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Laser season continues and I thought you might like to see behind the scenes of a full field laser resurfacing treatment.

This is our wonderful patient Carol who kindly allowed us to film her procedure from start to finish. Carol is pretty typical of patients we treat with this procedure - she`s a former smoker who has also spent a lot of time in the sun as well as using sunbeds, so she`s picked up quite a lot of skin damage over the years.

I treated her full face, with particular focus on the lines around her lips, and she is absolutely over the moon with her results! Watch for Carol`s full procedure and an insight into the recovery process.

If you`re thinking about getting a laser treatment, now is the time to do it while the days are darker and social calendars are still a bit quieter. Send us a message if you`d like to find out if you`d be suitable for this treatment.

We`re often asked about threads in the clinic and why we don`t offer them. Here`s our Medical Director Dr Rhona explaining what threads are, why we don`t use them, and why fillers are a much more reliable option for people looking for non-surgical rejuvenation.

Before anyone says "Ah, but I don`t want a big fat face" - Dr Rhona has filler in pretty much every part of her own face, and I think we can agree she does not have a fat face! The key to non-surgical rejuvenation is addressing the anatomy, not following the trends!

What do you think?

#threads #dermalfiller #threadsvsfillers

As most of you will know, I’ve been campaigning for years for regulation of aesthetic procedures in Scotland. It’s something that I feel extremely passionate about. There are too many people in this country who are harmed from cosmetic procedures and the government has chosen to look the other way.

The government have finally agreed to bring in regulations, but in my view, they are too little too late and I’ve been writing about it in the Herald this morning (read the article at the link in my bio) and talking about it on BBC Radio Scotland`s Good Morning Scotland (you can listen here and on BBC Sounds).

The proposed regulations will make a list of procedures medic only, but they have proposed to allow beauticians to keep injecting fillers in ‘Group 2`. This is the wrong approach and is all to do with politics, rather than patient safety. Filler injections are more invasive and more high risk than most of the procedures they are making medic only and its very clear fillers belong in Group 3, medic only.

There is a consultation on the regulations live right now and I would urge all of our patients and followers to fill it in, pointing out the discrepancy of allowing beauticians to carry on doing fillers whilst banning them from much more benign procedures like PRP. This needs to be about patient safety, not politics.

You can fill out a response to the consultation at the link in my bio.

Thank you!

(To all of our international followers struggling to get their head around this, in the UK we have a situation where yone - with no training and no regulation - can set up shop offering cosmetic procedures. We are campaigning to bring Scotland in line with every other country and ban this practice!)