Warning of 'rotting flesh' from cheap lip fillers at 'unregulated' clinics
Brits have been warned over cheap lip treatments that could leave people with a nasty infection - or even blind.
Dr Paige Shaw, a specialist in facial aesthetic treatments dentist at Ever Clinic in Glasgow, Scotland, said the cut-price fillers put you at risk of a 'lifetime of pain'. She says that patients receiving lip fillers abroad have been left with black, 'necrotic' or rotting lips as a result of poor treatment standards and dodgy procedures.
If not treated in time, sufferers can face a lifetime of corrective treatments, costing them thousands more than their cheap deal appeared to save them. One particular area of danger comes from vascular occlusion, where substance injected as lip filler enters a blood vessel and blocks blood supply.
There has been a boom in bookings at 'travelling clinics', which often move location quickly (Ever Clinic / SWNS)The warning comes as increasing numbers of people suffer life-changing complications amid a boom in bookings at unregulated 'travelling clinics', which often move location quickly. Dr Shaw said: “We are seeing increasing numbers of patients who are desperate to have complications fixed.
The most damaging cases I have seen are vascular occlusion – when a lip filler gets into a blood vessel or blocks blood supply. The results can be horrendous. The lips can turn black and eventually necrotic – that is, the death of living tissue. Eventually if untreated, it leaves scar tissue – and a lifetime of regret for the sufferer.”
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Dr Paige Shaw, an aesthetics expert in the UK, said under-pressure NHS doctors were left to give urgent treatments (Ever Clinic / SWNS)
Filler can enter into a blood vessel and stop blood supply (Ever Clinic / SWNS)Non-surgical procedures account for nine out of 10 cosmetic procedures, and make up 70% of market now worth in excess of £3.6 billion to the UK economy. Dr Paige, who focuses on head and neck treatments, said that if unqualified practitioners inject filler into the nose, it can affect vessels that connect to the eye – potentially causing permanent blindness.
Urgent treatment is then required to remove the filler to prevent life changing complications, though this can become impossible if the practitioner was operating from a travelling clinic which has moved on. Many victims of these botched treatments end up being sent to NHS hospitals for treatment, where doctors may not be familiar with responding to failed aesthetic treatments.
She said: "Aside from any other considerations, it is quite unfair to load yet more pressure on an NHS which is already under huge pressure. If things go wrong and you have seen a professionally qualified medical practitioner with all the right equipment and medical colleague support, you are much more likely as a patient to have problems corrected by them and, if not, be referred to the appropriate person."
According to Dr Paige, the five main dangers associated with cosmetic procedures are infection at the procedure site, bruising, migration of the filler away from the intendeed site, asymmetry and nodules that cause complications later.
She added: “While properly procured dermal fillers are safe and effective in the right hands, there are unscrupulous people in the world who will try to take advantage of others. Anyone thinking of a procedure should seek out suitably qualified and experienced professionals. These should be medical practitioners who meet set standards in training, skills and insurance. Mounting evidence shows that the cheapest options are just not worth it.”
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