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The 411 on Illegal Butt Augmentations  - Buttock injections are on the rise as women across the nation are seeking fuller bottoms. While buttock enhancement surgery is in high demand, many are unaware of the complications surrounding this growing phenomenon. Kelly Mayhew, a BET employee, is the latest woman to lose her life due to complications from silicone injected into her buttocks. BET.com goes behind buttock injections to reveal everything you need to know about the price of living large. —Dominique Zonyéé (Photo: Kelly Mayhew via Facebook)

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The Bigger, the Better - Women are seeking plumper and more-than-life-size derrieres to be more sexually appealing like Beyoncé or J. Lo and often in hope of becoming the next video vixen. With websites and chat rooms including Injectionsbutt.com and Topix.com dedicated to the rising plastic surgery method, it’s becoming one of the more common plastic surgery trends.(Photo: Getty Images/Vetta)

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Plenty Plumping - More than 14 million plastic surgery procedures were performed in 2012, according to a study by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. Dr. Scot Glasberg, the organization’s president-elect, has been practicing for 15 years. “Over the last five years, we have seen more patients seeking buttock augmentations,” Dr. Glasberg told BET.com. “Numbers are rising steadily because of the media and the images out there have more emphasis on the buttocks.” (Photo: LEO RAMIREZ/AFP/Getty Images)

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Bigger Bottom, Even Bigger Pockets - Butt lifts, fat injections and implant augmentations can range from $7K to $12K, according to Dr. Glasberg. However on the black market women are cutting the costs, paying $200 for a consultation and $2,000 for silicone injection procedures. (Photo: Tomitheos Linardos/Getty Images)

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What Is in Your Injection? - Silicone injections are illegal in the United States, so trained and credited MDs use fat injections, from the patients’ own body or implants for buttock augmentations. In many black market procedures, industrial grade silicone, which can be found in Home Depot or other home goods stores, is injected into the buttocks to enhance shape and size.(Photo: GettyImages) 

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How Dangerous Is Silicone? - “Silicone is very difficult to control. When injected into the body, patients can develop lumped scar tissues that can become very painful and hard,” Dr. Glasberg said. At his Upper East Side office in Manhattan, he has had patients come in to repair silicone damage, a surgery he says most surgeons will not do. “Removing the silicone can require multiple surgeries and leave immense scaring.”(Photo: REUTERS/Benoit Tessier)

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Plumping Parties - On the black market, women are attending “plumping parties” and getting injections from con artists. In Philadelphia, Padge Windslowe, 42, also known as the “Black Madam,” was arrested February 2012 for homicide in the death of Claudia Aderotimi, 20. Aderotimi died hours after attending an illegal hotel plumping party hosted by the Black Madam. Windslowe was found guilty and faces 20 to 40 years in prison.(Photo: AP Photo/Philadelphia Police Department, File)

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Death and Complications Are Not Uncommon - Additionally, deaths due to silicone injection complications have been reported in Atlanta, Mississippi, Nevada and New York. O’Neal Ron Morris, who is transgender, posed as a doctor and filled a Miami stripper’s butt with a toxic concoction of cement, mineral oil and flat-tire sealant, which led to severe abdominal pain and infected sores on her buttocks. The faux doctor was arrested in 2011 for practicing without a license.(photo: Getty Images)

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Research Is Key - If you want a larger rump, it’s important that you do your homework. You want to find a surgeon who is board certified, works in an accredited facility and follows safety standards and guidelines. Dr. Glasberg tells those interested in surgery that doing your homework is more than a figure of speech, it’s “actually life-saving advice.”(Photo: GettyImages)

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