Beauty injections with anything

Why do women become guinea pigs in tests of new cosmetic facial fillers? Dozens of these drugs have not even received the approval of the regulatory authorities and increase the risk of becoming a victim of plastic surgery.

In the UK alone, beauty salons and plastic surgery clinics use today 146 competitors Botox . Of these, the approval of the Office for the Control of Drugs and Food USA (in the UK there are no such agencies) have all six ... Facial fillers ! It turns out that 140 women injected drugs at their own risk. But this is not new slippers - experiments with subcutaneous injections could end very badly.

Anna McIntyre was confident 43-year-old woman, and now she has to close her hands mouth when she speaks. Two years ago, Anna made a fatal mistake - the pilot decided to use a filler to increase the volume of lips. The effect was achieved, but the lips are so swollen that it caused laceration. Above the upper lip formed red veins. "I can not believe that destroyed his own appearance in an attempt to look more beautiful," - going through Anna, became victim of plastic surgery .

Alas, her case is not an exception. According to the statistics firm Mintel, the market value Facial fillers   per year in the UK alone is 1, 7 billion pounds.

Consultant plastic surgeon Nigel Mercer, a former president of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons, said that any product in the country is allowed to use, for as long as is CE marked (mark of conformity to standards (EN standards) and security, which are determined by the Directives of the European Union) . "However, once the product has received this purely formal brand, then no incentive to conduct further research remains," - says Dr. Mercer.

This means that the guinea pigs are millions of women who want to look beautiful.

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