Dermatologist Dr. Vince Bertucci has seen patients with permanent disfigurement, skin discolouration and burns as a result of complications from laser hair removal - a procedure largely unregulated in Canada. "I just saw a young girl - it was a very sad case - who developed a very prominent scar on her right upper lip from laser hair removal. She's under 20 years old," says Bertucci, a consultant dermatologist at Women's College Hospital and former codirector of undergraduate dermatology at the University of Toronto in Ontario. "It's heart-wrenching to deal with these cases because ... they're going in to look better, and come out looking worse."
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