Why knowing anatomy is key to becoming a safe aesthetic injector

October 31, 2024

Why knowing anatomy is key to becoming a safe aesthetic injector

When healthcare professionals embark on a move into medical aesthetics, it is often underpinned by a commercial driver which dictates, “I must get i...

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How to avoid causing eyelid ptosis with botulinum toxin treatment

October 24, 2024

How to avoid causing eyelid ptosis with botulinum toxin treatment

As aesthetic clinicians, we help patients look younger, empower them to have longer, healthier lives, and be psycho-socially confident. Treatments lik...

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How to build the confidence to succeed in aesthetic practice

October 17, 2024

How to build the confidence to succeed in aesthetic practice

Do you find yourself asking, how can I become confident in X? And ‘X’ could be a new injection procedure, a consultation tip, talking about compli...

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Leaving healthcare for full-time aesthetics: building a strategy

October 10, 2024

Leaving healthcare for full-time aesthetics: building a strategy

Some of you might be wondering how to approach the situation where you want to leave your role in the NHS to pursue a full-time career in aesthetic pr...

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How to fix an asymmetrical or crooked smile with Botox

October 3, 2024

How to fix an asymmetrical or crooked smile with Botox

Crooked smiles are quite common – sometimes it is just part of a person’s natural appearance, but they can also be caused by incorrect placeme...

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When Botox isn’t enough, when to use filler for DEEP forehead lines

September 26, 2024

When Botox isn’t enough, when to use filler for DEEP forehead lines

If a patient attends your clinic complaining about a frown line, they are often not concerned about the crease in their skin but are more concerned ab...

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The clinical path to being a successful medical aesthetic practitioner

September 19, 2024

The clinical path to being a successful medical aesthetic practitioner

If you are building a career as a medical aesthetic practitioner, you are on a journey which will hopefully lead to success, but it won’t come easy,...

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Avoiding workplace toxicity in an aesthetic clinic business

September 12, 2024

Avoiding workplace toxicity in an aesthetic clinic business

Working with others and growing your team of aesthetic clinicians can be a significant challenge for business owners. You may start out with a close-k...

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Chasing profit could be the biggest mistake when building your clinic

September 5, 2024

Chasing profit could be the biggest mistake when building your clinic

What is driving your aesthetic clinic business? Do you have a passion for your patients and clinical work, or is it all about the profit? In this blog...

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Removing necklace lines around the neck with dermal filler

August 15, 2024

Removing necklace lines around the neck with dermal filler

Do you have patients hiding their necks behind scarves because of lines that run in circles around their necks – so-called necklace lines? If you an...

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Mastering patient consultations and expert injection planning

August 8, 2024

Mastering patient consultations and expert injection planning

Want to know the answer to the question, how do you achieve the best result for your patient? It always starts with the consultation. In this blog, Dr...

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Tutorial: Safely fixing nose asymmetry with fillers (liquid rhinoplasty)

August 1, 2024

Tutorial: Safely fixing nose asymmetry with fillers (liquid rhinoplasty)

Non-surgical rhinoplasty or liquid nose jobs can be fraught with complexity, especially in patients with cosmetic concerns requiring significant corre...

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Longevity: “I beat eczema by ditching steroid creams and healing my gut”

July 25, 2024

Longevity: “I beat eczema by ditching steroid creams and healing my gut”

Sometimes, modern medicine does not provide all the answers, offering a bandage or sticking plaster to control symptoms rather than a cure for a chron...

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Tutorial: Mastering temple and glabella (frown line) fillers

July 18, 2024

Tutorial: Mastering temple and glabella (frown line) fillers

Mastering the anatomy of the temple, glabella, and surrounding facial structures in the upper face is essential for safe dermal filler injections beca...

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Tutorial: Transforming challenging lips, blending lateral lip dominance

July 11, 2024

Tutorial: Transforming challenging lips, blending lateral lip dominance

As an aesthetic clinician, you may be faced with tackling the challenge of treating a complex lip case, especially where there has been previous treat...

