Women have been left physically and mentally scarred after dermal filler complications, The Ferret has found as part of an investigation into the lack of regulation on non-surgical beauty treatments.
Dermal fillers are substances injected into people’s faces to fill lines and wrinkles, and add volume to lips and cheeks. The fillers have become increasingly popular in recent years and – according to a government-approved register of accredited practitioners called SaveFace – are almost as normal as “someone getting their nails done”.
But complications from
dermal fillers are common and include allergies, bleeding, bruising, swelling, infection, and even blindness. SaveFace received almost 3,000 complaints in 2022, with over two-thirds relating to dermal fillers and almost a quarter relating to botulinum toxin (botox), an injection which relaxes face muscles to smooth out lines and wrinkles.
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