As everyone knows now the former Miss Argentina, Solange Magnano died during a buttock lift from a pulmonary embolism (blood clot to the lungs). Unfortunately complications can happen with any kind of surgery. Even if the surgeon does everything right problems can arise. There is an old saying in surgery,”If you don’t have any complications, you’re not doing enough surgery.”The best we can do as surgeons is make sure that the patient we operate on is in the best shape or the procedure and we take all the precautions we can to minimize risk.

This article on CNN.com
highlights some of the dangers involved with cosmetic surgery. No surgery, no matter who performs it, is totally risk free. Your surgeon should inform of all risks before the procedure. Fortunately accidents like what happened to Ms. Magnano are very rare and plastic surgery overall is safe. Just make sure you have a properly certified surgeon by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and the surgery is done in an accredited operating room. If you do that , you’re off to a good start.