The Aesthetic Shift Kelly Beasy and Emma Aylward

So with the dermoscopy, was there anything that sort of surprised you or you didn't expect when you started learning about dermoscopy? Because we

didn't have a dermoscopy before, but when we got it, it's like... kind of blows your mind when you look up close that close like I see skin every day I see faces and lines and wrinkles and pigment and vascular but when you look up that close at something under a dermoscope you're just like I get it it all starts to click what you're looking at the blood vessels that are feeding it I just think they're unreal if you don't have one it's especially in a Skin clinic, cosmetic, anything, I think everyone should have one and see what is actually happening.

It's a great idea.

Even if you don't have lasers, like if you're doing skin needling or something like that and people have that, that little red spot that's been there for months and it's just not healing, it won't go away, this pimple, you know, and we know that that's probably not a pimple, but you can have a little look under a dermatoscope and just reassure yourself or the patient that it is something, maybe it's not.

So we do, because obviously as an injectables clinic as well, we see most patients every three months for anti-wrinkle treatments.

So if I did notice something unusual, we can just whip out the dermoscope, take a photo because it links to the phone and go, well, I'm going to see you in three months anyway.

If that's changed, you're going straight and getting it checked.

If it's been there for a while, obviously, if it's new to them, then I'll send them straight away.

But it's so easy for us to just look over your patient.

Your patient feels safe and comfortable and Yeah, I think it's just something really nice that you can offer as well.

In addition, it adds value to your business.

Yeah, and I think it's an important point that you make that we see people every three months.

So we might see that things have changed.

And so is that your process now that you see something, you take a photo, you store it on their notes and then recheck, you know, when they come back in three months, there's that alert there to go, hey, check that little lesion.

Always.

Everything gets documented.

Everything gets photographed.

The dermascope, as soon as we see something untoward, absolutely get the dermascope out, connects to the phone.

It's so simple and easy.

And you're reassured also, because if we're treating anywhere near the area, I don't want to know something's changed and all of a sudden without picking it up, because that's our job, especially as nurses and healthcare professionals, you know, we should be on the ball with things like this.

Definitely.

Especially how often we get to see our patients.