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Woman deported from Dubai after airport row advertised unlicensed Botox treatments

- GILLIAN DUNCAN The National.

A Swedish dentist who was deported from the UAE for taking pictures of an immigratio­n officer during an angry row was also offering Botox injections without a licence in Dubai.

Ellie Holman, 44, who runs a private clinic in the UK, made headlines when she claimed she was arrested for drinking a glass of wine on an Emirates flight from London to Dubai.

The mother of three told British media she was mistreated and fell foul of the authoritie­s through no fault of her own.

It was later revealed that she had tried to use her expired Swedish passport to enter the country on July 13, then used an Iranian passport without a visa, which would only allow her to stay in the country for 96 hours.

Dubai’s Attorney General said Ms Holman “refused angrily to the additional payment fees that the process would require and proceeded to verbally insult the immigratio­n officer and take photos of the officer on her phone”.

She was then charged with profanity and photograph­ing a government official at a border crossing, which is a restricted area, but had the charges dropped and was deported.

It has now come to light that Ms Holman advertised Botox injections and other procedures while on visits to Dubai.

Dubai Health Authority regulation­s state that only medical consultant­s and specialist physicians are allowed to carry out the injections.

Ms Holman is not listed in the authority’s online directory.

All medical practition­ers are required to be registered with the authority and the law states that “non-surgical cosmetic services will be provided in DHA-licensed facilities”.

Ms Holman, who holds dual Swedish and Iranian citizenshi­p, runs Dr Ellie Holman Aesthetics in Sevenoaks, Kent.

The clinic advertises “botox and filler treatments” for patients and states Ms Holman is a “qualified dental surgeon” with “over 13 years experience in aesthetic medicine”.

Ms Holman also has a Facebook page for her practice, which makes references to procedures carried out in Dubai, including posts with the hash tag“dubai clinic stories ”.

One post on May 26 last year reads: “Dubai we are coming for you,” and includes the hashtags dubaiclini­c, clinic, doctor and dr el lie holman dubai.

A flood of social media comments after her deportatio­n this week claimed Ms Holman’s procedures were well advertised and widely known.

In a Facebook group for British expatriate­s, one user claimed Ms Holman had been “operating in Dubai for years”.

Ms Holman’s Facebook page includes a post thanking the British press for an article from February this year that highlighte­d the need for tighter government guidelines on who should be allowed to administer dermal fillers and botox in the UK.

“If you are considerin­g aesthetic treatment, please be aware that whoever is injecting you must also be qualified to resolve any side effects or complicati­ons that may possibly occur,” Ms Holman wrote.

“These include infections, vascular occlusions, nodules, allergic reaction and anaphylaxi­s.”

Ms Holman yesterday declined to comment when contacted by

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Ellie Holman tried to use an expired passport to enter the UAE

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