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Meet Madge's New Face

Plastic surgery for Madonna? No, experts say; just fancy skin treatments, plus Botox

By Gabriel Winant, Newser User

Posted Feb 25, 2009 11:23 AM CST

(Newser) – “When all else fails and you long to be / Something better than you are today.” Sound familiar, Madonna? The Queen of Pop seems to be looking better these days, notes ABC News. Has she had work done? Nothing surgical, say experts, but just about everything else. “It looks like she had a sapphire abrasion or a vibra facial,” says one doctor. That, plus a heap of Botox for her eyebrows and nose.

And that’s enough, one expert says. “Hopefully, she’ll maintain at this point and not do more,” says Suzan Obazi of the University of Pittsburgh’s Cosmetic Surgery and Skin Health Center. “That’s what happened with Priscilla Presley—she kept putting more and more volume in her face and now has some severe side effects. Madonna should stop here.”

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Madonna arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar party Sunday in West Hollywood, Calif. (AP Photo)

Madonna pose during a photo call for the movie "Filth And Wisdom" at the International Film Festival Berlinale in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2008. (AP Photo/Hermann J. Knippertz)

Madonna poses for photographers in this 2007 file photo. (AP Photo)

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She's had Botox, which gives her that nice, flared eyebrow. In the older photo, her eyebrows are almost horizontal. In the new one, they're arching up. That's a tell-tale sign. - Dr. Bruce Katz, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine's Juva Skin and Laser Clinic

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