Lee joo-il, intern
Recently, the chinese consumers ' association issued a consumption alert reminding parents and underage consumers of the need for medical care. Legal sources have suggested that “there are two special features that should be included in the legal regulation of the acceptance of plastic surgery by minors, namely, that plastic surgery for pure beauty purposes should be prohibited in principle, with the exception of conditions, and that publicity and publicity should be avoided, including the use of minors as advocates of foreign nationals who are adults abroad but still minors in china”
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During the summer, a number of minors chose to undergo a medical exercise, and a number of medical institutions focused on minors, students and associate students, attracting their eyes through various marketing methods。
In recent years, the health-care beauty industry has not lost its heat, and its beauty is no longer the choice of “advanced age”. According to the white paper for the medical american industry 2022, published on the basis of new oxygen from the medical american platform, in the first quarter of 2022 the proportion of medical american consumers under the age of 20 was 11. 12 per cent, with new phenomena such as pre-age medical consumption. What are the risks to the health of minors and how should safety be ensured
Young people have physical anxiety
The physical anxiety is affecting the group of minors. Moot posted on the internet a recollection, “the english language teacher at the junior high school, seeing my nose say, `xx has a big nose.'”, and she felt that she didn't hate her teacher for it, but “it's been a few years since she remembered her words”. She shared her experience: in junior high school, girls were nicknamed ugly by boys, and the malice did not disappear after plastic surgery, and even after graduation, they continued to laugh at her changes。
When he was 17 years old, he began to contact the doctor, and in his third year of high school he had had two eye-skin surgeries, injections of urea, etc. “at that time, my mother asked me what i wanted, and i said i wanted to put my eyelids, and then my parents paid together, and i did it.” on the question of “why”, coco was quite clear: “i have been putting my eyelids on since junior high school, and i have to do them every day, and i feel like i have good eyelids and i feel not very pretty and confident.” now that ko is 24 years old, she no longer acts frequently as self-confidence grows and awareness of medical projects increases。
In addition to physical anxiety, minors face the impact of new forms of marketing. The pharmacological app mixes advertising content with vegan integrative cases, displaying on the front screen, along with technical-type tests such as the free “simulation two-eyskin” “ai skin test”, as well as a large number of “new people's preferences” such as “one year's missed” to attract the eyes of young people. In addition, some of the advertisements appear on various social platforms in the form of individual sharing, and some have even become areas of serious exposure to false information. It is difficult to distinguish between real and fake minors。
According to the deputy director of orthopaedic surgery at the orthopaedic hospital of the chinese academy of medical sciences, there are two types of medical treatment for summer students, namely, pure beauty surgery, and deformative treatment, such as detoxification, body murmurs and orthotic treatment of upper lip deformities, nose malformations, etc. Teenage surgery is currently dominated by malformation. “young people do beauty projects, often because deformities affect their children’s mental health. These minor beauty seekers usually have little time and only time off for surgery”。
It is undeniable that there is a need for medical projects for minors. Medical beauty projects can provide appropriate redress for some of the children who are born with regret. "as a junior high school student has been scarred by boiling water since he was a kid, he has been with liu hai for over a decade. After the operation, liu hai was slowly combed up... Running from a child with hair on his face, without participating in a group show, without a medal, without fear of being seen as a `bad face', can now finally look up and enjoy a sudden wind.”
You should think twice about the health of minors
The physical and mental development of minors is premature, and there are significant safety risks associated with premature medical consumption, which must be rethought. Wang keming does not recommend pure beauty surgery for minors. “medically speaking, minors are still growing and developing in a non-stable state, and larger surgical programmes may even affect the growth and development of five officials.” he pointed out that the medical beauty project was a flowering exercise. Although minors are accompanied by their parents to consult with their eyes, nose, etc., wang kming points out that the recovery of the eye, nose, etc. Is longer and involves a variety of options, which are generally recommended after going to university。
Dr. Fan giang, director of orthopaedic surgery at the beijing hoang hospital, university of medical sciences, stated that in many cases minors could not do complex medical beauty projects in medical terms. “for example, if they had ribed their noses before the age of 16, they would have affected the development of their ribs first, and second, if their nose had developed again several years later, they would have developed deformed and deformed.” wang kming met a similar beauty seeker, “she had a pimping procedure when she was young, and after a few years, it was less than expected and more difficult to repair”
The health-care beauty industry involves a wide range of issues, such as professionalism, safety and aesthetics, even among adults, and the aesthetics of minors are changing, with less economic capacity, less information screening and less resistance to medical and economic risks。
When ko was performing a comprehensive nose surgery, he was hit by a “roll over”: “i did not ask for the help of my parents, nor even told a few friends.” she went to a medical facility to extract blood, laboratory tests and surgery, and eventually signed a twenty-four instalment agreement of $128,000. “a young man didn't know much about rights. When i went to the clinic, the doctor told me to make it more expensive. The first time i didn't do it, the prosthesis got crooked in the nose and went to them and told me it would take some time to redo it, and i couldn't do it, so i went back and looked for it in a year or two and the institution was gone.”
