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You see them everywhere in Lebanon: the women whose faces look as tight as a 20-year-old’s until their wrinkled hands betray them as septuagenarians; the television presenters whose upper lips lump to one side; and all those cute, celestial noses! As you walk down the street you see dozens of faces, male and female, all sporting the same smooth nose with pointed tip.  It feels like an epidemic of cosmetic procedures all around you. Advertisements for liposuction and filler procedures in places such as beauty or physical therapy centers have become as common as advertisements for the latest hamburger.  Mind you, reconstructive and plastic surgery can be as vital to a person’s wellbeing and recovery from a burn or accident as any serious surgical procedure. Lebanese specialists do sometimes perform these literally face-saving procedures, and they are to be commended for their work.  But the bulk of plastic surgery procedures