An Industry Facelift

Posted By American Med Spa Association, Wednesday, January 3, 2018

As celebrities drive up demand for plastic surgery and other cosmetic procedures, more doctors, dentists and even businesspeople who aren't plastic surgeons are getting in the game.

That's raising questions about whether the procedures are properly supervised and complaints from plastic surgeons that they're increasingly being called on to fix others' shoddy work.

The "increasing democratization of cosmetic surgery" is causing problems in plastic surgeons' business models and bad medical outcomes for some patients, said Vikram Reddy, M.D., a plastic surgeon and chief of clinical integration at Henry Ford Macomb Hospital.
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