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Vol 1 · Issue 8 · August 2026

August 2026 · 3 articles.

1. Literature Review

   The HSI Mini Scale: A Four-Domain Assessment of Skin, Movement, Support and Descent

   Dr Ahmed Haq

   A proposed four-domain facial examination — skin quality, muscle and movement, volume and support, laxity and descent — scored 0–3 and reported as a phenotype (S–M–V–D) with a named dominant driver, rather than summed into a single ageing score.

   Published 10 Aug 20261 AiCE pointFull text

2. Literature Review

   The Three-Layer Filler Model: Depth as the Anatomy of Injection

   Dr Ahmed Haq

   A review article arguing that, because the injector cannot verify vascular anatomy through intact skin, filler practice should be organised around depth — the needle in the dermis, the cannula in the subcutaneous plane and the needle on the periosteum — with the deep fat deliberately excluded as a routine target.

   Published 8 Aug 20261 AiCE pointFull text

3. Literature Review

   The Three-Cell Model of Skin Rejuvenation: A Simplified Cellular Framework for Aesthetic Practice

   Dr Ahmed Haq

   A review article proposing a deliberately reductive teaching framework in which non-surgical skin rejuvenation is organised around three resident cells — the fibroblast, the melanocyte and the keratinocyte — and every common intervention is mapped to the cellular behaviour it modulates.

   Published 7 Aug 20261 AiCE pointFull text