• Payment Options for Maximizing Your Med Spa Guests’ Treatments

    May 2, 2019

    By Karen Zupko, on behalf of CareCreditHelp grow your business by promoting available payment options. Present patients with choices at multiple points [...]

  • New Technologies Advance Transdermal Delivery Systems

    May 1, 2019

    In 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, 2019

    Patients 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, 2019

    By Alex R. Thiersch, JD, CEO of the American Med Spa Association (AmSpa)Body sculpting is one of the truly hot trends in [...]

  • Telemedicine (R)evolution

    April 25, 2019

    As tools such as online banking, shopping and travel booking have become commonplace, more and more consumers expect the same convenience from [...]

  • How to Increase Your Med Spa Retail Sales

    April 24, 2019

    By Alex R. Thiersch, JD, CEO of the American Med Spa Association (AmSpa)Increasing medical spa retail product sales is a fast way [...]

  • Botched Microblading Highlights Regulatory Gap in Missouri

    April 23, 2019

    By Patrick O'Brien, JD, legal coordinator for the American Med Spa Association"Hideous" and "crazy" are not terms you ever want associated with [...]

  • Survey Says the World of Beauty Is Changing

    April 23, 2019

    In early April, Allergan released results from the Allergan 360 Aesthetics Report, in which more than 14,500 consumers and 1,300 aesthetic physicians [...]

  • Understanding Informed Consent in Medical Aesthetics

    April 22, 2019

    By Alex R. Thiersch, JD, CEO of the American Med Spa Association (AmSpa)When patients at medical spas agree to undergo treatments, they [...]

  • Examining the Prejuvenation Trend in Medical Aesthetics

    April 22, 2019

    Young people are turning to botulinum toxin, fillers, peels and more to prevent signs of aging. But are they doing it for [...]

  • Energy-based Microneedling: More Than a One-trick Therapy

    April 17, 2019

    With and without radiofrequency (RF) energy, “microneedling is a treatment that every office should offer,” said Suneel Chilukuri, M.D., a board certified [...]

  • What You Need to Know About CBD

    April 11, 2019

    CBD is everywhere, being touted as the new miracle ingredient. Prices of these products are high, and the claims are often unsubsta­ntiated. [...]