“My face was not uniform.” After her hyaluronic acid injection, a service she booked on Instagram with a British doctor, Sarah realizes that she is not having the expected result. Her face is still swollen, even after several days… Which makes her understand that she has been the victim of a fake practitioner’s scam.
Sarah, 27, wanted to get hyaluronic acid injections before a photo shoot a few months ago. She then goes to the Instagram social network and contacts an English practitioner who performs this type of service in Paris.
“Doesn’t really look like a cabinet”
As soon as she arrives, Sarah notes that the injections are being done “in sequence”. “There was a girl before me, a girl after me, and that’s when I started asking myself questions (…) it doesn’t really look like a cabinet.” Despite her feelings, she still decides to continue with the injections.
Forty minutes later and after having paid 700 euros, she leaves the office with a swollen face, but the practitioner reassures her, telling her that it is a normal reaction that will subside in the coming days. But the days go by and she doesn’t see any improvement. “Basically, it needs to be pretty subtle, pretty light,” Sarah says.
“There my face was not uniform, it had one side different from the other,” he recalls.
“My lip was going to explode”
Concerned about the situation and its lack of favorable development, the young woman went to see a specialist doctor in Paris. Shocked, he told her, according to her, that he had “a lot” of hyaluronic acid on his face, with 4 ml on his lips, when the normal thing is around 1 ml. “My lip was actually going to explode, clearly.”
Victim of a false practitioner, Sarah will have to pay 1,300 euros to find her face first. Unfortunately, these practices are spreading and it is not uncommon for fake practitioners to create profiles on social networks, where it is very easy to contact them.
Suspected stroke, loss of sight…
This phenomenon worries the National Union of Reconstructive and Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, which sees in it a real danger to the health of patients. The false practitioners “do not know the anatomy”, laments Dr. Adel Louafi, president of the union.
“They can be injected into the arteries, into the nerves (…) it can cause necrosis,” he warns.
Dr. Adel Louafi even reports cases with “suspected cerebrovascular accidents (CVA)”. A poorly performed clandestine injection can also cause “loss of vision” and other lifelong sequelae.
Source: BFM TV