Recently, the chinese consumers ' association issued a consumption alert reminding parents and underage consumers of the need for medical care. It refers to the choice of regular medical facilities for minors when attending a medical clinic, in accordance with medical instructions, the age indicated and the professional assessment and reasonable advice given by the attending physician from the point of view of physical health and normal development. At the same time, parents and young consumers must consult the medical programme, the contract and the details of the fees, before the operation, and communicate with the attending physician in detail, taking into account their objective needs and physical development, with a view to obtaining a full picture of the content of the project and the risks and taboos involved. It is essential that certain informal health-care institutions take advantage of the “one dollar medical experience” of marketing and “entry” of young consumers to market projects and products and induce them to borrow or pay in instalments on loan platforms, and that consumers do not listen blindly to the words of such institutions。
According to wang, the number of health-care beauty centres is increasing, and public and private institutions are able to take care of them, provided that they are regular and qualified. “if the operation is not performed properly, it will entail a heavy burden of post-repair and psychological trauma, which will require longer periods of psychological recovery.” he stressed that most of the problems ended up as medical security issues。
He suggested that consumers consult more doctors to give a full account of their needs, compare the programmes offered by different doctors, and objectively evaluate which treatment is more in line with expectations, and avoid being blindly operated because of the lack of transparency of information. “in addition, consumer mentalities have a greater impact on the operation programme and its results, such as the fact that consumers choose informal channels instead of performing non-conventional surgical programmes, which may be difficult to repair when they are finished
Raise the legal umbrella for minors
At present, the laws and regulations of the country provide for the medical beauty of adolescents, and article 20 of the act on the management of medical beauty services, which has been in force since 1 may 2002, states that “no medical beauty project shall be carried out for persons who are incapable of acting or have restricted capacity without the consent of their guardian”. The local regulations contain similar provisions. In 2014, the city of guangzhou issued the regulations on the protection of minors in guangzhou city, which state, firstly, that the medical well-being of minors requires the consent of their legal guardians. The shanghai regulations for the protection of minors and the beijing regulations for the protection of minors (revised) of 2022 clearly stipulate that no institution may provide medical beauty services to minors without the consent of the minor's parents or other guardians。
In addition, the guide to the enforcement of health-care advertising, published by the general directorate of market supervision in november 2021, is clear and focuses on combating situations that run counter to good social conditions, create “morphological anxiety”, inappropriately link poor appearances to negative evaluation factors such as “incompetent” “loan” “poverty” or inappropriately link appearances to positive evaluation factors such as “incumbent” “success”. A model copy of the beijing medical cosmetary services contract (preliminary) issued jointly by the beijing municipal health council and the municipal market supervisory authority also emphasizes that beauty health facilities “shall not create physical anxiety”。
In recent years, the issue of adolescent health has also become a focus of attention at both national levels. In 2020, the national people's congress, on behalf of liaohua, recommended that “adolescents should not be allowed to perform plastic surgery except for congenital defects requiring medical prosthesis”. In 2022, concordant hu wei also presented a proposal at two national meetings to “promise the prohibition of non-necessary medical surgery for children under 18 years of age”。
The newly amended law on the protection of minors (which came into force on 1 june 2021) explicitly requires the elaboration of restrictions on the medical beauty of minors. From the local to the national level, the gradual refinement of restrictions on the health care of minors and the tightening of regulations governing the health-care beauty industry have accelerated the process of legalizing and regularizing the health care of minors。
The law has not always encouraged young people to engage in matters other than those based on their own intellectual and physical development, including medical beauty and plastic surgery. Although young people have developed a preliminary understanding and understanding of the objective society and the world, their mental and intellectual development is not yet fully developed and they are susceptible to publicity, and the law should therefore adopt a conservative attitude towards plastic and medical projects of pure beauty properties, based on the available medical technology。
In his view, two special features of a minor's acceptance of a plastic project should be regulated by law, namely, that the means of plastic surgery for purely cosmetic purposes should be prohibited in principle, with the exception of conditions, and that publicity and promotion should be avoided, including the use of minors ' advocacy, including foreign advocates who are adults abroad but still minors in china. In addition, hondo suggested that the system of protection for minors could be developed through the establishment of a system of regulations to regulate access to, practice standards and regulatory standards for, inter alia, medical and cosmetic services for young people, such as a system of principled prohibitions and exceptions to the requirements for medical and plastic surgery。
(accorded to the interviewer's request by a medical consumer)
