Ethics, legal issues, and consent for fillers.
The huge patient demand for filler rejuvenation exposes plastic surgeons to legal issues. Plastic surgery statistics confirm a trend toward nonsurgical procedures, with a slight increase in surgical procedures overall from 2004 to 2005. Nonsurgical procedures, especially fillers, exhibited a 35% increase. Patients are seeding a quick-recovery, minimally invasive procedure that provides them maximal rejuvenation. This demand and media-driven exposure may create concerns for plastic surgeons as to patient selection and ethical, regulatory, and legal issues relating to filler choices and their use. This article addresses these concerns.
Reisman
Neal R
NR
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA. drreisman@hotmail.com
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