Clinical Risk > Volume 15, Number 6 > Pp. 224-226

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Aesthetic Surgery

France sets standards for practice of aesthetic surgery

Alain Fogli, MD

Email: alain.fogli{at}wanadoo.fr

Dr Alain Fogli is a member of the ISAPS Specialty Promotion Committee and ISAPS National Secretary for France. Dr Fogli has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Syndicate of Plastic Surgery in France for over five years. The National Syndicate is a National Union whose purpose is to protect the specialty and the Syndicate has an official spokesperson for the Government. Members of the Board of Directors are elected by French plastic surgeons. The changes initiated in France were in response to extensive publicity about cosmetic surgery that drew attention to the lack of traditional safeguards for patients. It became necessary for the Government to learn more about the field of cosmetic surgery, including its financial and safety aspects. The Government initiated an inquiry and the Syndicate was subsequently invited to participate in the writing new regulations. Dr Fogli and Dr Hepner met with the Health Minister to assist in formulating the regulations and the final proposition was put to Parliament and passed into Law.

The regulations are also designed to monitor the practice of cosmetic surgery and to avoid possible abuse.

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