1 in 100 laser treatments go wrong!!!

I was astounded when I saw the stats given by the UK Mirror story on their website (July 22nd, 2008)....

"Around 340,000 laser treatments are currently performed in the UK every year – with an estimated one in every hundred going wrong."

That completely blows me away. Imagine any other beauty treatment where there is a failure rate that high.

But it's not just like having a bad makeup job, or a bad haircut.

The person quoted in the article had 2nd degree burns after a laser hair removal treatment on her legs and bikini line. That is serious stuff.

There have got to be better ways to remove hair.

And for a clinic to provide nothing better than aloe vera is awful.

That the UK is thinking of relaxing standards rather than improving them is incredible.

What's wrong with this picture?