‘It’s not what I want the world to be’: Londoners on botched surgery abroad
We ask Londoners about cosmetic surgery abroad, and botched operations are being treated on the NHS.
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00:00I've thought about going away and getting my teeth done before, but I wouldn't expect the NHS to pay for it if it went wrong.
00:07But I guess, you know, we probably would expect the NHS to do something.
00:13But yeah, cosmetic surgery is another one. It's just not really part of what I want the world to be like, you know.
00:23I think it's probably more an issue of the current state of the NHS and the sort of underfunding there's been over many years that is forcing people to go overseas to get surgery.
00:33And maybe as well, it reflects on society's desire to think about how we look maybe more than we ought to.
00:41I don't know. I like to think that the internet means that everyone's got a lot more information on the surgeons they go to and the kind of things that they access.
00:51But it also means that bad plastic surgery practices are kind of becoming popular, like turkey teeth.