Prof. Tremolada in Panorama: safety and expertise in aesthetic surgery

Throughout 2025, several deaths related to aesthetic surgery procedures have brought safety in operating rooms back to the center of debate. The cases involve patients who were victims of liposuctions and rhinoplasties performed by unqualified professionals or in facilities without authorization. Many wrong choices stem from relying on low prices or social media instead of verifying credentials and facilities.

Prof. Carlo Tremolada, scientific director of Image Regenerative Clinic, distinguishes between predictable complications — which a good surgeon must anticipate through careful medical history and team preparation — and unpredictable ones, which a prepared team can nonetheless manage. Errors such as intestinal perforation during liposuction, he emphasizes, "are not even part of unpredictable complications: they must not exist." Prof. Oreste Claudio Buonomo adds that safety is structured on three levels: clinical, environmental, and instrumental, and that both surgical clinics and operating rooms, if certified, guarantee the same legal standards. The final message is clear: seeking beauty is legitimate, but doing so without evaluating the surgeon's preparation, facility, and instrumentation is a risk not worth one's life.