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As you may have seen or heard, some of the recommendations for changes in regulation to the cosmetic surgery industry have been released. This review, commissioned by the department of health in the wake of the PIP breast implant scandal, has investigated in to how best to protect patients who chose to undergo cosmetic procedures, something that is incredibly popular in this day and age.

The Cosmetic Surgery industry is a very lucrative business and is forecast to be worth about £3.6bn by 2015. The overall feeling I get from this review is that the attitude to cosmetic surgery needs to, and is going to, have to change with several comments referencing that getting such invasive treatment appears to be as normal as buying “double glazing” or walking in to have your hair done at a hairdressers with Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS medical director for England, describing the situation as “bizarre”.
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Abdominoplasty, commonly referred to as a tummy tuck, is a cosmetic procedure in which excess skin and fat is removed to give the patient a more desirable and flatter stomach. This procedure is often sought after pregnancy or extreme weight loss and helps people regain confidence in showing their body whether that be on the beach or beneath their suit at work.

A tummy tuck involves a surgeon cutting above the pubic line and belly button and removing the skin and fat. The muscles are then stitched together and the belly button repositioned or completely replaced. Although quite a quick procedure, after care can be intense with stays of a couple of days in hospital been required.

If the procedure is performed well, the results can be fantastic and can make the patient feel an awful lot happier about their appearance. However, unfortunately if the surgery or part of the surgery is performed negligently, the results can be physically and emotionally scarring.
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We have decades of experience in dealing with all varieties of compensation claims. When it comes to clinical negligence and cosmetic surgery negligence, our specialist teams are more than equipped to fight for your rights to claim compensation when something doesn’t go as you imagined it would. We are also one of the leading law firms who are fighting for hundreds of women for PIP breast implant compensation.

So here is a quick article about making a cosmetic surgery claim.

Do You Have a Claim?

It’s probably best for us to assess this on the phone, so you can give us a call right now on 0800 634 75 75 and we will look in to it for you. But for general guidance, to win a cosmetic surgery compensation claim we need to commonly prove one of two things:
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A UK review of cosmetic procedures has labelled dermal fillers a “cosmetic crisis waiting to happen” according to sources from the BBC. They are regulated at the same level as toothbrushes and there are considerable fears that dermal filler procedures could cause lasting damage to patients.

With the PIP scandal still fresh in our minds as thousands of women are still battling clinics and credit providers for compensation after being fitted with poor standard implants filled with industrial grade silicon, we’re all aware that the whole cosmetic surgery industry is poorly regulated.

It seems that the companies administering these treatments are putting profits over patients, with procedures like dermal fillers and Botox readily available on the high street and as simple to access as nipping to your hairdressers for highlights. Reviews have indicated that there are no checks on surgeons and ‘buy one get one free’ kinds of special offers are rife on the high street.
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Dermabrasion is a treatment used to help repair and refinish the top layers of the skin. This is done through a method of controlled surgical scraping. The purpose of the treatment is to soften the edges of surface irregularities which can give the skin a smoother appearance. Dermabrasion is most commonly used to improve the look of facial skin left scarred by accidents or previous surgery. It can also be used to remove pre-cancerous growths. Dermabrasion can be used on small areas of skin or on the entire face. A dermabrasion can be undertaken as a lone procedure or it can be done in conjunction with other procedures such as a facelift, scar removal etc.

This is of course classed as a cosmetic procedure in most instances. The treatment (a dermabrasion) can cause a lot of bleeding and this can lead to scarring or pigment changes. The healing process can be a number of months. There are risks with any surgery but if you can prove that your cosmetic surgeon was negligent and that this negligence caused you an injury, then you are likely to be able to make a compensation claim.
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We live in a world where appearance is everything. We also live in a world where science and medicine have developed to such an extent that suffering from even the most severe injuries can still lead to surgeons putting you in a position with a fairly good quality of life (I’ve had my knee pretty much entirely reconstructed; rewind a hundred years ago, I’d have had it amputated!)

So when you combine the need for looking great with the technology we have today, cosmetic surgery is now increasingly popular amongst anyone with enough of a disposable income to afford it. It is now so readily available that it isn’t just the celebs that are having work doesn’t to look as good as possible. In fact, many people take out loans or use credit to be able to afford cosmetic surgery.
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The quest for longer, thicker more volumised eyelashes has become much easier to achieve these days through the availability of temporary fake eyelashes, eyelash tinting, and of course eyelash extensions. In this blog I hope to address the latter two, as these procedures unfortunately can result in injury.
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Many of us visit hair and beauty salons on a regular basis in order to keep ourselves looking good. Having different treatments and using numerous different products on our hair and bodies in order to give us an extra treat. However, you may not have considered what to do if it all goes wrong.
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