Reading Time: <1 minuteCosmetic medicine has become a target of criticism, and there are many illegal beauty salons these days. Medical treatments performed by unqualified people... There are many illegal beauty salons in Nagoya, where I practice. They make exaggerated advertisements claiming that their treatments are effective for constipation, headaches, and eye strain. These words are disease words and can only be used by medical institutions. This is an outrageous advertisement that may violate the Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Act and the Medical Practitioners Act. Unqualified people cannot perform medical procedures, and it is illegal to convey that a treatment is effective for treating a disease. You can see on the website that this illegal beauty salon is promoting this illegal treatment under the name of an academy. Beauty salons are for relaxation. They are not treatments that treat illnesses with healing treatments. The general public may not know this, but they are lured by such slogans and visit these beauty salons. Of course, safe treatments will never be performed at beauty salons that engage in such illegal practices. Moreover, there are even more frightening suspicions about this beauty salon...

It has been discovered that a company run by the person who is believed to have developed this treatment is still openly selling HIFU, a device that violates the Medical Practitioners Act.

Was the owner of this beauty salon also deceived by the illegal business? Currently, only doctors can perform HIFU, and it is clearly illegal to sell HIFU equipment for anything other than medical equipment. In response to a series of accidents involving HIFU equipment at beauty salons and other facilities, which uses ultrasound to remove wrinkles and sagging skin, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has issued a notice to prefectures stating that if anyone other than a doctor performs the treatment, it is a violation of the Medical Practitioners Act. The aim of the notice is to prevent problems from occurring by clearly indicating that treatments must be performed by doctors only. The notice was issued on the 7th and pointed out that if anyone other than a doctor performs HIFU treatment, it is an act that may cause harm. "HIFU" to remove wrinkles and sagging skin, treatment by non-medical practitioners violates the Medical Practitioners Act...Notification from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare: Yomiuri Shimbun