Risky injections, complications: 200 cosmetic surgeons call for the end of the free sale of hyaluronic acid

In recent months, cosmetic doctors and surgeons such as laboratories have regularly taken the floor to warn of the risks and excesses that they have increasingly observed in their practices over the past three years.

“We recover patients with disasters, from whom we had to amputate a piece of lip or a piece of nose.

Or others in whom we had to remove the skin from the forehead or the nose because there was necrosis”, warned doctor Adel Louafi in a report by “Zone Interdite” on M6.

The president of the National Union of Cosmetic Surgery is today the signatory of a forum published by

this Wednesday, March 29, joined by 199 members of the profession.

"Given the seriousness of this illegal practice, we, plastic surgeons, ask that the sale of hyaluronic acid and other injectable fillers be controlled, and that their delivery be made only to doctors authorized to practice these acts. .”

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Risks of sepsis and gangrene

In the text, the signatories indeed emphasize that "hundreds of injectors, non-doctors, practice illegal acts on the population, in particular the youngest and most vulnerable, with great publicity on social networks".

Serious risks are run: sepsis, gangrene and hospitalizations in intensive care, involving the vital prognosis of young patients.

“Never had such complications been identified in France in forty years of practice.”

An alarming finding that the National Union of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery (SNCPRE) wants to make heard both by the authorities and the general public to protect patients.

It is partly to social networks that we owe these significant excesses.

They have indeed made it possible to democratize surgery and aesthetic medicine.

And opened the market to a new clientele, younger and therefore more vulnerable as the forum points out.

Because that is where the shoe pinches.

Seeing it as an easy target, many people have gone into the business of injections, without training, taking advantage of the free access to the sale of hyaluronic acid.

“Injection evenings” where each guest is entitled to treatment, as in a simple Tupperware meeting, have even emerged.

In its dedicated report, the program "Zone Interdite" took its camera to the "clandestine cabinets",

where "wild" injections are performed by "beauticians" at prices half the price of those posted on average by really qualified doctors.

However, the price in the long term can turn out to be much heavier.

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