Treating the Latin American Aesthetic Patient: A Review

Ada Regina Trindade de Almeida,1 Patricia E Garcia,2 Raul Banegas,3 Silvia Zimbres,4 Carolina Martinez,5 Jan Frolik,6 Camila Cazerta de Paula Eduardo7 1Clínica Dermatológica, São Paulo, Brazil; 2Private Practice, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico; 3Banegas Estética Médica, Buenos Aires, Argentina; 4Clinica Doux, São Paulo, Brazil; 5Private Practice, Bogotá, Colombia; 6Allergan Aesthetics, an AbbVie Company, Irvine, CA, USA; 7Allergan Aesthetics, an AbbVie Company, São Paulo, BrazilCorrespondence: Ada Regina Trindade de Almeida, Clínica Dermatológica, Hospital do Servidor Público Municipal de São Paulo, Rua Turiassu, 390 - 11 Andar - Cj. 113/114, Perdizes, São Paulo/Sp - Cep, 05005-000, Brazil, Tel +55 11 3864-1816, Email [email protected]: The rich and diverse heritage of Latin American people contributes to a large variety of physical features, which translates to a patient population with a range of motivations for seeking cosmetic procedures and unique perspectives that influence their aesthetic preferences. As there is no one standard of beauty, it is important for physicians to understand the various factors that influence their patients’ perceptions of beauty and desires to seek cosmetic treatment, especially because patient preference may differ from the physician perspective. Physicians in Latin America must consider the demographic, ethnic, and cultural factors that influence their patients to ensure culturally sensitive treatment approaches, natural-looking results, and patient satisfaction. This review includes a discussion of published literature, combined with the expert opinion of the authors, to provide a detailed description of the elements that impact aesthetic perceptions of patients living across the Latin American diaspora and highlights important gaps in research for future studies to address.Keywords: aging, beauty, ethnicity, Hispanic, Latino, Latinx, physiology