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According to new statistics from Save Face, 83 per cent of complainants were not asked their medical history. Seven in ten didn’t know what product was being injected into their faces, and 84 per cent were blocked or ignored by their practitioner when they tried to seek help afterwards. Astonishingly, 93 per cent of those seeking redress were not aware that serious complications could occur, and thought these were low-risk beauty treatments.
‘Contrary to what people may think, dermal fillers are associated with far more potential risks than Botox,’ says Dr Gammell. ‘Risks with dermal fillers can range from lumps to permanent blindness, if a filler is injected into a blood vessel resulting in a vascular occlusion (blocked blood vessel).’
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Dr Gout, who is president of the British College of Aesthetic Medicine, has spent four years formulating a strategy to do just that – and key to its success is longterm planning. ‘Typically, toxins last for three months before the effects wear off,’ she explains. ‘So training needs to be done at three-month intervals, for one year. This delivers a consistent signal to the brain not to cause over-contractions’; Gout uses a variety of toxins – from Botox to Dysport, depending upon the face (though she reports a rise in the use of Xeomin, the ‘clean toxin’ endorsed by Gwyneth Paltrow). If treatment is paused – due to pregnancy or illness, for example – the process starts over.
Exclusive: Aesthetic doctors offer to swap Botox for administering coronavirus vaccine
Thousands of cosmetic providers in Britain are currently unable to perform treatments such as filler and non-medical Botox in lockdown
11 January 2021 • 6:00am
The Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has expressed strong interest in using cosmetic doctors and nurses in the vaccine roll-out, the
Telegraph can reveal.
One of the UK’s leading luxury surgical and non-surgical aesthetics chain, The Private Clinic and Cosmetics Skin Clinic, have offered up their teams to help as volunteers to administer the AstraZeneca vaccine, with 16 sites regionally employing 100 surgeons, doctors and nurses.