“For too long, all regulation has been completely absent in the aesthetic industry and there are too many accounts of women who have had their lives destroyed by dishonest companies or cosmetic practitioners,” said the secretary of cosmetics on Saturday evening. State to Health of Great Britain.
Almost 50,000 women in the UK and over 300,000 worldwide are believed to have PIP implants. “This must change, which is why we are taking important steps to crack down on aesthetic cowboys,” he added, announcing the upcoming creation, in his country, of the first national register of prosthetic implantations. breasts.
This register will be tested from next month: all breast implants will be listed there, as well as hip or knee prostheses, which already are. This decision follows the scandal of PIP prostheses for which the founder of the poly-implant prosthesis company was sentenced to four years in prison and a fine of 75,000 euros. British health authorities believe that around 50,000 women in the UK may have PIP implants but since private cosmetic surgery clinics do not keep records, most of them have been unable to. tell their patients if they had silicone implants from PIP. The specialized register was long overdue on the other side of the Channel, especially since in this country cosmetic surgery is booming with 10,000 breast augmentation operations performed each year.
In France, the French Society of Reconstructive and Aesthetic Plastic Surgery is currently working on the development of a national register on which health professionals can enter the data of the operations they perform.
