Dermatocosmetology and pharmacotherapy: systemic effect on the body
Use of sebosuppressive and antibacterial drugs
Today, there are effective means and methods of medical treatment, injection technologies, peelings with varying degrees of damage to the integrity of the skin, and hardware methods. Nevertheless, modern dermatocosmetology cannot be imagined without pharmacological agents that have a systemic effect on the body (including the skin). That is why a dermatocosmetologist simply needs knowledge of pharmacotherapy.
All age groups need cosmetology care, which is a natural consequence of the high prevalence of cosmetic skin defects, genetically determined or acquired as a result of the influence of various endogenous and exogenous factors.
The rapid development of cosmetology and the formation of aesthetic medicine contributes to the improvement of methods of diagnosis and treatment of cosmetic defects, diseases of the skin and its appendages, rehabilitation of the skin after certain dermatoses and invasive manipulations. Application of cosmetics and procedures in case of patients' aesthetic problems (acne, melasma, seborrhea, hair loss, correction of age-related skin changes) it is often combined with the appointment of drugs with various effects - sebosuppressive (retinoids), antibacterial (antibiotics), hormonal (antiandrogen blockers, contraceptives), metabolic (vitamins), etc.
Pharmacotherapy is also necessary for the prevention or elimination of complications after cosmetic procedures, plastic surgeries, which have recently increasingly become the object of legal attention and extensive (and, as a rule, negative) discussion in the mass media.
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