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Improving Asset Quality
She was tall, fair and pretty, and yet she did not
feel attractive. Reason: she had small breasts. So,
this 25-year-old girl from New Delhi, who cannot be
named, decided to take the inorganic route to gain size.
With the blessings of her parents, she opted for breast
augmentation surgery, a procedure through which
silicon pads are inserted between the ribcage and the
mammary glands to enhance the size of a woman’ s breasts.
The family approached Dr Rashmi Taneja, Senior
Consultant Plastic and Cosmetic surgeon at the Fortis
Hospital in Vasant Kunj, New Delhi. After consultations,
it was decided to enhance the girl’ s cup size from 32AA
to 32C. (Breast sizes range from AA, considered small,
to C, considered well endowed, to D, E, F and beyond. )
The family paid` 1. 25 lakh for the procedure. The
surgery was a success and everyone was the happier for
it.
It may have received some bad press of late
following reports of serious defects in implants made
by a French company, but breast augmentation is a