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I’ve never been convinced that preventative aesthetics should mean treating every visible line before it has a chance to develop. The better goal is more restrained. If a patient’s forehead moves naturally, their brows sit where they belong, and their expression still reads clearly across a room, there’s a good argument for leaving much of it alone. Micro-dosing neurotoxins fits...

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I’ve never found the goal of filler treatment to be “no movement.” If a patient smiles and every part of the face suddenly looks fixed, the treatment has missed something important. Facial animation is part of facial structure. The forehead moves with surprise, the lips change shape during speech, the perioral skin folds with a smile, and the cheeks shift as expressions change. ...

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I’ve become more cautious about treating forehead lines with botulinum toxin, not less. The temptation is to see a visible horizontal line, identify the frontalis, and treat the muscle until the skin looks smooth. That approach misses the main clinical problem. The frontalis is doing useful work. It raises the brow and helps compensate for upper-eyelid and brow heaviness. Remove...

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I’ve become more cautious about the word “definition” in aesthetic medicine. A sharper jawline isn’t always created by adding more product. In patients with mild tissue laxity, a small amount of strategically placed structural filler often makes more sense than trying to replace every visible loss of volume. And when the treatment goal includes both contour and progressive derma...

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For years, aesthetic medicine treated skin ageing as a problem with fairly obvious visual targets. A wrinkle appeared, so we softened it. Volume disappeared, so we replaced it. The skin looked dull, so we resurfaced it. Those approaches still have a place. But skin laxity has always been the awkward problem in the room. You can fill a fold and still have poor tissue quality. You...

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