How many people will be in the practical session?

This video is part of our new FAQ series. Mr Adrian Richards, the medical director of Cosmetic Courses talks here about how many people will be in the practical session, highlighting the reasons behind these numbers. The day is broken up into different sections and you will be in larger groups initially before breaking into smaller groups for the practical part of the course.

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How do I get hold of the product following my course?

This video is part of our new FAQ series with Mr Adrian Richards. Here he talks about how you go about getting hold of product following your course.

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Do cosmetic courses offer ongoing business support?

Mr Richards answers a question on ongoing business support as part of our FAQ series. Despite it not having relevance to actual cosmetic treatments, it is a very common question we receive. He informs you of the business support you will receive during and after the course.

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Can you choose which treatments you would like to be trained in?

Mr Richards answers another FAQ we get regularly, about choosing your areas of study. Of course you may choose the treatments and specific areas of study you would like to be trained in, as some treatments we offer may not be useful to you and your practice, however the foundation course is where everyone should begin, as it gives you a good base for the treatments you are learning and perfecting.

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Can overseas medical professionals train in cosmetic courses?

Mr Adrian Richards, the medical director of Cosmetic Courses talks here about whether overseas medical professionals can train here with Cosmetic Courses in this latest instalment of our FAQ series.

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Treatment for Deep Peri-Oral Lines

In this short video we see lead trainer of Cosmetic Courses and Aesthetic Nurse Mel Recchia answer the FAQ; How do I best treat deep peri-oral lines?

Transcript:

Deep peri-oral lines are quite a common problem, especially as we age. What happens is that as we age, the white lip, the long part of the lip, starts to get longer, the pink of the lip starts to turn in, the skin itself becomes thin, we lose this kind of underlying support from the bones and the teeth, so generally that’s when you start to get more obvious lines in the area. I think the first thing to say to your patients is that you have to be very realistic about the potential outcome of this treatment and you can’t completely eliminate the peri-oral lines, but you can certainly make them look better, softer and probably prevent them from getting worse. Botox can be very useful for deep peri-oral lines but you have to be careful because you don’t want to restrict  the movement of the orbicularis oris muscle, but it can be helpful in preventing the sort of puckering of the muscle and this can soften the lines. The lines however are primarily there through movement so probably Botox is going to be a good treatment to try. If you’re looking at Dermal fillers, you may need to consider a two filler approach, so you are probably going to need to actually support and increase the definition of the vermillion border and this will create a little edge for the lip. Once you’ve done that and you’ve actually improved the shape of the lip, the pink of the lip, sometimes then, by that alone, the lines themselves will look better but once you’ve done that, you can then use perhaps a softer filler to actually inject into the peri-oral lines and the hydration from the light soft filler will make the lines softer. You could also consider and advise other skin treatments; skin peels, dermaroller, these kind of treatments will also help to improve the skin condition in this area. But it is quite a challenging area to treat. We used to very much just put the filler into the lines, but unfortunately we were creating quite distorted lip shapes, what we now try to do is actually improve the lip shape, which in turn makes the lines lip better and less obvious but I think it’s worth telling your patient that we need to be realistic with this and it may take a number of treatments until those lines are really improved, and also look at the other areas of the face as well because sometimes if you improve the mid face volume, you actually can make that area look better as well.

If you would like further information of if you have any questions regarding our Dermal Filler and Botox Training please don’t hesitate to contact the team on 01844 390 110  or send us an email.

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How do I know if my patient has an infection following dermal fillers and how do I treat this?

In this short video we see Lead Trainer of Cosmetic Courses and Aesthetic Nurse Mel Recchia answer the FAQ; How do I know if my patient has an infection following dermal fillers, specifically infected lip filler and how do I treat this?

Transcript:

If your patient contacts you following a dermal filler treatment and they think they’ve got a problem, which potentially could be an infection, you will need to deal with this. Now in the first instance you would get them probably over the phone to sort of describe to you the symptoms and the sensations that they’re feeling and how the area is presenting, if they live near to you then you would get them to come into the clinic and review them, if they live some distance from you then I think it’s perfectly acceptable in the first instance for them to send you some photographs and you can have a look at the areas, but it is very difficult to see from a photograph what the problem may be so  ideally you should actually see them in person. For an infection, what you will be looking for is the general sort of symptoms that you have for any skin infection, so you’re likely to see swelling, redness, heat, tenderness, possibly exudate’s  depending at what stage of the infection you’re at, so you just generally need to look out for the usual signs of a skin infection and then you will deal with this appropriately with antibiotics, so you would need to check their medical history to make sure that they’re not allergic to anything and you would choose your antibiotic on the basis of their medical history and the needs of the potential infection.

If you have any questions regarding infected lip filler or our Dermal Filler and Botox Training and would like further information please don’t hesitate to contact the team on 01844 390 110  or send us an email.

