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No Wrinkles in the US Market for Non-Invasive Aesthetic Devices

Aesthetic device sales were $520 million in 2006, according to US Markets for Energy-Based Aesthetics and Therapies, a report recently published by the Medtech Insight division of Windhover Information Inc., and are expected to reach approximately $1.2 billion in the year 2011. In addition to cultural factors, the minimally invasive nature of the new devices themselves, which result in lower treatment costs and shorter healing times, is helping to drive growth in the industry.

Beauty, as they say, is only skin deep, and that’s a good thing for a whole new industry that’s developed around the mission of rejuvenating—at least from the standpoint of appearance—the aging. This goal has given rise to a new medical device industry that has turned its engines of ingenuity to minimally invasive skin resurfacing, skin tightening, cellulite and hair and fat removal treatments. Aesthetic device sales were $520 million in 2006, according to US Markets for Energy-Based Aesthetics and Therapies, a report recently published by the Medtech Insight division of Windhover Information Inc., and are expected to reach approximately $1.2 billion in the year 2011. In addition to cultural factors, the minimally invasive nature of the new devices themselves, which result in lower treatment costs and shorter healing times, is helping to drive growth in the industry.

Energy-based aesthetic treatments use various forms of intense pulsed light, laser, plasma, radiofrequency, ultrasound or other forms of energy to perform a wide variety of fast, virtually painless non-invasive office-based...

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