Maradona gets cosmetic lift in Colombia

AFP, September, 2007

BOGOTA (AFP) — Argentine football legend Diego Maradona last month visited a clinic in Colombia to iron out some wrinkles and shrink his double chin, a doctor said Thursday.

Maradona arrived in Bogota on August 28 to undergo what his personal doctor, Alfredo Cahe, at the time said was aesthetic dental work.

The 46-year-old former player took advantage of his stay to also undergo other procedures and "lose a few years," Alejandro Rada, a Colombian doctor who worked on the star, said on Caracol broadcast network.

Maradona's double chin was reduced, and "we diminished the number of wrinkles on his forehead and between his eyebrows," Rada said.

"We also raised his eyebrows so that he could have an even more expressive look," Rada added.

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