charter for those under the age of 18
Beauty is the demand of every girl so that she strives to be attractive and beautiful even if she is forced to change her features with injections and plastic surgery, and this is what made a large number of girls under the age of 18 resort to beauty clinics in search of beauty.
There is no medical charter for cosmetic operations
The consultant plastic surgery of the skin, Dr. Muhammad Al-Sufyani, told us: Unfortunately, there is no medical charter that prohibits plastic surgery or the use of filler and botox injections, because some cases are cosmetic for the sake of treatment.
However, most Western countries have a law that provides for allowing the use of Botox for those aged 18 years and over. Here in Saudi Arabia, we are in line with the American Food and Drug Administration, and we do not allow injection of needles until after 18 years.
We do not know the minimum age for injection
In the same context, consultant plastic and reconstructive surgery, Dr. Haitham Jamjoom, confirmed that there is no medical charter in Saudi Arabia that prohibits cosmetic operations for those under the age of eighteen.
And Dr. Jamjoom added: We, as doctors, the prevailing custom among us, is that people under 18 years of age should not be injected, and we have a reservation that we prevent injections during pregnancy and lactation. There is a fear that there will be complications, because there is no study about it that shows the extent of safety or complications.
20% of girls under 18 years of age undergo plastic surgery
Plastic specialist Dr. Yara Abdel Moneim indicated that, unfortunately, there are girls whose age does not exceed 15 years, at a rate of more than 20%, who come with the mother or father in order to inject fillers, cosmetic injections and imitate social media stars, who unfortunately have become an example for some, (there is Whoever wants her nose to become like a woman and she wants to blow her lips like so-and-so), without realizing that what they are doing may endanger their natural beauty and turn them into monster figures from some famous people.
About the most frequent requests of girls who come to the clinic, she says: Most of them ask for lip augmentation, and rectifying the nose with fillers.
The doctor concluded her speech with advice for the girls and says: Preserve your natural beauty.
Young girls seeking artificial beauty
Rima Tawfiq, a high school student, under 16 years old, says I want to have lip augmentation. To give me a more beautiful view, like my mother, but she unfortunately refuses, on the pretext that I am still young.
Alia Samer, a 17-year-old young woman, says: I do not like the appearance of my nose and I want to inject it with a filler, but unfortunately when I visited a doctor in her clinic she refused to give me an injection because of my young age, and she told me that the injection of the filler might be unsafe for me, but now I think about going to another doctor from Order an injection or a cosmetic procedure.
Law Opinion: The Global Charter prohibits performing cosmetic surgeries for those under the age of 18:
Lawyer and legal advisor Abdul Karim Al-Qadhi clarifies and informs us of the International Islamic Charter of Medical and Health Ethics, saying: The responsibility and duties of doctors towards patients and towards the entire community have been clarified, and not to perform actions that harm the patient, especially those under eighteen in the event of lack of awareness and full awareness, or to contradict The provisions of the charter in what is mentioned in Articles 27, which stipulates that doctors who provide treatment to patients who have not reached the age of majority shall work to enlighten them of the nature of the medical procedure or intervention, each according to his capabilities and Article 28 stipulates that the doctor when treating a child must be a defense of his interest if he so decides. That his health condition was not understood by his family or relatives, or they did not fulfill their duty towards him.
