Injections of hyaluronic acid can lead to serious consequences, aesthetically but also from a health point of view, with clogged arteries or necrosis. The victim of a false practitioner testifies on BFMTV.
“My face was not uniform”. After her injection of hyaluronic acid, a service she booked on Instagram with a British practitioner, Sarah realizes that the expected result is not happening. Her face remains swollen, even after several days… Which makes her understand that she has been the victim of the scam of a fake practitioner.
27-year-old Sarah wanted to have hyaluronic acid injections in anticipation of a 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.
“It doesn’t really look like a cabinet”
As soon as she arrives, Sarah notices that the injections are done “in sequence”. “There was a girl before me, a girl after me, and that’s when I started to ask myself questions (…) it doesn’t really look like a cabinet”. Despite her feelings, she still decides to proceed with the injections.
Forty minutes later and after having paid 700 euros, she comes out of the office with a swollen face, but the practitioner reassures her, telling her that it is a normal reaction which will subside in the coming days. But days pass and she sees no improvement. “Basically, it must be quite subtle, quite light”, assures Sarah.
“There, my face was not uniform, I had one side that was different from the other,” she recalls.
“My lip was going to explode”
Concerned by 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 she had “a lot” of hyaluronic acid in her face, with 4 ml in her lips, while the norm is more around 1 ml. “My lip was actually going to explode, clearly.”
Victim of a false practitioner, Sarah will have to pay 1300 euros to find her face before. Unfortunately, these practices are spreading and fake practitioners creating profiles on social networks, where it is very easy to contact them, are not uncommon.
Suspected stroke, loss of sight…
This phenomenon worries the National Syndicate of Reconstructive and Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, which sees in it a real danger for the health of patients. False practitioners “do not know the anatomy”, regrets Dr. Adel Louafi, president of the union.
“They can inject into arteries, into nerves (…) it can cause necrosis,” he warns.
Dr. Adel Louafi even recounts cases with “suspected cerebrovascular accidents (CVA)”. A poorly performed clandestine injection can also lead to “loss of vision” and other lifelong sequelae.
