With more and more people now going in for cosmetic and aesthetic surgery, concerned experts are of the opinion that patients are being put under a lot of danger by doctors who take advantage of the "lack of regulations" and are driven by "professional greed".

President of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, Nigel Mercer has been quick to call the cosmetic surgery industry an "unregulated mess", while asking for revised and tighter rules and control. Issues like "two-for-one offer" and untested products are something that in particular needs to be checked according to him.

His opinion is supported by several senior doctors who have penned their concerns in the Clinical Risk Journal.

In a special addition of the journal, which was published by the Royal Society of Medicine, doctors from all over the country and abroad have shared their growing concern about the way things are proceeding in the cosmetic surgery field. Editor Dr. Harvey Marcovitch said there was no area of medicine where UK patients were more in need of protection.

With year-on-year number of people going for cosmetic surgery rapidly rising, it has become highly essential to ensure that proper care and safety measures are adopted. Authorities are now looking at stricter regulations in wake of the warnings issued.