Disturbing, alarming, catastrophic: clandestine filler injections on the rise in France, an extremely worrying phenomenon...
We must say STOP to this practice.
In recent months, Botox and hyaluronic acid injections have increasingly been performed outside of a medical setting, with all the dangers that this entails.
On the rise since the health crisis, thousands of patients are resorting to these illegal procedures. As a reminder, those who perform these injections risk two years in prison and a €30,000 fine for illegally practicing medicine, which speaks volumes about the seriousness of their actions, given the marginality and precariousness in which they operate.
Illegal beauty centers in every city offer quick injections at low prices (in cash...) between €150 and €200...These are low-cost, unapproved products purchased online. When you consider that the average purchase price of a vial of "normal" botulinum toxin or a syringe of hyaluronic acid is €90, you have to wonder how anyone can charge between €150 and €200 for several syringes. These products are injected everywhere by these medical outcasts: lips, nose, forehead, cheeks, chin, buttocks...
Do not allow toxic substances to be injected into your body, where they will remain permanently, with dramatic short-term and long-term consequences.
It's a disaster! Every week, we see serious infections and major inflammatory reactions caused by these "low-cost" injections in our offices. This dramatic phenomenon seems to be growing on Instagram, where offers are flourishing. Shameless strangers are posing as doctors to lure naive people into their traps... Some claim to be nurses (nurses have neither the right nor the training to perform these procedures), others claim to be beauticians, and others, with fake diplomas, claim to have received training.
The authorities have been notified (DGCCRF, Ministry of Health, ARS, etc.) but are slow to respond. Remember the PIP prosthesis scandal!
You have been warned,
Don't be the next victims.
Dr. Christian Marinetti Plastic Surgeon President of SAS Clinique Phénicia