What Is a Medical Spa and Are They Safe?

A medical spa combines the traditional services a spa offers with medical procedures that were only available in doctor's offices. These facilities employ the usual spa professionals, such as aestheticians. They also employ medical professionals, such as doctors, PAs, or nurse practitioners, who perform the medical procedures.

There are many reasons to go to medical spa instead of a traditional spa or doctor's office. One of the most obvious benefits of this is, of course, that you can have all of your cosmetic work done in one place, often in one day, instead of having to make appointments at multiple locations. This allows you to arrange for things like waxing and laser hair removal on the same day, instead of making multiple appointments, for example.

Another reason the combination makes sense is that some cosmetic procedures really do straddle the line between medical and non-medical while other types of procedures may have medical and non-medical versions. Laser hair removal, for example, can legally be performed by an aesthetician, but if it is performed by a medical professional, they will most likely be better at determining how much numbing agent is necessary and safe to use, or when the procedure has gone awry and needs to be stopped for health and safety reasons. It's also better for customer choice to have both types of procedures available. If you're interested in rejuvenating your skin, for example, it's good to be able to choose from all your options whether they are medical, like a chemical peel, or non-medical, like a good exfoliating scrub.

Of course, you can expect to find a different menu of services at every facility. Some medical spas offer many medical procedures while others offer only one or two in addition to their regular spa and juvederm Ottawa services. Regardless of what else they do or don't offer, you won't find many invasive surgical procedures available at a medical spa. Even though they are cosmetic, these surgeries are real medical procedures and must be done in medical facilities. To find the right facility for you, look at the menu of services on offer and select a business that offers all of the procedures you normally have done.

The safety of having a medical procedure done in a botox cosmetic ottawa spa setting is understandably a concern for many people. Like most things, that depends entirely on the facility at which you have the procedures done and who is doing them. In general, it's best to look for a facility that has a full-time medical professional on staff or that performs the medical procedures him or herself. This is definitely preferable to a facility at which the medical professional signs off on the work done by non-licensed employees. It's also good to do your research on the spa ahead of time by checking reviews and doing some basic research on the doctor who works there.