Cadavers have, for many years, been used in medical education both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including in specialities like non-surgical aesthetic and cosmetic surgery practices. This article aims to highlight the benefits of donated human cadavers in non-surgical aesthetic procedures, including the learning process and ethical issues that are associated with such practises.
To do no harm to the patients we treat is an important edict of the Hippocratic Oath and must be upheld for our patients’ protection.1 Training in non-surgical aesthetic facial treatments is not standardised, and often involves volunteer patients undergoing treatments administered by trainees, albeit under an experienced practitioner’s supervision. The trainee’s knowledge of the complex applied facial anatomy may be based on theory and two-dimensional diagrams in the literature, which do not have the…
