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Cosmetology is a branch of science that deals with the study of aesthetic problems a person's appearance. Cosmetology develops methods for their detection and correction, and examines its etiology and manifestations. Science is rapidly developing every year learning all the new methods of dealing with the aesthetic problems and defects in appearance.

Beauty is closely associated with many medical branches, such as: dermatology, physiology, physiotherapy, orthopedics, surgery, etc. This science is represented by two child branches of therapeutic and surgical cosmetology.


Who is the beautician?

Beautician is a specialist that uses diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitation techniques to compensate and to resume the structure of human tissue – the dermis, nails, hair, muscles, mucous membranes.

A cosmetologist deals with aesthetic problems, identifies their causes, and helps to get rid of them. Professional can be considered only by the beautician who is not only on a regular basis confirms existing qualifications, but also increases it by mastering modern methods of work.

Cosmetologist or dermatologist is a specialist with a diploma of higher medical education. The activities of this specialist aimed at determining skin type, on the detection of defects on it and fixing them. For getting rid of defects used medicines and minor surgical techniques.

Plastic surgeon is a professional with higher medical education who has the right to perform complex surgery.

As for cosmetologist-estetista, it specialist, which may not have higher medical education. It doesn't give him the right to work in medical institutions, and only in establishments of the type of hairdressers or beauty salons. He can not perform complex manipulations with the violation of the integral covers or to appoint drugs for the treatment of skin diseases. Available procedure is waxing, masking, carrying peelings, face cleaning, etc.


What is beautician?

The main activity of this specialist is to maintain youth and beauty of their patients of any gender.

Beautician restores and corrects his methods available to the skin, nails, hair and subcutaneous fat:

  • Using conservative methods. This specialist uses various ointments, injections, solutions, lotions, creams, gels, etc. All of these products are either applied on the problem areas. Auxiliary methods of conservative therapy are massage, therapeutic baths and showers.
  • Using surgical methods. They are used only in the case if the defect is serious and fix it with the help of conservative methods of treatment fail. It can be scarring, adhesions, benign, acquired and congenital defects, affecting the quality of human life.
  • By using hardware methods. To implement them use special medical equipment that could have an impact on the deeper layers of the dermis.

In addition, the beautician is engaged in the promotion of a healthy lifestyle, give advice on proper nutrition, sleep and wakefulness, physical activity, etc. Beautician carries out the selection of funds for regular maintenance of skin, nails, hair. To prevent skin defects can be recommended courses of therapy on the devices, preventive linfodrenaggio and immunostimulating techniques, selected on an individual basis.

During the appointment, the beautician questioned the man on the subject of the complaints, performs inspection.

You can perform the following procedures, if there are no contraindications:

  • Laser therapy;
  • Magnetic therapy;
  • Electrotherapy;
  • Treatment currents;
  • Performing depilation;
  • Conducting Phono - electrophoresis;
  • Different types of acne;
  • The application of medicinal masks, gels and other means;
  • Darsonvalization;
  • To perform massage;
  • Peels;
  • UFO.

In addition to non-invasive procedures, the terms of office of this expert it is possible to perform the following procedures:

  • The introduction of Botox, human collagen, bovine collagen, hyaluronic acid, polylactic acid, etc.;
  • Introductionown adipose tissue, this is called lipolifting;
  • Correction scar tissue by injection;
  • The implementation of median peeling;
  • The introduction of drugs.

What diseases cures beautician?

A specialist can engage in therapy of different diseases which affect the hair, skin and nails.

Among these pathologies:

  • Acne (black, common, white acne);
  • Demodicosis; (see also: causes and symptoms of Demodex)

  • Removal of nevi;
  • Treatment of viral skin diseases: lichen, papillomas, herpes lesions;
  • Treatment of mycotic diseases of nails and dermis: microsporia, trichophytosis, etc.;
  • The removal of actinic keratoses;
  • Removing corns and calluses, getting rid of the foot from cracking;
  • Treatment of diaper rash;
  • Therapy dermatitis;
  • Removal of hemangiomas;

In addition, the beautician can help to eliminate wrinkles, or to recommend means for their prevention, if the skin aging process is not running.

