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New regulation seeks to crack down on nurses and beauticians administering Botox in the United Kingdom

During the past ten years Botox clinics have sprung up on every high street and back alleyway in town. To date there has been poor regulation of the industry and anyone from nurses, to even beauticians, have been carrying out such treatment. In many cases the ‘practitioners’ have only been on a single day course before setting up shop and carrying out the potentially dangerous injections themselves.

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New research has shown that some Asian children feel under pressure to look more like their Western counterparts and are turning to cosmetic surgery to achieve their desired look.

There has always been a lot of debate surrounding what the minimum age for elective plastic surgery should be – particularly over parents who give their teenage children permission to have cosmetic surgery, and these latest findings are likely to promote a lot more debate on the industry.

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Teeth whitening procedures are a popular form of cosmetic enhancement, however new research shows that there may be severe side effects associated with some treatments.

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A pill which is said to help slimmers drop a dress size within weeks of starting treatment will be available in the UK without prescription in the next few weeks.

The alli pill costs is already for sale in some European countries.

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The ‘Simon Cowell effect’ hits the country as 43% want to change their teeth

Britons are down in the dumps about the way they look. A national survey released yesterday revealed that three quarters of the population are unhappy with their appearance and would like to change something about themselves.

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Every year thousands of people undergo successful Cosmetic Surgery procedures with reputable surgeons. However, there are unfortunately cases where surgeons do not live up to their reputations and surgeries can go wrong.

For people that have taken the major decision to undergo surgery to then have to face an unsuccessful result can be hugely upsetting. For many they have put aside money to pay for the procedure and spent many weeks and months thinking about whether surgery is the right decision for them.

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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Latisse as a treatment for enhancing and improving eyelash prominence.

Bimatoprost was initially used to help patients with glaucoma however users of the drug soon found that one of the side-effects was that their eyelashes grew thicker, longer and darker. A more detailed analysis found that eyelashes treated with the gel grew around 2mm in 6 weeks, around twice as long as those using a placebo.

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