Each breast enlargement ENTERED in the register

In the UK, they are going to create a national register of breast implants, which will contain information on each ongoing breast augmentation surgery. It is expected to help prevent scandals from using substandard materials.

Breast Enlargement

The French company Poly Implant Prothese (PIP), letting out   breast implants   from industrial silicone, it became the center of a scandal in the industry of plastic surgery, which is now changed the rules of the game. The authorities of the United Kingdom, whose citizens are among the most affected by the use of PIP, decided to tighten the work of beauty clinics, where they spend Breast Augmentation .

Breast Enlargement

Firstly, now all breast implants   and operations with them will be entered in a national registry. Since the new year in the country is also forbidden to promote operations breast augmentation   as a prize for winning in any competition. Banned prices on this procedure, limited in time (for example, "Hurry increase breast with 1 to 8 February in 80% of the price"), as well as so-called special offer for mothers and daughters who want to go through plastic surgery together.

The government decided to accept most of the recommendations of the medical director of the Fund of obligatory medical insurance of Sir Bruce Keoha. He developed these recommendations shortly after the scandal with implants PIP. The victims of defective products in Britain alone became more than 50 thousand women and only a breast augmentation with PIP passed Bole 400,000 patients worldwide.

Sir Bruce said that in private clinics beauty being insufficient reporting, so then you can not find out exactly what implants put himself woman. Now, this information will be stored in a national registry like the data on each operation to replace the hip or knee. (READ MORE)

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