Injectables audit reveals success rates of different aesthetics practitioners

Dr Ros Jabar has put together an audit to provide evidence of the correlation between the qualification of an aesthetician, and their success rate for procedures.

Ros Medics, Dr Jabar’s clinic, reviewed its client services data for three practitioners and a fourth ‘external’ unidentified practitioner detail for the three years pre-covid-19. Their practitioners were a doctor, a nurse, and a beautician with five years of experience each, with the external practitioner otherwise unidentified.

Due to the lack of official national guidelines, Ros Medics created a standard by interpreting the JCCP and the Cosmetic Practice Standards Authority. The standard was critical of the quality of the treatment and products, and the customer’s perception of the treatment was also considered.

The success rates showed that the aesthetic doctor had the highest success rate of 94%, with the nurse and beautician not far behind at 73.8% and 71.4% respectively. The external practitioner however had a 0% success rate.

The audit also looked at complications from injectable treatments, like asymmetry, brow droop, excessive bruising, infection, ‘spocking’ (when anti-wrinkle forehead treatments cause only the outer parts of the eyebrow to lift), weakened muscles, and a general lack of satisfactory results. The external practitioner had at least one of these complications with all their recorded procedures.