Your Skin Is Not A Meal Order
I don’t do menu medicine.
Aesthetic Medicine is medicine — and the proof is in where these aesthetic treatments came from.
Every treatment that gets ordered off a menu today started somewhere far more serious. Here’s where.
Microneedling probably the oldest of the modalities used was first used in 1905 to treat scars and birth marks through controlled skin injury to reformat collagen. The original answer to skin repair, refined by science.
Even mesotherapy (or as I describe it — fertilising the skin) developed in the 1950s was used as a medical treatment for chronic pain, vascular disorders and arthritis. A treatment with deeper roots than its current reputation suggests.
Botulinum toxin is arguably the most popular aesthetic treatment in the world, known for its muscle-relaxing properties. But its origins are in eye medicine — treating strabismus (cross eyes) and blepharospasm (eye twitching) in the 1970s as an alternative to surgery. In the 1990s, an ophthalmologist named Dr. Jean Carruthers noticed her patients’ brow wrinkles were vanishing as a side effect of treating their eye spasms. That observation built an industry.
Platelet-rich plasma — PRP — also has a long medical history. First used to correct blood disorders in the 1970s, then to control bleeding in surgery, later in dental reconstruction and wound healing. Today it’s widely used in orthopaedics to treat osteoarthritis and tendon injuries. The aesthetic application is one of the newer chapters — not the original purpose.
And lasers — entering medicine back in the 1960s — were used to treat vascular malformations like port-wine stains, and to reduce scar tissue. They are powerful medical devices with real risk attached. Today some of them are sitting in shopping-centre rooms, treated like a facial.
Every one of these treatments has a serious medical lineage.
Every one of these treatments is now being delivered like a service, not a procedure.
Let that sit for a second.
Your skin is not a meal order.
Aesthetic medicine is medicine — and you deserve to be treated by someone with a medical approach. The treatments will work better. The results will last longer. And the money you spend now will be maintainable for longer.
