This consultation seeks views on whether we should restrict the treatments to be captured through the licensing scheme to persons over the age of 18. This will be in line with existing age restrictions on botulinum toxin injections, cosmetic fillers, tattoos, website teeth whitening and sunbed use.
To what extent do you agree or disagree with the categorisation of the procedures listed in the green category?
In the next section, you will be able to give your views on the types of non-surgical cosmetic procedures that should be restricted and classed as regulated activities by CQC.
Sofwave is generally considered safe and well-tolerated. Common side effects are mild and may include temporary redness or swelling at the treatment site.”
The regulated activity of surgical procedures applies when a surgical procedure is carried out by a healthcare professional for:
carried out a drop weight test to measure cohesion. In this test, HA gels are extruded at a constant speed through a defined vertical orifice. The droplets are collected, and an average drop weight is measured.
Extrusion force is another important parameter of high clinical relevance as it relates to the force that the physician must apply to allow the HA filler to flow through the needle.
Results can typically be seen after two weeks. But for optimal results, you will need to repeat the procedure at the three and six month mark, and yearly thereafter. “Since the patient's own blood is used, there is a low chance of adverse effects,” she notes.
Follain works directly with their clients and makers to insure that all of their products are non-toxic, gentle, and safe to use, with a five-step approval process for everything that they sell.
To ensure that regulated healthcare professionals undertaking these high-risk procedures meet the required standards of safety and quality, we propose that restricted high-risk procedures should be classed as regulated activities by CQC.
By law, where services are being carried out by a healthcare professional, providers have to register with CQC if they offer:
When applied to the skin, they act as messengers, encouraging old and lazy skin cells to act ‘young’ again.
Dermal fillers are deployed to augment the face to meet the aesthetic concept of beauty, dictating that certain curves, contours, dimensions, and ratios are fulfilled in order to produce a conventionally attractive face, or to restore volumetric dimensions and hence youth in the aging face.
As mentioned above, the phase angle obtained from dynamic rheology is another parameter often quoted to advertise fillers which claim to have a “low percentage to migrate,” however no conclusive evidence has been found across the literature that supports this claim. Better methods must be put forward to measure the migration of a product.