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Tutorial: 3D Anatomy Botox (Botulinum Toxin) Brow Lift

July 4, 2024

Tutorial: 3D Anatomy Botox (Botulinum Toxin) Brow Lift

We could be accused of being repetitive, but we cannot say is enough…anatomy knowledge is VITAL if you want to be a great aesthetic clinician. In th...

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Clinic businesses: Chelsey Brown’s top tips for building success

June 27, 2024

Clinic businesses: Chelsey Brown’s top tips for building success

It takes guts, resilience, medical expertise, confidence, and unwavering determination to build a clinic empire, want to learn how to achieve success?...

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Clinic businesses: Chelsey Brown, ‘How I built 3 clinics in 4 years’

June 20, 2024

Clinic businesses: Chelsey Brown, ‘How I built 3 clinics in 4 years’

If you are a cosmetic nurse practitioner or doctor trying to build something special with your aesthetic business, it can be very valuable to learn fr...

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Longevity: The anti-ageing benefits of Bryan Johnson’s Nutty Pudding

June 13, 2024

Longevity: The anti-ageing benefits of Bryan Johnson’s Nutty Pudding

Can you eat pudding and live longer? Well, that is the claim made by Bryan Johnson, a successful U.S. technology entrepreneur more widely known for fo...

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Longevity: the best and worst supplements to slow ageing

June 6, 2024

Longevity: the best and worst supplements to slow ageing

Knowing which supplements to take for better health and longevity can be incredibly confusing with so much product availability and differentiation, a...

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Longevity: You don’t need 3 meals a day; fasting slows down ageing

May 30, 2024

Longevity: You don’t need 3 meals a day; fasting slows down ageing

As a society, we are conditioned to think that we need three meals a day to be healthy and feel that we ‘cannot go without breakfast’, but...

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Business: I’m pivoting my clinics from aesthetics to longevity medicine

May 23, 2024

Business: I’m pivoting my clinics from aesthetics to longevity medicine

When we look at what we do in aesthetic medicine, you could argue that we have only been focusing on the tip of the iceberg when it comes to ageing, p...

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Longevity: Will cold plunging into a lake reverse biological ageing?

May 16, 2024

Longevity: Will cold plunging into a lake reverse biological ageing?

After interviewing cellular scientist, longevity expert and Founder of Nuchido, Dr Nichola Conlon about the reality of reversing biological ageing, sh...

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Mitochondrial dysfunction: disease, cellular ageing, longevity & aesthetics

May 9, 2024

Mitochondrial dysfunction: disease, cellular ageing, longevity & aesthetics

As aesthetic clinicians, we are familiar with patients who come to us seeking cosmetic intervention, beautification, facial enhancement, or skin rejuv...

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Longevity, ageing as a disease, and reversing biological age

May 2, 2024

Longevity, ageing as a disease, and reversing biological age

In the next few years, the fields of aesthetic medicine and longevity research will merge, transforming our clinical practice; a lot of aesthetic clin...

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Tutorial: how to inject cheeks with dermal filler

April 25, 2024

Tutorial: how to inject cheeks with dermal filler

Aesthetic clinicians often find that the cheeks are a difficult or tricky area to inject. With so many differing angles of projection in this area of ...

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How to treat a second smile line with Botox and dermal filler

April 18, 2024

How to treat a second smile line with Botox and dermal filler

Some patients will visit an aesthetic clinic with concerns about a second smile line – a horizontal crease above their top lip – some want to ...

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Why I am moving on from aesthetics and embracing longevity

April 11, 2024

Why I am moving on from aesthetics and embracing longevity

A new opportunity is emerging for medical aesthetic practitioners, and you are going to be key drivers in the shift from traditional aesthetic procedu...

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How to massage lips after dermal filler to avoid lumps

April 4, 2024

How to massage lips after dermal filler to avoid lumps

Lumps of dermal filler in the lips can be a real cause for concern for patients; therefore, you must ensure you carry out a post-procedure massage aft...

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From overworked medical professional to successful aesthetic injector

April 1, 2024

From overworked medical professional to successful aesthetic injector

Becoming a successful aesthetic clinical injector starts with the right training, mentorship, and a supportive community. In this blog, we give you a ...

