The branch of medicine concerned with the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases of the skin, hair, nails, oral cavity and ge****ls.
2. Sometimes also, cosmetic care and enhancement. Dermatology is literally the study of the skin. We attempt to take our patient’s skin challenges a little further and address both internal and external factors supporting proper skin-care.
“It is the rare practitioner who has not seen patients who have used folk remedies, herbal medicines, acupuncture, diet, hypnosis, biofeedback, or other remedies outside of traditional allopathic medicine in pursuit of relief from, or cure of, their skin disease. The high percentage of the population who use complementary therapies and the extraordinary number of visits to unconventional medical practitioners, a number that is estimated to exceed the number of visits to primary care physicians, have stimulated us to become more knowledgeable about these areas and to evaluate such practices in an effort to improve our care of patients and to integrate truly helpful remedies into patient care.”
- The National Institutes of Health, Office of Alternative Medicine.
