Vikas Thakur / / 10 min readA cosmetic surgeon in Australia must disclose at least 22 separate pieces of information before a patient's consent is valid. Injectables and other non-surgical procedures need 18. Both counts come straight from the Medical Board of Australia and AHPRA's own guidelines.
Vikas Thakur / / 9 min readIn Australia, a patient under 18 must wait at least three months before cosmetic surgery and at least seven days before a non-surgical cosmetic procedure such as injectables. The rules sit in two separate regulator guidelines, in force since 2023 and 2 September 2025, and both reach into a clinic's website and ads.
Vikas Thakur / / 9 min readThe Medical Board of Australia approved its cosmetic surgery endorsement framework back in 2023. As of the Board's most recently reviewed pages, no training program has been accredited and no doctor has been granted the endorsement, so the credential exists in law with no living examples yet.
Vikas Thakur / / 9 min readTikTok's cosmetic surgery ad policy, last updated April 2026, now lets approved advertisers run before-and-after imagery, but its own page limits the exception to "USA & Canada." Copy that ad creative into an AU campaign and the exception does not travel with it.
Vikas Thakur / / 8 min readMen's share of cosmetic procedures grew 6.3% worldwide in 2024 while women's fell 3.9%, according to ISAPS's survey of 2,975 surgeons across 32 countries. Women still account for 84.0% of all procedures. Australia performed 177,502 procedures that year, but no dataset breaks that figure down by patient age or gender.
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Vikas Thakur / / 8 min readAlmost 7 million Australians, 38% of adults, are considering a cosmetic procedure in the next decade, according to the ACCSM's 2023 national survey. Here's who they are, what's driving the decision, and where demand is highest.
