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Cosmetic surgery: medicolegal considerations
Mauro Piras1, Paola Delbon2, Adelaide Conti2
1Department of Surgery, Radiology and Public Health, Public Health and Humanities Section, University of Brescia Italy - Forensic Medicine Institute, 25123 Brescia, Italy.
Abstract:
Cosmetic surgery is one of the two branches of plastic surgery. The characteristic of non-necessity of this surgical speciality implies an increased severity in the evaluation of the risk-benefit balance. Therefore, great care must be taken in providing all the information necessary in order to obtain valid consent to the intervention. We analyzed judgments concerning cosmetic surgery found in national legal databases. A document of National Bioethics Committee (CNB) was also analyzed.
Conclusion:
The receipt of valid, informed consent is of absolute importance not only to legitimise the medical-surgical act, but it also represents the key element in the question concerning the existence of an obligation to achieve certain results/use of certain methods in the cosmetic surgery.
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