Medi-Spas with No Medics!
The Telegraph has reported the UK Plastic Surgeons’ concerns regarding the lack of regulation with Medical Spas.
These establishments appear to provide invasive treatments such as Botox and Fillers without any medical supervision! The Medical Spas seem to feel this is safe as long as they keep to a strict sense of hygiene.
I’m not sure I would agree with that. Anything that involves injections should only be done under medical supervision. Certainly the treatments done are safe. But only under the right hands. And hygiene standards alone do not guarantee the ability to deal with any problems that ensue. And complications do occasionally happen.
For example: granuloma formation with hyaluronic acid fillers. Would Aestheticians know how to recognise and treat such an occurrence? Ptosis with Botox: they can’t prescribe the required eye drops to enhance muscle activity.
Where will they stop? Syringe liposuction? Thread lifts?
Aesthetic procedures have been de-regulated in the UK recently. I was wondering what the controversy was about. Surely doctors, particular the ones trained in the UK, know their limits and would not overstep the boundary. Now I see the point of contention.
Once again, I back the Plastic Surgeons and say that procedures, even minimally invasive ones, should be performed by a medically qualified person only.