EPISODE 9
BOTOX, BEAUTY & SELF-ESTEEM: UNFILTERING THE AESTHETICS INDUSTRY
GP & AESTHETIC DOCTOR, DR RORY BOUD
There’s a rise in mental health and self-esteem issues, particularly among the youngest generations - is the aesthetics industry exacerbating the problem or part of the solution?
Dr Rory Boud’s extensive experience, training and firm moral compass allow him to safely help clients with confidence, having founded RKB Aesthetics in 2014. Such integrity makes him a perfect person to consider whether the wider industry upholds the same standards…
This week we’re going Off Script with Rory and uncovering the weirdest, riskiest treatments, the science behind universal beauty, and whether aesthetics can be a force for good in combating mental wellbeing issues.
This episode covers:
The aesthetic industry’s role in mental wellbeing, for better or for worse
Science behind what makes someone universally attractive
The weirdest treatments and riskiest procedures
Revolutionary new methods of medical weight loss
Balancing commercial and moral obligations as an aesthetician
EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS
“If we were to inject filler at any point within the retinal artery, we would occlude the artery, there would be no blood supply downstream, and you can effectively cause blindness. Now, I know that sounds horrendously scary, but there's ways we can mitigate that risk of complication.”
34:00 - Dr Rory Boud
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“My friend’s mum had been a GP, and she had ended up in the world of aesthetics, doing predominantly Botox and fillers. I said it sounded like nothing I would ever be interested in, but could I see what she does? From the moment the first patient came in with her, I loved it instantly.” - 7:25 - Dr Rory Boud
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“BMI is a tricky one, because when I was in med school, I had a friend who was five foot nothing and absolutely stacked, but his BMI - because of his muscle to height ratio - said he was morbidly obese, which he clearly wasn't. But we do need some kind of gross measure.” - 14:00 - Dr Rory Boud
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“I think the thing that I care about when it comes to any practitioner, regardless of whether they're a doctor, a beautician, or have no aesthetic background, is the safety element.” - 20:30 - Dr Rory Boud
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“We can emphasise things by what we call parallel lines of beauty. So we see that nature, we see it in speed stripes on cars, it’s why I cut my beard here so that it looks more accentuated along the jawline. So this is what we try to achieve when we use filler.” - 27:05 - Dr Rory Boud
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“If you are regularly using a car, you have a 1 in 80 chance of a fatal road accident in your lifetime. When we talk about risk, we try to give perspective, and the risk of just a standard vascular occlusion anywhere that we can reverse is about 1 in 6,500 - so that’s pretty good, actually.” - 38:25 - Dr Rory Boud
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“If someone wants to change something, and no matter how good my skill set is, if I can't change that because their feeling on that is related to a self-esteem issue, or mental health issue, it's not going to be what I can do with a syringe or a laser or anything like that, because that isn't going to change their circumstance or how they feel around it.” - 40:35 - Dr Rory Boud
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“I always feel what I do is in my patients best interests. I'll be honest with them if it's something that I offer, and I still don't think it's right for them for whatever reason. I'll say to them that I don't think this is in your best interest. I have to be a voice of reason when it comes to these things, and it just has to be a line in the sand that I just don't cross.” - 48:35 - Dr Rory Boud
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“People's intuition when they go to someone and they talk to you about what it is they will do, how much they're going to charge, what the process is, what the risks are, what the downtime, explaining all that to them - if they were to walk out and say that something didn't feel right, trust that sixth sense. Don't do it.” - 57:30 - Dr Rory Boud