Differentiating Your Practice: Choosing the Right Aesthetic Treatments to Set Your Practice Apart and Meet Client Needs
May 16, 2019By CynosureMore than ever before, consumers are seeking out aesthetic treatments to help them feel and look their best—even if it means [...]
Botulinum Toxin A for Wound Healing
May 15, 2019Injecting botulinum toxin type A into areas where scarring can occur from facelift surgery yields noticeable improvements in the quantitative evaluation and [...]
Neurotoxin News: The DAXI Differentiator
May 13, 2019By all accounts, Revance is preparing for the FDA’s approval and market launch of its lead compound daxibotulinumtoxinA for injection (DAXI). DAXI [...]
Florida Office Surgery Reforms Pass House and Senate
May 9, 2019By Alex R. Thiersch, JD, CEO of the American Med Spa Association (AmSpa)A recent news article features shocking reports of patient injury [...]
Botox Parties: What You Need to Know
May 8, 2019By Alex R. Thiersch, JD, CEO of the American Med Spa Association (AmSpa)One thing I love about the med spa industry is [...]
How to Legally Offer Anti-Aging Treatments at Your Medical Spa
May 7, 2019By Brad Adatto, JD, Partner, ByrdAdatto"Alternative medicine," "wellness treatments" and "anti-aging procedures" all have one element in common: Each has treatments and [...]
Novel Treatment Superficially Delivers Nanofat for Facial Rejuvenation
May 3, 2019Plastic surgeons in Belgium say a novel treatment using microneedling to evenly deliver nanofat superficially into the skin rejuvenates but doesn’t volumize [...]
Unsafe Practices by New Mexico Aesthetician Lead to Second HIV Infection
May 1, 2019By Alex R. Thiersch, JD, CEO of the American Med Spa Association (AmSpa), and Patrick O'Brien, JD, legal coordinator for the American [...]
New Technologies Advance Transdermal Delivery Systems
May 1, 2019In medical aesthetics, transdermal devices, or penetration enhancers, that use microneedles, rollers, dermoelectroporation and other novel modalities offer practitioners an efficient and [...]
Fibroblast-Seeded HA Filler Maintains Outcomes for Up to Six Years
April 30, 2019Patients who received a hyaluronic acid (HA)-based filler seeded with cultured fibroblasts for volume loss are maintaining their outcomes for up to [...]
The Legalities of Body Sculpting
April 29, 2019By Alex R. Thiersch, JD, CEO of the American Med Spa Association (AmSpa)Body sculpting is one of the truly hot trends in [...]
The History of Aesthetic Lasers
April 29, 2019The origins of laser technology go back to 1900, when Max Planck, a German theoretical physicist, discovered the relationship between energy and [...]