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Treatment of photoaged skin with Nordlys® SWT® IPL and Matrix Pro® RF microneedling

4 December 2025 | | PMFA - Aesthetic Medicine, PMFA - Dermatology
Skin photoageing is a complex, multifactorial process influenced by both intrinsic ageing and chronic exposure to environmental factors; with ultraviolet radiation playing a significant role. Patients seeking improvement in photoaged skin (skin revitalisation) increasingly prefer minimally invasive treatments that enhance...

The AMWC 2024 awards

27 March 2024 | PMFA - Aesthetic Medicine, PMFA - Dermatology
Recognising innovation and excellence in Aesthetic and Anti-Ageing Medicine, this prestigious competition rewards the best physicians and companies in the global medical aesthetic market.The winners were announced yesterday at the AMWC Congress in Monaco. The PMFA Journal team would like...

Debate - Voluntary registers for medical cosmetic practitioners: friend or foe?

1 October 2015 | | PMFA - Aesthetic Medicine, PMFA - General Plastic Surgery
In June this year BACN and PIAPA issued a joint statement criticising voluntary registration bodies such as Save Face. Regulation is a hot topic that many in the industry feel passionately about, and the statement sparked a debate about whether...

Plastic surgery and aesthetic medicine: specialties and specialists

1 February 2015 | | PMFA - Aesthetic Medicine, PMFA - Dermatology, PMFA - Facial Plastic Surgery, PMFA - General Plastic Surgery
Dr Nikolaos Metatoxos has written an excellent article ‘How to establish a successful practice in aesthetic medicine’, which looks at the business of aesthetic medicine and underlines some very important ethical issues. When comparing hospital doctors and aesthetic medicine practitioners...

Emerging trends in the aesthetics of rhinoplasty: from local to global

1 February 2017 | | PMFA - Rhinoplasty
The concept of ‘beauty’ can be bewildering in its scope and variation through time and geographical location. As the aim of facial plastic surgery consists of restoration of form and function, the definition of beauty takes on immense importance. Although...

Plastic surgery and safety issues: a patient perspective

12 October 2021 | | PMFA - General Plastic Surgery, PMFA - Facial Plastic Surgery
Patient safety in the unregulated world of cosmetic plastic surgery is now an extremely serious global issue. The media is always ready to sensationalise disasters but what can be done to prevent them? One key issue is the concept of...

Thread lifting – the fundamentals

1 September 2022 | | PMFA - Aesthetic Medicine
"Thread lifting” is a minimally invasive outpatient procedure that is becoming increasingly popular internationally [1-3]. Threads are surgical sutures that can be utilised for facial and body contouring and rejuvenation. These sutures can be used for skin rejuvenation as bio-stimulators...

OPINION - Impact of the Paterson Inquiry on the cosmetic and aesthetics sector

2 August 2023 | | PMFA - Aesthetic Medicine, PMFA - General Plastic Surgery
On 15 December 2022, The Department of Health and Social Care published the ‘Government response to the independent inquiry report into the issues raised by former surgeon Ian Paterson: 12-month implementation progress update’. The reference documents (which apply to England)...

In conversation with Dr Uliana Gout

16 December 2021 | PMFA - Aesthetic Medicine
We recently caught up with Dr Uliana Gout, re-elected President of the British College of Aesthetic Medicine (BCAM), about the College’s 20th anniversary year, its plans for 2022 and how it has supported members throughout the pandemic. Are you enjoying...

We need to talk about amputation – a difficult conversation in the developing world

21 July 2020 | | PMFA - General Plastic Surgery
What do you do when a patient refuses amputation? The author shares various cases and outlines her team’s approach to this scenario in Gaza. What to do when a patient refuses amputation for a severely damaged lower limb that will...

Perceptions and Deceptions: a personal blog by the editor 5 October 2016

5 October 2016 |
And there was me thinking Hong Kong is in a bit of a political mess! What an extraordinary few weeks in the UK as far as medicine is concerned. After months of insisting that he, The Right Honorable Jeremy Hunt,...

Could a technology from the past change skin disinfection for the future?

1 August 2017 | | PMFA - Aesthetic Medicine, PMFA - General Plastic Surgery
It wouldn’t be unreasonable to argue that the field of medicine has seen some of the most significant scientific advances of the past 100 years: the cracking of genetic coding, the advances in pharmacology, the development of biopharmaceuticals and the...