Mar 25, 2012 | Washington Times
Free cosmetic treatments for the poor aim to make patients feel good about themselves
A doctor wheels a breast-implant patient out of an operating room at Santa Casa de Misericordia Hospital in Rio de Janeiro, which focuses on reconstructive surgeries for burn victims and people with serious deformities but also provides discounted cosmetic procedures for Brazil's poor.
Brazil's poor get free beauty treatment
A machine purrs as it delivers electrical pulses deep into the saggy skin on Barbara Penha's jawline, a high-tech treatment used first to tighten her jowls and then to sculpt her tummy.