this is it?

Yes, super excited... a little anxious, a little stressed but otherwise I can't wait

After waiting so long for this complex

And the operation is when it's due on Tuesday morning ... Tuesday morning I'm going to the operating room ...

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The agency takes care of the transfer, the hotel and of course the two days of hospitalization ///

The day after their arrival Jennifer and her companion who joined her the night before have an appointment with the surgeon ...A translator is in charge of the intermediary...

Sound ... "how it's going to be "

It is the first time that the Waldensian woman has a contact with her doctor ... She had before neither health examination, nor psychological care....

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ITV DR Isken TONGUç

Plastic Surgery Memorial Hospital Istanbul

Is there a psychological consultation before?

Psychological consultation what exactly do you mean by that?

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Obviously, the psychological aspect is not part of the all inclusive package...

On the other hand, we don't skimp on the silicone or on the surgery ... 12

SOUND .... " "an excess of fat " "

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Jennifer came for simple breast prostheses ... In the end she ends up with 3 interventions on the breasts, a liposuction of the belly and a lipofilling ... in short the surgeon will take fat from adipose areas to add fat where she feels she lacks it ... especially on the hips ...

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ITV DR Isken TONGUç

It may seem like it's a bit like the supermarket?

You shouldn't think like that ... I also sometimes refuse to operate saying that we just can't do it ...

You know, plastic surgery gives you a lot of happiness ... a bit like when you climb Everest, it gives you endorphins but to reach this state of plenitude you have to take risks ...

 

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ITV JENNIFER Martinez

Restaurant employee 27 years old

It's not too much?

No, no, because it's all done at once, so you suffer once instead of over the long term ...

So it doesn't make you anxious? not at all not at all

You didn't feel pressured to consume?

No, far from it...he's going to sculpt me...what woman wouldn't want to be sculpted that way...

What do you think a bigger chest will give you?

Confidence in myself ...a great confidence in myself ...and I think that when you have confidence in yourself you also give off that ...

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ITV SACHA Würsten

 

You don't have any particular reservations about her coming to Turkey to have the operation?

No, who am I to tell her that she shouldn't do it ... if she has pain with her reflection every day of her life I think she's right to do something

Do you understand?

Totally

You didn't try to discourage her? not at all no I prefer to accompany her ...

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And indeed Sacha supports Jennifer physically, morally and also financially ... because the initial estimate of 3500 euros was largely exceeded ... the final bill reached 5500 euros ... But the couple decided to accept even if it represents a lot of money for their salaries as sports coach and waitress ....

SOUND MUSIC

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The next day is the D day ...Early in the morning Jennifer is prepared for the operation .... An operation that will last 8 hours ...

 

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Back to Switzerland ... More precisely in Bussigny in the canton of Vaud ... Swan is a young tattoo artist ... Her body is her transformation ground ...

"Hello to all "  

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ITV SWAN FAGOZ

Tattoo artist, 24 years old

Swan your hair is super long ?

I cheated a little bit, I have extensions just underneath, I don't know if you can see them, just like my eyelashes that I put on every morning and of course my nails that I do every 3 weeks so they are very very long

The face I redid my lips, I also redid the jo line so the contour of the face to really redraw with hyaluronic acid and then I also redid my cheekbones and then I did a fox eyes ... What is the fox eyes ? in fact the fox eyes is just to raise the arch of the eyebrow, the eyes that makes you have cat eyes ...

I had a breast augmentation with prostheses, I also had liposuction of the stomach, love handles, saddlebags and thighs, they removed about 5 liters, 5 liters and a half of fat ... It's a lot? yes it's a lot but it's worth it ...

Ideally, within 1 or 2 years, I would like to do a BBL, a Brazilian facelift. It's just a matter of taking the fat from the body and remodeling the body with the little holes and imperfections, and then redoing all that well and evenly.

Only that!

All this at what age? 24

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Like Jennifer, Swan was operated abroad...it was not in Turkey but in Tunisia through another agency than Medespoir .... and it was rather ...rock and roll ...

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ITV SWAN FAGOZ

I was supposed to see the doctor before the operation and he never came ... he showed up about the morning of the operation 6am the nurses rushed me awake, they put an IV in my arm ... here we go we chose we discussed we chose the prostheses, the size all that ah ok, we go now well now right away, he said yes yes get undressed we leave and then a few hours later I woke up with my new body ...

