Abstract
The need to be beautiful and to maintain a good appearance is linked to the condition of being human. But today, we also know that beauty as a concept must be linked to health. Aesthetic medicine has to accept the challenge of responding to the needs of patients who seek beauty: men and women of all ages and conditions and the patients with special needs, such as the ones that suffer chronic diseases or the oncological patient. We need to master the new therapeutic weapons that regenerative medicine offers so that it can be the great protagonist of the human engineering era, which is yet to come.
People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial.
That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is.
To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders.
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
(Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray)
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Tejero, P. (2019). Aesthetic Medicine: Trends, Patients’ Needs. In: Pinto, H., Fontdevila, J. (eds) Regenerative Medicine Procedures for Aesthetic Physicians. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15458-5_2
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