Botox and a sandwich please
One of my colleagues has taken to popping into our local dentist surgery to get Botox injections on her lunch break, saying she can be back within 45 minutes, feeling and looking years younger. Now, I have no problem with plastic surgery; my blog is a testament to that, I suppose! But I find the idea of popping out for a quick appointment to have someone inject my face with poison, before picking up my lunch and some office cleaning supplies a little bit weird.
Maybe I’m making too much of it. After all, Botox jabs or dermal filler injections, which are another popular non-invasive procedure, are hardly nose jobs, or boob jobs or liposuction. There is no anaesthetic involved, little chance of any side effects (despite the presence of a deadly toxin!) and can be administered by people with only a few days training who have little or no medical experience.
Ah! There you go. That’s the problem I have with these lunch hour therapies. Fair enough, my colleague is getting hers done at a dentist’s surgery, where at least you know that the person sticking a needle into your face has some medical training and will hopefully know what to do if you are one of the few people who has an adverse reaction to the substance in the needle. The fact that you can also have these injections at beauty salons is more worrying, and something that I think should be addressed. OK, practitioners have to go for proper training before they are allowed to offer the service, but I’d be worried about their medical knowledge if there was a problem, and also about their scruples in allowing a client to return time and again for a treatment they don’t really need. After all, these are all businesses looking to make money, so they’re not going to turn paying customers away. Even if they should for the sake of their health….
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