A review of patient safety issues in the cosmetic sector after decades of devastating patient harm is long overdue,but there is a long way to go before true reform takes place.
The national medical regulator has announced a sweeping review of the multibillion-dollar cosmetic surgery industry following an investigation by the Herald and The Age.
A 42-year-old mother of three who was rushed to hospital after cosmetic surgery in November recounts her harrowing experience.
Dr Daniel Aronov has been banned by the national health regulator from performing all types of cosmetic surgery and ordered to remove his social media posts.
Submissions made to a parliamentary inquiry into the health regulator make one thing clear,the cosmetic surgery sector has exploited weak regulation,hurting patients along the way.
Sanja Kukic is among about 150 women each year who undergo breast implant removal at reconstructive surgeon Anand Deva’s Sydney practice.
A woman was found unconscious and rushed to hospital this week after receiving liposuction treatment and a tummy tuck from an associate of Dr Daniel Lanzer.
More than 100 Lanzer clinic patients have come forward to recount experiences of procedures that led to ‘putrid’ flesh,infections and excruciating pain.
It is a mistake to believe that training in cosmetic surgery happens in the ordinary course of training plastic surgeons. It does not.
The advent of “Instagram face”,and the normalisation of “mummy makeovers”,boob jobs,and now Brazilian butt lifts and “designer vaginas”,has cosmetic surgery being promoted as proudly aspirational - despite the “lack of transparency”.
The backlash has been swift after a litany of troubling practices across cosmetic surgeon Dr Daniel Lanzer’s network was uncovered.