The Federal Agency for Medicine and Health Products have forbidden us to provide information about medicines (like Botox, Dysport, cortisone ointments, etc.) and medical instruments like fillers (Radiesse, Restylane, Teosyal, etc.), breast implants and other types of implants. They rely on a legislation that goes back to the sixties when medication and medical instruments weren’t used yet for aesthetic purposes. This law was created to avoid breaking the healthcare budget. If all orthopaedists and cardiologists had started advertising about hip implants or pacemakers, it would have increased dramatically the number of such interventions and make medicine unaffordable anymore. In this case, it’s fair to say that the legislation makes sense.
In the case of aesthetic medicine however, it’s the patient who bears all the costs related to his treatment, meaning that it has no impact at all on the healthcare budget. We think it’s crucial that the patient gets correct and accurate information in optimal circumstances and by competent specialists.
In our modern society, Internet has become by far the most important source of information. A recent law rules advertising and aesthetic medicine. Information on a website is public and controllable by everyone, also by the government but the Belgian authorities still prefer to refer to the stone age and impose censorship for Belgian Internet users. We deplore this situation and have no other choice than complying with it. We will however do our best to defend the right of Belgian Internet users to correct information. Today, we can only advise Belgian visitors to make an appointment with one of our specialists who will give you the information.
Visitors outside Belgium are allowed to visit this webpage as providing such information is allowed in our neighbouring countries. A Belgian clinic is allowed to provide information to Dutch people for example, in the same way as a Dutch clinic can. Forbidding this would be discriminatory and distort competition within the European Union. Non-Belgian Internet users are thus the only ones allowed to visit our entire website.
By clicking on “I meet the criteria”, you declare that you are visiting this website from outside Belgium.
Thank you for your understanding.
In the case of aesthetic medicine however, it’s the patient who bears all the costs related to his treatment, meaning that it has no impact at all on the healthcare budget. We think it’s crucial that the patient gets correct and accurate information in optimal circumstances and by competent specialists.
In our modern society, Internet has become by far the most important source of information. A recent law rules advertising and aesthetic medicine. Information on a website is public and controllable by everyone, also by the government but the Belgian authorities still prefer to refer to the stone age and impose censorship for Belgian Internet users. We deplore this situation and have no other choice than complying with it. We will however do our best to defend the right of Belgian Internet users to correct information. Today, we can only advise Belgian visitors to make an appointment with one of our specialists who will give you the information.
Visitors outside Belgium are allowed to visit this webpage as providing such information is allowed in our neighbouring countries. A Belgian clinic is allowed to provide information to Dutch people for example, in the same way as a Dutch clinic can. Forbidding this would be discriminatory and distort competition within the European Union. Non-Belgian Internet users are thus the only ones allowed to visit our entire website.
By clicking on “I meet the criteria”, you declare that you are visiting this website from outside Belgium.
Thank you for your understanding.