Aesthetic Surgery
This module will provide healthcare professionals with the ability to critically evaluate the ethics, culture, safety and value of established and new aesthetic techniques.
Contact: Therese Lepicard
Course type: Module Available as a Stand-alone Course? Yes Course Leaders: Rana Das Gupta and Dalvi Humzah Duration: 5 days Credits: 20 |
Module Code: MD984 Assessment: 2,000 word essay Available on which courses?
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Future course dates:
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Topics covered will include:
- History of aesthetic procedures
- Philosophy of aesthetics
- Beauty and art in aesthetics/culture and ethnicity
- A critical evaluation of the ethics of aesthetic procedures
- Psychological evaluations and expectations of outcomes
- Ageing and Expectations
- Medicolegal aspects of aesthetics
- Fat/Weight Loss; consideration to post-bariatric surgical problems
- Detailed anatomy in relation to aesthetics
Procedures
Procedures covered during the course include:
- Non-surgical:
- Botulinum toxins
- Science and use of toxins
- Use in aesthetics - dynamic muscles, hyperhidrosis and other areas
- Dermal fillers
- Temporary, longer lasting, permanent - associated science and uses
- Mesotherapy - concepts
- Lasers
- Background/uses/new modalities - fractional etc
- Concept of Laser lipolysis
- Collagen induction
- Dermaroller/Dermastamp
- Uses in scar modulation - scientific basis
- Radiofrequency
- Associated with other uses
- Liposuction
- Dermatological/topical treatments
- Tretinoin/skin peels etc
- Dermatological concepts
- Botulinum toxins
- Surgical (including minimally-invasive procedures and studies in relevant regional anatomy):
- Head and neck
- Facelifts
- Necklifts
- Rhinoplasty
- Cheeks and Chins - Oromaxillofacial techniques
- Eyelids and the forehead
- Torso: Breast, abdomen and genitalia
- Female breast augmentation/reduction/mastoplexy
- Male gynaecomastia
- Liposuction; simple, power-assisted, ultrasonic and laser-assisted
- The weight reduction patient
- Limbs
- Brachiaplasty
- Thigh and buttock enhancement
- Head and neck
This module aims to provide the healthcare professional with the ability to critically evaluate the ethics, culture, safety and value of established and new aesthetic treatments.
By the end of the module, you will be able to:
- Critically evaluate the guiding principles relating to the evaluation of the safety of aesthetic treatments
- Critically evaluate the ethics surrounding non-essential medical intervention for aesthetic enhancement
- Critically appraise the biology of ageing in different tissues and relate this to the aesthetic procedures
- Appraise the scientific basis of surgical and non-surgical procedures and evaluate their effectiveness in achieving an aesthetic goal with a review and critical evaluation of key related literature
- Critically formulate an opinion of contemporary medico-legal risk in relation to aesthetic techniques