Our
Approach: Medi-Spas
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Our
office is a professional plastic surgery office with
accredited surgical
facilities. We offer the services of AN aesthetician
who is licensed and is qualified to perform skin care
services. All surgery and invasive procedures are
done by our surgeons, including Botox and filler
injections.
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Why Medi-spas in doctor's offices? The reasons given by advocates of this concept:
SPA treatments can be a very positive experience
and combined with appropriate medical treatments can improve
skin quality. However, in an age of decreasing
insurance reimbursement, Medi-spa CAN serve as a profit
center in any medical office. While the convenience factor
for the patient is obvious, the problem lies in the inferred
credibility that medical affiliation implies. Spa treatments
in a medical setting are still just spa
treatments, no better or worse than those same treatments
in a spa or beauty
shop.
While medical treatments in a medi-spa should
be safer, safety depends on many
factors - including staff training and credentials, quality
and maintenance
of equipment, qualified medical supervision, procedures
offered, etc.
Medi-Spas: Live Longer and Look Good
Cosmetic Surgery: Promises and Pitfalls™
PROMISES
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The
promise of medical benefits (living longer and looking
better) through the services offered in a spa is
appealing. Medi-spas offer actual medical treatments
in addition to the conventional usual spa treatments.
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PITFALLS
- Cost: Clients pay a premium for "medical
supervision" of non-medical procedures. The
results are usually temporary, requiring additional
treatments and expense.
- Expectations: Clients of medi-spas
may have unrealistic expectations of procedures recommended
in this quasi-medical setting. This may result in
disappointment.
- Effectiveness: Many spa treatments have
no scientific data supporting their effectiveness. "Feel
good" treatments are pleasant experiences,
but should not be touted as medical treatments.
- Invasive procedures, including injections of fillers
and Botox, are medical treatments and should be performed
by qualified professionals.
- Surgery, just another spa service! Actual surgical
procedures done in a spa environment often trivialize
the potential risk of these procedures. Surgery is
not just another spa treatment.
- Medical supervision: Although, marketed as medically
supervised procedures, most spa procedures are performed
by non-medical personnel, who actually may be poorly
or non-supervised.
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The
image to the left is an actual print advertisement
for adding medi-spa consultants to physician's
practices.
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