Medical Spas offer wrinkle treatments, fillers, chemical peels, skin care, permanent make-up, lasers, and other non-surgical cosmetic treatments. Find those with the best and worst reviews on these tables:
Medical Spas are often associated with a plastic or cosmetic surgery practice, but they can also exist as stand-alone spas. Medical Spas have become increasingly popular as the demand for non-surgical cosmetic treatments has soared. This is great because it allows easy access to simple treatments that can be performed on your lunch hour with low cost and no down-time. On the other hand, none of these treatments are without risk. You should take this as seriously as you take any of your medical care. This is why we recommend that you look into any practitioner who offers these treatments.
NeuroToxin: Neurotoxins are used to weaken the muscles that cause certain wrinkles.
Fillers: Fillers are medical grade (approved) substances that are used to fill fine lines, wrinkles, and even deep creases and skin folds.
Lasers: Lasers are used to remove wrinkles, spider veins, tattoos, brown spots, red spots, unwanted hair, and pretty much anything else that has a color different than the surrounding skin.
Permanent Make-up: Permanent Make-up is the process of applying tattoos for make-up. It is most often used fro eye liner, lipstick, lip liner, and eye brows.
Chemical Peels: Chemical Peels are used to remove the top layer of skin, leaving a healthier brighter complexion. They can range dramatically in depth, effect, recovery, and cost. Basically, the deeper the peel, the more it costs, the longer the recovery, and the better the result.
Skin Care: Skin Care is the name given to products that clients can use at home to boost the results that they get from chemical peels and other treatments.
Cool-Sculpt: Coolsculpt, Exillis, Kybella, and other non-surgical treatments can permanently spot- reduce fat without the need for liposuction
SCORE: This is the average score given to that Medical Spa or Medical Director by the people who posted ratings on that site. Each site uses a scale from 1-5, with 5 being the highest rating possible.
#: This is the number of reviewers who posted ratings and reviews for the spa or Medical Director on that review site.
TOTAL: This is the Score x the number of people who rated the Medical Spa or Medical Director
TOTAL BOX Colors:
Grand total: This is the sum of the totals.
CLEAR BOXES: Empty white boxes indicate that we were unable to find ratings for that spa or Medical Director on that ratings site. Empty boxes neither count for nor against the total ratings.
* UNKNOWN MEDICAL DIRECTORS: If "Unknown" appears in the space for the name of the Medical Director, that is because the name of the medical director was not evident to us when we last visited the website. In every state, by law, a licensed physician must be backing the nurses and technicians who are performing the services, so there must be a Medical Director for each and every Medical-Spa. Most Medical-Spas list their Medical Director. The ones that do not may have a very good reason for this, in which case, this should not be a red flag. However, it must be considered that the reason for the Medical Director not being made public information on the website could be related to any of the following: the Medical Director may have little experience in the cosmetic industry; the Medical Director may have a questionable reputation and poor ratings; the Medical Director may change frequently at that Medical-Spa: the Medical Director may not want to be publicly associated with the Medical-Spa; or something else. There is no way to tell, but unless the identity of the Medical Director is made publicly available on the Medical-Spa's website, the question remains. It also remains a question as to who will see and treat clients who have problems resulting from treatments received at the Medical-Spa. So, if you do choose to seek services at any Medical-Spa, it might be worthwhile to ask who the Medical Director is and whether the Medical Director is routinely available to see clients who might have problems or complications. For all of these reasons, Medical-Spas with UNKNOWN Medical Directors are given a yellow rating. This doe not mean that these Medical-Spas provide poor or questionable service, it just means that this information is not available on their websites.
The review sites which Medi-Spa-Reviews.com considers the most reliable and most relevant were used for this website: Vitals.com, Healthgrades.com, Realself.com, and Google.com. Keep in mind that if a spa has received a low score, this does not mean that the spa delivers poor service or results. In fact, visitors to this site are encouraged to follow the links to each ratings site and read the actual reviews. This will not only provide a greater depth of information about each spa, but it will also be more current information. We are confident about the quality and accuracy of the ratings reported on this site, but we cannot guarantee accuracy of all data because data changes from day to day and because manual acquisition of large amounts of data can result in data entry errors. Also, ambiguity sometimes exists between the way in which a spa's name or Medical Director's name appears on the source websites and on the review sites, making data retrieval more difficult. For all of these reasons you should check out the ratings sites yourself to be sure that you are getting the latest reviews on each of the spas and their Medical Directors.
If you are the medical director of a medi-spa and your medi-spa does not appear on RatingHub.com and you would like it to appear here, we are happy to include you! Please send us a letter to that effect and include your full name, the name of your practice, the address of your practice, and the website of your practice. Please use your professional letterhead, have your letter notarized, and send it to Top Reviews, 1629 K Street NW, Suite 300, Washington DC, 20006. We will do our best to get you listed on our website within 30 business days.