However, Caroline Mills, British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (BAOMS) lead on facial aesthetic/cosmetic surgery and consultant maxillofacial surgeon at Great Ormond Street Hospital, has previously explained that the possible complications from botox or dermal filler injections are significant and can cause blindness, severe allergic reactions, chronic ongoing infection and deformity, saying, “These procedures can have significant life changing side-effects and require the competency to administer emergency medical treatment.”
Save Face, a national register of accredited practitioners who provide non-surgical treatments, says it has received more than 5,000 complaints over the past four years - and 70 per cent of them related to fillers.
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