When you need to go to the beautician?

That the time has come for referral to a specialist, each person decides for themselves. However, it should be remembered that to delay treatment of diseases of hair, skin or nail is dangerous. It threatens the transition of the acute phase of the disease in the chronic and the development of complications in the future.

Among the alarming signs that should make people come on consultation to the expert, the following:

  • The appearance of skin rashes.
  • Swelling of the skin.
  • Long incessant itching of the skin.
  • Occasional boils, abscesses.
  • The appearance of moles and their increase in size.
  • The appearance of acne, etc.

Cosmetician-dermatologist will perform a skin examination or other surface on which the patient has complaints and prescribe a specific treatment. It can be both conservative and surgical. Beautician often sends the patient to pass additional tests, allowing not onlyto clarify the diagnosis, but to find a treatment that will not bring harm. Before surgery testing is mandatory. If necessary, the patient shall be redirected to other, more specialist. Often people with problem skin, nail, hair, requires examination of gastroenterology, infectious diseases, endocrinologist, gynecologist. They can expand the list of studies and assign treatment, which necessarily must be reported to the beautician.


The tests that are assigned by the beautician

Depending on the specific situation, a list of recommended analyses can be expanded or reduced:

  1. KLA.

  2. OAM.

  3. TANK + study of glucose and lipoproteins.

  4. The analysis of a feces on a dysbacteriosis.

  5. A blood test for hormones.

  6. A blood test for the virus.

May be required to perform ultrasound examination of the abdominal cavity, organs of small pelvis, etc.


Methods of diagnosis applied by a beautician

Specialist has in its Arsenal of non-invasive techniques that allow to define a particular aesthetic problem.

Among them:

  • Trichoscopy allows to estimate the condition of the hair, hair follicles and the scalp;
  • Dermatoscopy, which allows to evaluate both surface and deep layers of the skin, as well as giving information about the status of nevi, the condition of the nails and the diseases;
  • Ultrasound of skin and subcutaneous fat, allowing to identify the various pathologies of the dermis and their stage of development (nevi, fibromas, fibrolipoma, ossification, lipomas, hematomas, etc.);
  • Confocal microscopy, allowing the layers to scan the surface of the dermis that provides information close to the histological examination;
  • The measurement of skin oiliness by salumeria, which gives information about the sebaceous glands (on the reduction or increase in their activity, which can lead to various diseases, for example, seborrheic dermatitis); (see also: Seborrheic dermatitis)

  • OCT, enables the use of optical tomography to obtain information aboutsostoyanii tonkih sloev kozhi, slizistyh, zubov;
  • vypolnenie bioimpedansnogo analiza, pozvolyaushij ocenit kolichestvo zhirovoj tkani, krovi, limfy, vnutrikletochnoj zhidkosti, zhidkosti v otekah, imt, skorost obmena veshestv i prochie vazhnye dannye o sostoyanii cheloveka.

rekomendacii kosmetologa

konsultaciya kosmetologa napravlena ne tolko na poisk problemy i metodov dlya ee ustraneniya. vizit k doktoru mozhet nosit profilakticheskij harakter, s celu polucheniya vazhnyh rekomendacij, posle individualnogo osmotra sostoyaniya kozhi, volos, nogtej i pr.

obshie zhe sovety etih specialistov svodyatsya k tomu, chto neobhodimo:

  • vesti aktivnyj obraz zhizni i ne prenebregat fizicheskimi nagruzkami;
  • pravilno pitatsya;
  • znat svoj tip kozhi i volos, v sootvetstvii s chem, podbirat sredstva dlya uhoda za nimi;
  • ne lozhitsya spat s nanesennymi na lico sredstvami dekorativnoj kosmetiki;
  • ne zagorat bez primeneniya solncezashitnyh sredstv;
  • ne pereohlazhdat kozhu i volosy;
  • pri vozniknovenii simptomov bolezni obrashatsya za pomoshu k specialistu.