Regenerative aesthetics is the category everyone wants to add this year. Before you book a course on the strength of a conference talk, it helps to grade what you are actually buying.
Polynucleotides and PDRN
These are being marketed as a skin primer, a first step in skin optimisation, and they have become popular for under-eye and crepey skin. There is a plausible mechanism and a growing clinical following. The honest position is cautious optimism: useful in the right hands, oversold as a cure-all, and worth learning properly rather than from a single-day add-on. Our PRP and polynucleotides guide covers indications and the consent conversation.
Exosomes are the grey area
This is where you need to be careful. No exosome product currently holds regulatory approval for aesthetic use in the UK. That does not make the science uninteresting, but it does mean the marketing has run ahead of the regulatory position, and that is a governance risk you carry personally if you offer it. Save Face framed 2026 around the rise of regenerative medicine and safety in the same breath, which tells you where the sensible centre of gravity sits.
How to decide what to add
Ask three plain questions of any regenerative treatment. What is the evidence, and at what grade? What is its regulatory status right now, this month? And can you consent a patient honestly about both? If a course glosses over the middle question, that is your answer. We teach these treatments where the evidence supports them, on the skin boosters and polynucleotides course, and we are upfront in class about where it does not.
The short version
Less toxin, more biology is a good instinct and a bad shopping list if you follow it uncritically. Learn the modality, read the regulatory position yourself, and let the evidence rather than the hype cycle decide what goes on your menu.