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How would I treat Eyelid Ptosis and Brow Ptosis?

In this short video we see Lead Trainer of Cosmetic Courses and Aesthetic Nurse Mel Recchia answer the FAQ; How would I treat eyelid ptosis brow ptosis?

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If your patient presents with a brow or eyelid ptosis, you need to establish whether it is a brow ptosis or a eyelid ptosis. Quite often patients will just refer to a lid ptosis or a heavy eyebrow, but to treat accurately you need to know exactly which it is. So, if it’s a brow ptosis, so this would be a heavy or a dropped brow, this is going to be due to your placement of Botox, either in terms of where you’ve put it, or actually in fact the doses that you’ve used. If you have a brow ptosis it is very difficult to retract that with further treatment, but there are steps that you can take to try to make it slightly less heavy. That would involve making sure that you have adequately treated the glabella area, so make sure that the glabella area is completely still because it’s by relaxing the depressor muscles here that you will then allow a little bit of elevation of the brow so this will help to lift the brow back into place. The other area that you can add a little bit of additional toxin if you feel that there’s a heavy brow is just at the lateral tail end of the orbicularis oculi just under the eyebrow, so a small dose just in here will relax the depressor portion of the orbicularis oculi and that can have an effect of helping to raise the eyebrow, but once a muscle has been relaxed with Botox, it is very difficult to reactivate it, but there are small steps that you can do. Now if it’s a lid ptosis, where the actual eyelid is obviously closing and you will see this very clearly, there are some drops called iopidine that you can use, now these drops, they are an alpha two receptor agonist, you put them into the eye as drops now they’re not licensed for this use and they’re actually for glaucoma you need to advise your patient that they can have the drops, you can give them a prescription for the drops, but you must suggest that they don’t use them all the time and they perhaps only use them for maybe a meeting or a special occasion because of side effects. What the drops will do, a side effect of the drugs is that they cause the contraction of the muller muscle which is the Superior tarsal muscle which is the eyelid muscle, so you will get a temporary sort of lift of the eyelid so it will correct the ptosis. Unfortunately the effects will be there until the Botox has worn off, so you really just have to support your patient through the process. You usually find however, that a lip ptosis or a brow ptosis will resolve before the rest of the Botox has worn off, but the main thing to stress to your patients is that it will wear off and they will completely return to normal.

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Juvederm Vycross vs Juvederm Ultra | Dermal Filler Differences

In this short video we see Lead Trainer of Cosmetic Courses and Aesthetic Nurse Mel Recchia answer the FAQ; How does the Juvederm Vycross range differ to the Juvederm Ultra range of dermal fillers?

Transcript:

So Allergan has two ranges of hyaluronic acid filler, their Juvedern Ultra range, which was the first generation of hyaluronic acid fillers and then they have the Vycross range, which is a relatively new range, this is the second generation. They both have their place within your aesthetic practice and the differences really are the actual manufacturing process, so they have slight differences within the high molecular weight, low molecular weight and also the cross linking. So the Vycross range has been designed to be slightly longer lasting then the Juvederm Ultra, it is slightly more expensive so the price point may be an indicator of which product you’re going to chose for your patient, and every one of these products has it’s own place in terms of how you use it. You can interchange them and it really id just that the Juvederm Ultra was the first generation and the Vycross range is the second generation of product. Vycross range lasts slightly longer and it does seem to sort of integrate into the skin tissues slightly more effectively and can create a softer look so depending on the treatment outcomes, depending on what areas you want to use it, that will determine which product that you use.

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How do I maintain my NMC Registration following Botox Training?

In this short video we see lead Trainer at Cosmetic Courses and Aesthetic Nurse Mel Recchia answer the FAQ; How do I maintain my NMC registration following botox training?

Transcript

one question that does come up from nurses particularly is about revalidation. So when you work for the NHS you obviously have to be registered as well with the NMC, the Nursing and Midwifery Council, you have to maintain your NMC registration and this is no different as an aesthetic practitioner, you still have to be registered with the NMC so you still have to fulfil all of the guidelines and requirements of that registration recently they have changed the process of revalidation so some nurses have been worried that if they don’t work in the NHS how are they going to be able to do this it’s perfectly possible to do this and if you look closely at the requirements you will find that you will fulfill all of those requirements in your aesthetic practice, you still have to connect your CPD points, your continuing professional development points and certainly with cosmetic courses you will obtain your CPD points but you will also get CPD points from going to the conferences some journals that you read will often use CPD points for reading articles so there is no worry about your registration and your revalidation and if you look closely at the requirements you will find that it is perfectly possible to revalidate and the British association of cosmetic Nurses have worked very closely with the NMC in setting up some of these guidelines as well so so you can maintain and you have to maintain your registration.

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