Using ultrasound needs time to learn, as with any new technology, but after these first steps, it will be like your third eye. In a few minutes of this dynamic examination, you will really understand the potential ultrasound has in your daily practice. In a pre-mapping procedures you can check vessels, highlight the presence of previous fillers products, observe the integration of hyaluronic acid in time, find threads under the skin, find anatomical asymmetry and many others conditions. Last but not the least, you can inject with echo guidance. Ultrasound can help you be sure of a patient’s aesthetic medicine history. Even if they say they haven’t had any procedures before, a look under the skin can highlight the presence of silicon, hyaluronic acid or other filler products. If you don’t check, you take the risk of complications.
Hugues Cartier, Dermatologist, Centre Médical Saint Jean, Arras, France