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Botox injections to prevent wrinkles and lip fillers to give bigger lips are amongst the non-surgical treatments that under 18s will no longer be able to get in the UK following a government ban.

There's concern that the Instagram culture of selfies is encouraging young people to take up cheap offers of treatment from unqualified and unregulated practitioners - who often advertise on social media.

Britain's Department of Health and Social Care suggests there were up to 29,300 dermal filler procedures (lip fillers) for under-18s in the UK in 2017.

Anna Collinson, the 蜜芽传媒's Health correspondent, described one young woman's experience.

"The needle went in and she described this moment where she could see the practitioner's face - a look of horror went across her face - and then she could feel blood trickling down her face... The practitioner had effectively punctured an artery in her lip which caused her lip to swell and inflate and go black."

(Photo: Stock image of a woman having lip augmentation injection. Credit: Getty Images)

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