This week it was reported that six New Jersey women were hospitalized for complications related to the injection of non-medical grade silicone into their buttocks by apparently unlicensed persons. According to a representative of the New Jersey Poison Information Center, the six women were treated by one or more unscrupulous individuals who injected what appears to be BATHROOM CAULK into their "gluteal region" in a back alley version of a buttocks augmentation.  The victims were admitted to the hospital, all were operated on to remove large abcesses and required antibiotics.  Although I am confident that none of the agelessandcosmeticblog.com readers would ever seek out cosmetic treatment from such non-qualified practitioners, this bizarre story underscores the need to be ever-vigilant about:

1-the qualifications and experience of all your medical providers, 

2-the devices with which they want to treat you, and

3-the medications and injectibles that they prescribe.