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The aesthetics market is increasingly marked by violent slippages. Outside the offices, apprentice doctors sell their services for injections at low prices, often with disastrous consequences.
Clandestine aesthetic practices offer rapid injections, at a lower price. However, they are not without danger. Doctor Adel Louafi, plastic surgeon and president of the national plastic surgery union, sees more and more disfigured patients arriving in his Parisian office. They suffer from serious infections, due to injections of hyaluronic acid. “When it is incorrectly injected, it can lead to disasters because it will clog vessels. It can go up in the eye causing blindness, go up in the brain causing cerebral accidents, (…) or burn the face “, he explains.
If in theory it can only be injected by doctors, hyaluronic acid, the sale of which is not regulated, is sometimes injected into clandestine “offices”, which advertise themselves on social networks. It only takes a few minutes to make an appointment. The injections are done in a simple apartment. Amount of the transaction? 200 euros in cash, almost half the cost of a professional act. Thousands of patients resort to these illegal acts every year. Few still complain about complications. Those who injected risk two years in prison and a fine of 30,000 euros for the illegal practice of medicine.