Aesthetic Medicine: towards defining its own clinical role and necessary discipline

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Emanuele Bartoletti
Giorgia Viola Lacasella
Karidia Karaboue
Loredana Cavalieri

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aesthetic medicine

Abstract

Aesthetic Medicine is a medical discipline whose aim is to promote the overall health of individuals, understood as psychophysical well-being linked to the concept of living well with oneself at any age. The construction of this balance is achieved through a program of social, preventive, curative, and rehabilitative medicine.

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