How should Utah regulate the pursuit of beauty?

BY KIRSTEN STEWART
The Salt Lake Tribune

... Salt Lake plastic surgeon Renato Saltz, former president of The American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, supports tougher rules — and more patient education.

Across the country, untrained professionals, some of them doctors, are doing injections, liposuction, even tummy tucks, he said. And the problem is getting worse, fueled by new technologies “and the recession, which is driving people to seek out quick cash with total disregard to patient safety,” Saltz says. ...