Police dog handler Sam Appleby has helped to launch a campaign to enable people make informed decisions about plastic surgery.

WPC Appleby was injured as a child while playing sports, and was left with a large lump on her nose.

Avia TV, which is the UK’s first web television channel dedicated to cosmetic and reconstructive surgery, conducted rhinoplasty surgery on Sam, which, she says, has removed all the negative feelings surrounding her nose and she is now much happier with life.

Sam, who works with Kent police in the Dover and Deal area and is a devout Christian, was at the launch of Avia TV on November 10 at the Royal Society of Medicine in London.

The initiative is led by two renowned surgeons, Peter Arnstein and John Pereira who regularly appear on television programmes Extreme Makeover, The Ugly Face of Beauty and Embarrassing Bodies.

They say they are fed up of having to correct botch jobs and want people to realise who can be trusted and who are the cowboys.

They are doing this through their flagship programme, It Changed My Life.

Viewers will have the chance to benefit from the procedures of their choice and appear on the show which will follow patients through the whole surgical process, from consultation through to the surgery itself and then aftercare.

Visit www.avia-tv.com