ISSUE: Summer 2005
Anti-aging & Wellness
Myotonology
As our aging population seeks products for enhancing youthful appearance and vitality, physician strive to find the safest and most effective products to assist their patients. The public, as well as the physician, is often inundated with the latest “high tech” approach to facial rejuvenation. For those of us who wish to prescribe technologies for enhanced youthful appearance, the proof for microcurrent stimulation is unquestionable. Utilizing the Myotonology® Facial Rejuvenation System, one can ensure that a scientifically documented, patented system provides...
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Dermatology
Peels & Resurfacing
ROLES WITHIN THE PHYSICIAN AND NON-PHYSICIAN SETTING
Peels have been a treatment staple in the medical aesthetic office for decades as physicians have utilized them effectively for anti-aging and acne. Time has changed this model of practice some, since the advent of lasers and the addition of aesthetic professionals to offices. The employ of these professionals, such as estheticians, nurses and physician assistants, by a physician expands his practice. The physician can be performing ‘physician-only’ treatments, such as deep peels,...
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Laser & Light Technology
Laser Use & Safety
A GUIDE IN EDUCATING NEW LASER USERS ON THE CONCERNS AND ISSUES RELATED TO LASER SAFETY
LASER is an acronym which stands for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. The energy generated by the laser is in or near the optical portion of the electromagnetic spectrum (see Figure 1). Energy is amplified to extremely high intensity by an atomic process called stimulated emission. The term "radiation" is often misinterpreted because the term is also used to describe radioactive materials or ionizing radiation. The use of the word in this context, however,...
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Legal Case of the Month
Non-Ablative Laser Devices
DOES THEIR USE CONSTITUTE THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE? A LOOK AT CURRENT LEGISLATION IN CALIFORNIA AND TEXAS
With the increasing popularity of medical spas which provide nonablative medical procedures, there is increased attention on non-licensed individuals - medical assistants, cosmetologist, estheticians, electrologists, and technicians - who are using class IV medical laser devices. Although these non-licensed individuals operate under the supervision of a physician and/or medical director, oftentimes the physician is not present on-site. The dilemma the industry faces is whether lasers are medical devices and whether the use of non-ablative...
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Medical Spas
Vitamins
AND THEIR IMPORTANCE IN HEALTH AND DISEASE
The word ‘Vitamins,’ meaning a vital amine, was proposed by a Polish researcher, Dr. Cacimir Funk, in 1911 to designate a new food substance which cured beriberi. Other terms were proposed as new factors were discovered; but the word vitamin, with the final ‘e’ dropped, met with popular favour. Vitamins are potent organic compounds which are found in small concentrations in foods. They perform specific and vital functions in the body chemistry. They are like electric sparks which help to run human motors....
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Men’s Aesthetic Procedures
Hair Restoration
AESTHETIC PERSPECTIVES
The science of surgical hair restoration has achieved remarkable progress since its inception decades ago in the 1950s. A few years later in 1959, the discovery of the principle of “donor dominance” truly launched the new medical field when the horseshoeshaped wreath of hair at the back of the head and along the sides became the donor area for harvesting hair for transplantation. Although it was not known why the hair in this area was genetically programmed to resist the withering....
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Plastic Surgery
Cellulite
TRUTHS AND MISNOMERS
Cellulite affects women of every weight, body type, and fitness level. But despite its widespread occurrence, cellulite remains one of the world’s most misunderstood maladies. What most of us know as Acellulite is actually its outward symptom: dimpled, “orange-peel” skin. But contrary to the popular belief that it is just a particularly unattractive variety of the Afat word, cellulite is a multifactorial disease that affects more than 85% of women at some point in their lives. The external look of cellulite is just the tip of the iceberg. The unsightly cobblestone appearance we call cellulite is believed to result from...
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