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"\n\tAdvertisement - Continue Reading Below\n\t\n\n\n\nThese days, if you've got a problem with your face, some plastic surgeon's got an answer. Fire facials, vampire facials, injecting poison into your frown lines ... what will they think of next?! Introducing the stem cell facelift: For a mere $20,000, the procedure (not to be confused with the stem cell facial) takes stem cell-enriched tissue from troublesome fatty areas like the tummy or thighs and injects it straight into the face (how pleasant!). Fans of the procedure are claiming it's better (and obviously more costly) than Botox. Practitioners of stem cell facelifts insist they deliver better results, since there are more fatty tissues in stem cells, so that desirable, less wrinkly younger look lasts longer, naturally. But critics says this fancy-schmancy title is just another name for fat grafting\u2014taking fat from a part of the body and putting it elsewhere\u2014and that's been around for years. Others are saying that it still has some major kinks to be worked out: One account of a woman who dished the five-figure cost to a Beverly Hills doctor claims she now has a permanent clicking sound whenever she opens and closes her mouth. It turns out some of the stem cells injected into her eyelid mixed with a dermal filler and formed into bone. If that's not something straight out of a horror movie, we don't know what is. There's a price to pay for beauty. But $20,000 seems pretty high for a facial that still needs to be test driven. And while we're at it, let us point out that stem cells might/definitely have more important uses right now than facial rejuvenation, like, I don't know, IMPROVING CANCER TREATMENT, researching all sorts of diseases, healing burn scars, reconstructing breast tissue, testing new drugs, etc. etc That seems a little more important than a housewife's crow's feet, dontchathink?Want more stories from Carson? Follow her on Twitter.Photo Credit: iStockPhoto"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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