It was the Renaissance and I weigh my words when I say rebirth because my new life was starting now...

IMAGES

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A rebirth maybe but huge bruises ... and a girdle that straps her body from the neck to the knees, to wear non-stop for 3 months and this in the middle of summer ...

ITV SWAN Fagoz

Tattoo artist, 24 years old

Why do you do this to yourself ?

For me it's not self-inflicted....cad that I have been for a long time in disagreement with my body ... the only solution left to me was either to live with it but not to be 100% ok with my body or to use what is given to me to feel better and it's true that since I did that my life has completely changed .... it allowed me to feel at ease, femme fatale, sexy, well here I have the complete panel of the vision I had of myself as a woman ....

Swan, you are a feminist, you claim to be a feminist, an activist, isn't it paradoxical, isn't it antinomic ?  

No, not at all ....

I think that we reappropriate plastic surgery and our beauty in fact that I did it for me not because you want me to be like that or what ... you don't do it for guys? not at all not at all it's purely for my self love for myself and if it allows me to love myself as a woman as a person as a human being and it allows me to get better why I will not do it ...

 

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7 o'clock in the morning, Meyrin, in the suburbs of Geneva...SONORE we find in a private clinic the surgeon Hervé Raspaldo...this day he sees for a last consultation a sculptural young woman of 34 years old who wishes to have her bichat balls removed...

I must admit that until that day I was completely unaware of this part of our anatomy ...

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ITV Dr HERVE RASPALDO

Medicine and cosmetic surgery GE

It is a fat that serves to slide the jaw and the mandible into the temporal fossa in some people. It is a little in excess, so it gives this face a little rounded, even if we lose weight, it remains? It remains ... so in fact we can go through the inside of the mouth we call it bichectomy remove the ball of Bichat and we remove half the three quarters of this fat so it will allow to restructure the face a bit like when we bite our cheeks that we will make a beautiful photo a beautiful selfie ...

Is it fashionable?

It's a little bit fashionable ....

SOUND

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ITV JASMINE WHEATCROFT

34 years old

It's not a whim, it's not a caprice ? no I cheat a little bit ....

SONORE

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No sooner said than done ....A few minutes later Jasmine finds herself in the operating room to give herself a new oval face ....

A complete narcosis ... to remove two small balls in the cheeks ... SOUND and to suck in the passage a little fat at the level of the jaw ...

ITV Dr HERVE RASPALDO

Medicine and cosmetic surgery GE

We can't help but think that it's all for this... We are still in the business of superfluous surgery... luxury surgery?

I would not use these terms, I would say that we are in the surgery of comfort in the surgery of well-being and in the surgery of the best self-image ....

It's her choice? we are here to help to help with discernment with tact and afterwards we have all the tools to make people happy...

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A happiness that has a price but that the surgeon did not want to communicate to us ...

 

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For Jennifer a new breast was clearly the key to happiness .... 6 days after her operation I went to see her when she left the plane ... and despite the discomfort of the girdle she looked ... happy ....

25 28 ITV JENNIFER MARTINEZ

Restaurant employee, 27 years old

So the result? they are there ... I can't see my feet ...

ITV SACHA WÜRSTEN

She is happy so I am happy ....

ITV JENNIFER Martinez

We got to go shopping ...ah it was great ...

Did you buy your new bras?

Ah they look like parachutes though ...

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Under the tracksuit it is difficult to perceive the transformation, but according to the photo she sent me it is rather spectacular ...

SOUND

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As for Joanna, the time has come for her to offer her Russian lips ....

I tried many times to contact the beautician where she had an appointment ... but she finally let me know that she was not interested ... it must be said that according to the law only a doctor can perform injections ...

Anyway, Joanna was ready to do anything to get her new mouth ....

One hour later...and for 250 francs...she had it...

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ITV JOANA BENDER

Stylist, 21 years old

I can't smile anymore ...I am very happy .... I'm talking to you ...I'm very happy it hurt me I'm not going to lie it hurt me I made it very light apparently the next three days it will be well swollen so thank god there is the mask but I'm happy with the result ...

I'll be able to flirt this summer ...I'll be a babe bomb ...

 

 

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Because it has become as commonplace as a tattoo, because reality TV stars praise it all the time on Storys, because in our society governed by the cult of the ego, appearance takes precedence, it's a safe bet that many young people will still go through the needle and scalpel process...

27 09 Signature

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