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Save Face is calling for the enactment of 'Alice’s Law', which would make it illegal for anyone other than a registered Plastic Surgeon on the GMC specialist register, operating from a CQC regulated environment, to perform buttock augmentation procedures using hyaluronic acid dermal fillers.

But she adds that her film injects possible notes of caution into the issue of body augmentation.

The film also highlights that three years earlier, BBC News presenter Stephen Sackur highlighted possible ethical concerns about body augmentation.

Dani Clode, an augmentation designer for Cambridge University's neuroscience plasticity lab, finds Harbisson "fascinating" but says she and her colleagues are still working out if augmentation is "a good thing, or is it a bad thing?"

"I'm thinking, not so much me - I'm nearly 70 - but there's young girls, because they wanted breast augmentation, and they're walking around like timebombs," she said.