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Botox: safe injection points for crow’s feet (lateral canthal lines)

March 28, 2024

Botox: safe injection points for crow’s feet (lateral canthal lines)

Crow’s feet, medically referred to as lateral canthal lines are commonly treated with botulinum toxin (Botox®) to reduce their prominence. However,...

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Botox: safe injection points for smile lines (lateral canthal lines)

March 21, 2024

Botox: safe injection points for smile lines (lateral canthal lines)

Referred to by their medical name, lateral canthal lines are also known as smile lines, or perhaps more derogatorily as crow’s feet. They are common...

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Botox: safe injection points for frown lines (glabella)

March 14, 2024

Botox: safe injection points for frown lines (glabella)

Injection points can often seem similar between practitioners, yet different approaches and techniques are always used by different aesthetic injector...

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Botox: correct injection points for crow’s feet (lateral canthal lines)

March 7, 2024

Botox: correct injection points for crow’s feet (lateral canthal lines)

Crow’s feet, or to give them their correct medical name – lateral canthal lines, are a common complaint from aesthetic patients who start to n...

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How to create safe lips results using the 4mm needle technique

February 29, 2024

How to create safe lips results using the 4mm needle technique

Dr Tim is often sent videos of injection techniques and asked for his opinion. He likes to turn these into teaching opportunities to help other aesthe...

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How to correct facial asymmetry with botulinum toxin (Botox) treatment

February 22, 2024

How to correct facial asymmetry with botulinum toxin (Botox) treatment

Using botulinum toxin or Botox® to correct facial asymmetry in patients is both underused and overused because there are times when it achieves amazi...

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How to fix a Spock brow and avoid it happening again after Botox treatment

February 15, 2024

How to fix a Spock brow and avoid it happening again after Botox treatment

Let’s face it, there is nothing more awkward than sitting in a room with a patient who is complaining about the horrendous Spock brow that you have ...

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5 mistakes aesthetic clinicians make thinking they are 100% safe

February 8, 2024

5 mistakes aesthetic clinicians make thinking they are 100% safe

Following safety steps when delivering cosmetic injectables can lower your risk of causing complications, ultimately making you a safer injector. But ...

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5 tips to avoid filler-induced necrosis in aesthetic practice

February 1, 2024

5 tips to avoid filler-induced necrosis in aesthetic practice

If you strive to become a safer injector in aesthetic medical practice, there is no reason why you cannot get through your whole career without causin...

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Preventing necrosis from intravascular injection of dermal fillers

January 25, 2024

Preventing necrosis from intravascular injection of dermal fillers

There is one pathology in medical aesthetics feared above all others – necrosis. In this blog, Dr Tim Pearce explains more about necrosis, and w...

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Dermal fillers: avoiding necrosis in aesthetic practice

January 18, 2024

Dermal fillers: avoiding necrosis in aesthetic practice

In the aesthetic sector, you will hear practitioners talking a lot about vascular occlusion, but understanding what causes different types of vascular...

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Eyebrow ptosis or hooded eyelids, can you tell the difference?

January 11, 2024

Eyebrow ptosis or hooded eyelids, can you tell the difference?

There has recently been a noticeable trend, particularly amongst celebrities, with individuals seeking a ‘fix’ for hooded eyelids and turning to p...

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Permanent neuropraxia and brow ptosis after cannula temple filler

January 8, 2024

Permanent neuropraxia and brow ptosis after cannula temple filler

Dr Tim Pearce recently came across a case of a patient who suffered permanent brow ptosis or eyebrow drop because of dermal filler treatment to revolu...

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How to spot aesthetic patients with body dysmorphia or BDD

December 28, 2023

How to spot aesthetic patients with body dysmorphia or BDD

Considering whether to treat patients with body dysmorphia, also referred to as body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) can be a daunting and complex situation...

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Lip anatomy lesson: lip arteries to avoid when injecting filler

December 21, 2023

Lip anatomy lesson: lip arteries to avoid when injecting filler

When it comes to facial aesthetics and injecting dermal fillers for cosmetic enhancement, the lips are one of the most likely areas for the occurrence...

