Trends in Aesthetic Medicine 2018: What Leading Experts Predict

Aesthetic medicine can safely be called one of the most progressively developing medical specialties. Millions of patients around the world use the services of estheticians, which is why numerous studies are carried out every year, discoveries are made, innovative solutions are offered to correct aesthetic defects.

Every year more and more opportunities open up for doctors and their patients, new methods, procedures and preparations appear. What trends in aesthetic medicine will be the main ones in 2018 – Exclusively for estet-portal.com, the leading experts in Ukraine told.

Leading experts shared their opinion with estet-portal.com

• First of all, these are aesthetic proportions and facial harmonization. Injection techniques are becoming more and more popular every year, and therefore it is very important for doctors to know how to get a natural and harmonious result of contouring.

 

• Second – these are gender characteristics in the correction of age-related changes. Men are increasingly coming to us for aesthetic correction, and I think that next year this trend will be even more widespread, so doctors need information about the peculiarities of working with male patients.

 

• In addition, the issue of masculinization and the procedures used for this purpose will also be relevant.

 

• Among the other trends of the coming year, I can single out work with complex zones, with the lower third of the face, image and age correction, beautification, fashion look, as well as laser techniques, lipofilling and SNIF nanolipografting. I think the future is with them!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Doctor of the highest category, dermatovenereologist, scientific coordinator of the Academy of Scientific Beauty, Teoxane international speaker, member of the Euromedicom Scientific Committee and member of EADV (Ukraine), President of the Association of Aesthetic Gynecology and Andrology Vladlena Averina:

• The trend will be lipofilling, which expands the possibilities of aesthetic correction of the face and body. If you look at the program of the upcoming landmark IMCAS and AMWC congresses, you will notice how much attention is paid to this topic.
• Gender differences in the approach of feminization vs masculinization will be relevant, because unisex (the formal absence of signs in appearance indicating that a person belongs to one or another gender, — ed. note) has not yet penetrated into medical cosmetology as deeply as to the world of fashion.
• Much attention will be paid to sexual health and aesthetics of intimate areas. Therefore, aesthetic gynecology and andrology will gain momentum.
• Procedures that give quick and visible results have been and will be popular. And it doesn't have to be prohibitively expensive. Although the slogan "quickly qualitatively inexpensive" — choose any 2 components" works in everything.

I want to say that complex and often dangerous techniques and off-label use of drugs (use of drugs for indications not approved by state regulatory bodies, not mentioned in the instructions for use, — ed. note) can give a quick visible result , but are associated with a high risk of complications.

I don't think there are big discoveries in injection methods. No revolution is expected in approaches, preparations, methods, areas, so we need to improve what we have. But for hardware methods (like any gadgets), new horizons open up every year. The main thing is that it is not only effective, but also safe.

 

• Next year, I think that even more attention will be paid to the health and beauty of the female intimate area.

 

• Minimally invasive techniques will be intensively developed, including the use of fillers and mesothreads according to my method. At the moment, I am also working on such a method as performing a minimally invasive perineoplasty using threads with notches to narrow the vulvar ring. I am sure that in 2018 this procedure will become one of the main trends in aesthetic gynecology.

 

• Well, and most importantly, it is fashionable now to be healthy, and this is the main trend for next year.  Modern girls are very responsible and serious about choosing a partner and creating a family, many patients turn to me to restore the hymen. Pure relationships in marriage and before marriage, one sexual partner and a strong family – that's what's important today. I think that next year even more attention will be paid to these issues.
  
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