What Price Will You Pay to Save Face? ; . Male Facelift: Pounds 7,000 . Uk Men Under the Knife Last Year: 6,000 . Number of Horror Stories: Under Wraps...

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Male plastic surgery is the fastest-growing medical phenomenon of the decade. As she launches a major TV health series, Live's Carole Caplin reports on what every man should know about going under the knife

Christmas is over. You're back at your desk, taking down the last decoration, when a colleague strolls in. As he waves a cheery hello an unnerving observation hits you. You've worked with him for years but it's as if you are looking at his younger brother a fresher version of the man you thought you knew.

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What Price Will You Pay to Save Face? ; . Male Facelift: Pounds 7,000 . Uk Men Under the Knife Last Year: 6,000 . Number of Horror Stories: Under Wraps...

As you are trying to make sense of this, your boss sweeps by only to stop and remark how well and rested your colleague looks. As the day unfolds, you become increasingly irritated both by the attention he's getting and the way your superiors subtly alter their attitude towards him.

Enough! You corner him in the pub at lunchtime and demand to know his secret. He says he's simply had a good rest over the holidays and that's the only reason he looks ten years younger.

But as he turns to the bar, you notice a very small but livid scar close to his left ear, and around his jawline some faint bruising. Could he have had cosmetic surgery? A facelift? Surely not that's something only women have, isn't it?

If that's how you still think and the majority of men do then you're ...

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