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Plastic surgeons are calling for a ban on consumer fireworks and a crackdown on illegal fireworks as more teens suffered life-changing injuries. Some 90% of firework injuries this year were due to illegal fireworks and half of those needing plastic surgery were 18 or under, the association of plastic surgeons NVPC said. “Surgeons have had to amputate five hands, 18 …

During the turn of the new year this past weekend, plastic surgeons were needed to treat roughly the same number of fireworks victims with serious injuries as in the years before the coronavirus pandemic. "Just like in previous years," illegal fireworks were the biggest culprit, the NVPC concluded on the basis of a survey among plastic surgeons in the country. …

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A Dutch woman died in Turkey on Monday after a Brazilian Butt Lift surgery, the plastic surgeon in Turkey and the Dutch organization that assisted the woman confirmed to RTL Nieuws. The Dutch organization advises women who travel to Turkey for cosmetic surgery. It is a hazardous surgery that the Dutch society for plastic surgery NVPC and the Dutch society …

Plastic surgeons say they are treating more cases of ‘avocado hand’, or injuries caused by people using sharp knives to remove the stone in the popular foodstuff. The umbrella organisation for plastic surgeons NVPC does not have the exact figures but surgeons have reported seeing ‘several cases a week’ and the increase is such that a warning is in order, …

During the coronavirus lockdown, emergency rooms saw a peak in people who got injured while doing odd jobs around the house, the Dutch associations for hand surgery NVvH and plastic surgery NVPC said on Wednesday. A total of 152 people ended up in an emergency room with serious to very serious DIY-related injuries, De Telegraaf reports. About 20 percent of …