Many Dutch people suffer mutilations during cosmetic procedures abroad. More and more victims report to Stichting Slachtoffers Cosmetic Doctors after a failed procedure.
The reason for the operations abroad is the low prices in Eastern European countries, Turkey or neighboring Belgium. The consequences of such a risky procedure are often forgotten.
Russian Roulette
The people who like such a beauty operation want to undergo, fly abroad on their own initiative. Only to be quickly sent home after a serious operation – which was paid black by the way. Once home, all kinds of complications to. 'Russian roulette', says Sylvia Veerman, of the Foundation for Victims of Cosmetic Doctors.
Most reports that come in to the Foundation are about facelifts, nose and eyelid corrections † Also complaints about filler treatments , whereby wrinkles are injected, flow in, says Irene Mathijssen, president of the Dutch Association for Plastic Surgery.
For the time being, there is also no uniform European regulation. The differences in laws between the countries are still too great.
