The Royal Society of Medicine welcomed practitioners to the Aesthetics XIV Annual Congress on September 4.
The event brought together leading voices from across medical aesthetics under the theme, Shaping the Future of Aesthetic Medicine: A Multidisciplinary & Regenerative Perspective.
This year’s congress placed health, wellbeing and accurate diagnosis at the centre of medical aesthetics, emphasising their importance before any aesthetic treatment is considered.
Several sessions focused on conditions that must be recognised and appropriately diagnosed before aesthetic procedures, including rosacea, facial palsy, periorbital disease, endocrine and metabolic disorders and the biology of ageing.
The programme also explored complications, adverse events, informed consent and communication.
Among the speakers was aesthetic practitioner Dr Souphi Samizadeh, Dr Farhad Naini, who delivered the keynote lecture, and Mr Christopher Rowland-Payne – to name a few.
Dr Samizadeh, congress president of the Section of Aesthetic Medicine and Surgery at the Royal Society of Medicine, commented, “My aim for this congress was to give healthcare professionals working in medical aesthetics an educational home, evidence-based, scientific and not product-led. Medical aesthetics is a multidisciplinary specialty, and it should be taught as one. We brought surgical and non-surgical experts from the UK and abroad into the same room for a whole day, chairing together and answering questions together, so that delegates could immerse themselves in every perspective rather than only their own. I also wanted to say clearly that health, wellbeing and correct diagnosis are integral to medical aesthetics, not something separate from it.”