#BODY MODS GONE WRONG PROFESSIONAL#

Professional Tattooing Association of Australia SA spokeswoman Morag Draper said the surgeries were legal for adults. 'It's important that bookings are made in advance because if it's a permanent body modification you really need to think about it and be sure,' she said. Modify employee Harmony Capper said he was always booked out for the duration of his stay.

City-based Modify Body Piercings has hosted a Canadian professional body modification practitioner for three week-long stints since opening in 2009. The Sunday Mail does not know where the surgeries were performed. There are no laws in South Australia outlawing body modification for adults. The patients who I've seen were required to go to the operating theatre to have implants removed because of the severity of the infection.' 'Some patients have required intensive care treatment and these complications ultimately can cause death if not treated in a timely manner. 'The RAH plastic surgery team are very concerned with the number of patients they are seeing with adverse outcomes from body modification surgeries,' Miss Curtis said. The RAH's plastic surgery unit also had treated several other cases in the past 12 months. RAH emergency department nurse practitioner Melissa Curtis said she had treated two people with complications from silicon implants this year.

Police were called to investigate one incident involving the hospitalisation of a young woman at the RAH this month.Д®xtreme modification techniques include tongue-splitting, scarification, branding and having implants put under the skin. RAH staff said they were alarmed at a 'surge' in cases at its emergency department from extreme modifications. Many of the modification procedures carried out in South Australia are performed by international professional 'skin artists' during fly-in visits. MEDICAL professionals are dealing with a surge of backyard 'body-modification' surgeries gone wrong, with two people needing intensive care for infections.

Body mods gone wrong