As the aesthetics specialty advances, with new technologies constantly emerging, treatment options at practitioners’ fingertips are growing by the day. Increasingly, different treatment modalities are being applied synergistically to achieve optimal results for patients. At the Merz Institute of Advanced Aesthetics Expert Summit in 2016, top aesthetic practitioners and faculty members concluded that, ‘To offer patients the best possible outcomes, we should no longer think about individual treatments but recognise that more than one procedure will be required to correct all the issues.
Injectables and other modalities such as topical skincare and energy-based therapies can be combined for optimal results’.1 This concept has certainly increased in momentum, emerging as a key trend for coming years in the medical aesthetic specialty.2-4
At the beginning of 2024, aesthetic practitioner Dr Priya Chadha told Hamilton Fraser in its trends report, “I suspect there’s going to be a move away from what we see now as individual, isolated…
