Aesthetics Academy Aesthetic medicine reference

Procedures

Treatment areas and injectable techniques described for reference: the anatomy involved, what the technique aims to achieve, and the risks documented for each region.

Each entry covers one treatment area or technique. The focus is anatomical and descriptive — what structures sit in the region, what the approach is intended to do, and which complications the literature associates with it.

Frown lines and the glabellar complex

Anatomy of corrugator and procerus, the mechanism of eyelid ptosis after glabellar treatment, and why this region leads the reported blindness series.

How to store and reconstitute Botox

Cold chain, reconstitution principles, why units are product-specific and never interchangeable, and how UK prescription-only status shapes handling.

Platysmal bands and turkey neck

Platysma anatomy, what relaxation can and cannot achieve, why skin laxity is not a toxin problem, and the risks of deep or excessive neck treatment.

Smokers lines and perioral rhytids

Orbicularis oris as a sphincter, the labial arteries near the wet-dry border, and the functional cost of weakening a muscle used for speech and …