Managing the Aesthetic Patient

The number of cosmetic filler and botulinum toxin options available in the Brazilian market has increased over the past years. With a wide variety of therapeutic options, some challenges have arisen: designing an adequate treatment plan, electing the most suitable procedures for the patient, taking into consideration the rheological characteristics of the products, considering the amount needed to achieve a natural look, but also defining the safest way to deliver the treatment. Aging of the facial structural tissue layers occurs at a different pace and the requirements for the aesthetic approach of a 30-year-old patient are different from a 60-year-old patient. A group of twelve experts in minimally invasive injectable procedures sought to identify common changes observed in different age groups in order to help in establishing a plan of treatment for patients of different ages. The individualized aesthetic plan should consider the main pillars of the aesthetic treatment-aging process, facial assessment, and facial anatomy, to identify and systematize common changes observed in different age groups, as well as the safest and most reproducible techniques, especially for new injectors.