The death of Silvina Luna it again put the focus on the “cheaper”, misused and illegal surgical products that are applied in different operations. The scandal surrounding Aníbal Lotocki and methacrylate.
“I have no idea what he put on me. Apparently it’s a methacrylate that he did at home, mixed with a polymer,” the model said at the time. Pamela Sosa to NEWS. This substance would have caused about ten granulomas in his body, and his diabetes, as a result of cosmetic surgery on his buttocks by his ex-partner, the controversial surgeon Hannibal Lotockiwhich he denounces today.
Sosa is another of the many celebrities operated by Lotocki that points against methacrylate and others “stuffed trout” as the possible elements that wreaked havoc on his health. Methacrylate, in its version for aesthetic medicine, is expensive. Experts then denounced that a parallel market existed in Argentina, with a much cheaper and lethal offer: industrial methacrylate , liquid silicone and even surgical cement.A class B aesthetic medicine.
Polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA or dry Methacrylate) is a acrylic compound with a wide range of uses ranging from aesthetics to dentistry. However, in its liquid form, its use in the human body is limited to frontal wrinkles, facial contours, back and tip of the nose, penile and labia enlargement, and cellulite pocking.
Sosa had 1,800 kilograms of foreign matter. A weight that, as indicated by Mónica Milito, today her plastic surgeon, would be equivalent to approximately 40 boxes of methacrylate. I mean, if Lotocki had stuffed her ex’s buttocks with this material, she would have spent about $16,000. “The approved methacrylate was not being used. We know that there are professionals who use unauthorized products in large volumes,” Milito explained.
Parallel market
There is a class B aesthetic medicine, which works with cheaper products, misused, and even prohibited for medicine. Most of them are imported from countries like Brazil and Ecuador, and can be purchased through some websites. As in the case of “Dr. buttocks”, one liquid silicone for real industrial use whose half liter could be obtained for 200 dollars, until the page was taken down a few months ago.
“Legal products are also used but for other purposes, such as the”subiton”, a surgical cement used for vertebroplasty, the price is 800 pesos for 50 cubic centimeters”, explained Adriana Ponti.
A third misused element would be dental methacrylate, which due to the size of its microparticles, cannot be absorbed by the cells of the immune system that are in charge of “cleaning” the foreign material in the body, when the material is injected. In this way, different alterations occur in the body, ranging from simple inflammation and infection, through hypercalcemiaautoimmune diseases such as diabetes and lupus, to death itself.
In Argentina, the Xipolitakis sisters also denounced a few years ago that Lotocki He used another material when operating them, and in a biopsy, Stefy was found “Subiton”, as a relative tells. Gabriela Trenchi is also another Lotocki victim: “We suspect that he is not methacrylate. We are in the middle of the process to be certain, ”says his lawyer Mariano Lizardo, the same one who achieved the conviction against Aníbal Lotocki that would be reviewed today after the death of Silvina Luna.
by RN
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