IAPAM - Aesthetic Medicine CME Education



	Aesthetic Medicine CME Courses
	The IAPAM has the most comprehensive aesthetic medicine CME course available. This is a partial listing of the CME courses you will have access to as an Accredited Member. Currently there are over 70 Category 1 AMA PRA credits.


	BOTOX® Injections to Improve Facial Aesthetics
	Aging is associated with the development of lines and wrinkles caused by actinic damage, gravitational effect, sleep lines, and muscular action. Mimetic facial musculature may undergo hypertrophy secondary to hyperfunctional pull. BOTOX® injections reduce facial lines caused by hyperfunctional muscles. They also are used to contour aspects of the face such as the brows.

	Dermal Fillers
	Soft tissue augmentation has become a popular means of addressing contour defects that result from aging, photodamage, trauma and/or scarification, or disease. Dozens of filling agents exist in the armamentarium; therefore, the physician is responsible for knowing which substance is best suited to address a particular defect and the patient.

	Lip Augmentation
	Cosmetic lip augmentation consists of the enlargement and reshaping of otherwise normal upper and/or lower lips to improve their dimensional relation with the patient's nose, teeth, and surrounding facial structures. The appearance of the lips is determined by the spatial relation of the lip structures with the teeth in a 3-dimensional space and by their function during animation and speech.

	Lip Implants
	The lips thin as people age, and the wet line moves caudally in reference to the dentition. In addition, the oral commissures begin to downturn. These thin, flat, and poorly defined lips impart a sense of age. Specific procedures address each of these labial-aging signs. Some of these procedures include augmentation to help restore full, well-defined, and proportional lips that impart a sense of beauty and youth.

	Laser Hair Removal
	Up to 22% of women in North America have excessive or unwanted facial hair, which negatively affects the quality of life for many individuals. Men also feel compelled to rid themselves of unwanted body hair, as dictated by popular culture and appearance anxieties.

	Laser Treatment of Leg Veins
	Public interest in laser and light treatment of leg veins is high, and, under the right circumstances, excellent results can be achieved with this treatment modality. With any laser or light source treatment, reverse pressure from associated reticular or varicose veins must be recognized and eliminated, or treatment will be doomed to fail. Many patients benefit from a combination of treatments because lasers and light sources do not effectively treat associated reticular and varicose veins. Lasers can be effective in treating vessels resistant to sclerotherapy and telangiectatic matting, which can occur postsclerotherapy.

	Varicose Veins and Spider Veins
	Varicose veins and telangiectasia (spider veins) are the visible surface manifestations of an underlying venous insufficiency syndrome. Venous insufficiency syndromes allow venous blood to escape from a normal flow path and flow ...

	Sclerotherapy
	Sclerotherapy remains the primary treatment for small-vessel varicose disease of the lower extremity. These small vessels include telangiectasias, venules, and reticular veins. Telangiectasias are flat, red vessels smaller than 1 mm in diameter. Venules and reticular veins are blue and smaller than 2 mm, whereas reticular veins are 2-4 mm. Large varicosities do not respond as well as small varicosities to sclerotherapy.

	Laser Revision of Scars
	Scars are common complications of wound healing that affect millions of individuals. Although pigmentary and vascular alterations often are transient, textural changes caused by collagen disruption often are permanent.

	Tattoo Lasers
	The Q-switched Nd:YAG laser was explored in anticipation that its longer wavelength (1064 nm) would increase dermal penetration and decrease melanin absorption, thus improving the response of QSRL-resistant tattoos and avoiding pigmentary changes.

	Non-ablative Skin Tightening
	Reduction of rhytids and skin laxity can significantly contribute to improving overall facial appearance. Dermabrasion, chemical peels, and resurfacing lasers (eg, carbon dioxide laser, erbium:yttrium-aluminum-garnet [Er:YAG] laser) are the current mainstays of ablative facial resurfacing.

	Skin Resurfacing, Chemical Peels
	The application of chemicals to the skin is a well-described method to attempt to restore a more youthful appearance. Chemical peeling is the chemical removal of layers of skin to improve dermatologic defects.

	Chemical Peels
	The chemical peel produces a controlled partial thickness injury to the skin. Following the insult to the skin, a wound healing process ensues that can regenerate epidermis from surrounding epithelium and adnexal structures, decrease solar elastosis, and replace and reorient the new dermal connective tissue. The result is an improved clinical appearance of the skin, with fewer rhytides and decreased pigmentary dyschromia.

	Skin Lightening and Depigmenting Agents
	Determining the cause of the hyperpigmentation is important in selecting the best approach for treatment. Based on the history and clinical findings of the patient, the etiology of the hyperpigmentation may include postinflammatory hyperpigmentation, drugs, photosensitizing agents, ultraviolet light, or systemic disease (eg, Addison disease, liver disease, pregnancy, pituitary tumors). In order to adequately treat the pigmentary disorder, the causative agent should be determined and managed.

	Microdermabrasion
	Many modalities can resurface the skin to improve skin quality, reduce age spots, soften fine lines, and treat acne or other scars. Modalities include traditional dermabrasion, chemical peeling, laser resurfacing, and microdermabrasion. The microdermabrasion technique abrades ...

	Acne Vulgaris
	Acne vulgaris is a common skin disease that affects 85-100% of people at some time during their lives.It is characterized by noninflammatory follicular papules or comedones and by inflammatory papules, pustules, and nodules in its more severe forms. Acne vulgaris affects the areas of skin with the densest population of sebaceous follicles; these areas include the face, the upper part of the chest, and the back. is a common skin disease that affects 85-100% of people at some time during their lives.It is characterized by noninflammatory follicular papules or comedones and by inflammatory papules, pustules, and nodules in its more severe forms. Acne vulgaris affects the areas of skin with the densest population of sebaceous follicles; these areas include the face, the upper part of the chest, and the back.

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