Keep Yourself Safe When Choosing Aesthetic Treatments

The recent documentary series by Olivia Attwood highlighted how confusing it can be knowing how to choose who and where to get your aesthetic treatments from, and how safe they are.

Here are your 10 top tips to keep you safe and informed...

1. Choose a medical practitioner. Although there is no regulation in the Aesthetics industry here in the UK a medical practitioner is accountable to a registration body that produces guidelines and a duty of care that practitioners are required to adhere to or risk losing their registration and their careers. Medical practitioners are also covered by medical insurance giving you further protection if there is a problem. Whilst not all medical practitioners are of the same standard and all vary in their style of practice you are safer in the care of a  medically trained professional.
2. Ask your practitioner if they are part of a complications management group. These groups offer regular date training in the management of complications.
3. Ask your practitioner about the products they are using and the treatments they are recommending. Where do the products come from? What’s in them? What are the side effects and risks? What is the evidence?
4. Ask about your practitioners’ qualifications. Medical practitioners will have university certificates, they should also have training certification for all the treatments they are carrying out. Non-medics can call themselves practitioners, even advanced aesthetic practitioners but they cannot be CQC regulated or prescribe or hold a medical degree.