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How to avoid lip filler lumps and treat them when they happen

December 14, 2023

How to avoid lip filler lumps and treat them when they happen

The development of lumps and bumps in the lips following a lip filler enhancement or augmentation procedure is a frequently reported side effect. Unde...

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How to fix a gummy smile with botulinum toxin (Botox)

December 7, 2023

How to fix a gummy smile with botulinum toxin (Botox)

Many patients seek ways to fix their gummy smile – excessive gingival exposure upon smiling, and botulinum toxin or Botox® is one of the easiest wa...

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Muscle anatomy lesson: levator labii alaeque nasi muscle

December 4, 2023

Muscle anatomy lesson: levator labii alaeque nasi muscle

Treating the levator labii alaeque nasi muscle (LLAN) is most associated with botulinum toxin injections to treat a ‘gummy smile’, characterised b...

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Should you inject Botox under the eye for jelly roll and eye-widening?

November 30, 2023

Should you inject Botox under the eye for jelly roll and eye-widening?

Patients often ask their aesthetic practitioner for botulinum toxin or Botox® treatment under the eye area to rid themselves of fine lines and wrinkl...

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Dermal fillers: the best and worst nasolabial fold injection points

November 20, 2023

Dermal fillers: the best and worst nasolabial fold injection points

A video of dermal filler injections to treat nasolabial folds was recently shared with Dr Tim Pearce by a fellow aesthetic clinician and it made him c...

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Male case study: beard hair loss after chin dermal filler

November 16, 2023

Male case study: beard hair loss after chin dermal filler

Complications and side effects from treating chins and jawlines with dermal fillers are much discussed, but recently a rare and strange side effect wa...

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SAVE – 35% Off with Full eLearning Package

November 9, 2023

SAVE – 35% Off with Full eLearning Package

If you are a medical professional working in aesthetics and committed to furthering your learning in aesthetics to make you a better practitioner and ...

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Jawline injection points, anatomy, and safety tips

November 6, 2023

Jawline injection points, anatomy, and safety tips

The jawline can be a very effective, but tricky area to treat, with many aesthetic clinicians excited to learn treatment during training, but soon ove...

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Injecting the glabella: Botox injection points & safety advice

October 30, 2023

Injecting the glabella: Botox injection points & safety advice

The glabella is a commonly injected area for patients in medical aesthetics, used to address the frown or eleven lines in between the brows, but it is...

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5 Botox mistakes you are making when treating older patients

October 23, 2023

5 Botox mistakes you are making when treating older patients

Older patients are more likely to experience side effects from botulinum toxin treatment than younger patients, including brow drop or ptosis, or ‘S...

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Temple lift complication: dermal filler-induced hair loss

October 16, 2023

Temple lift complication: dermal filler-induced hair loss

Recently there have been some interesting case studies reported in the field of aesthetic medicine citing a complication of alopecia after temple lift...

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Guide: The best lower face botulinum toxin (Botox) injection depths

October 12, 2023

Guide: The best lower face botulinum toxin (Botox) injection depths

Having recently covered the best botulinum toxin or Botox® injection depths for the upper face, many aesthetic clinicians asked Dr Tim for more guida...

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Common questions about dermal filler treatments

October 9, 2023

Common questions about dermal filler treatments

When starting out injecting dermal fillers, there are many questions that can arise which can leave you struggling for answers – What are dermal fil...

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How to safely transfer dermal filler into a BD syringe

October 2, 2023

How to safely transfer dermal filler into a BD syringe

In a recent blog, we looked at how to safely use a BD syringe for dermal filler treatments, including why and when Dr Tim Pearce uses this technique f...

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Dangers of Barbie Botox: should Trap Tox be done for aesthetics?

September 28, 2023

Dangers of Barbie Botox: should Trap Tox be done for aesthetics?

A new trend is causing controversy in medical aesthetics – Trap Tox or Barbie Botox – aimed at making the female neck and shoulders appear more fe...

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