Beauty expert's fears over botched surgery

A BEAUTY treatment expert has urged the Government to regulate the UK's £3billion aesthetics industry which has seen a massive surge in unlicensed operatives.

- Laurie Stone

A survey by Save Face, a national register of accredited practitioners, found 83 per cent of complications from non-surgical procedures were due to treatments performed by rogue operatives.

And Vanessa Brown, head of sales and marketing in the UK for US-based health laser business Erchonia, warned: "These unlicensed practitioners are putting the lives of their clients at risk."

And the 28-year-old added: "The Government has to step in quickly before things get out of hand.

"Treatments, including fillers and chemical peels, are fuelling a dangerous and unregulated scenario.

"It's like the Wild West out there right now with cheap products, including copycats of weight-loss medications and technologies sold online to naive consumers.