Dr. Michelle Hury

So my name is Michelle Heery.

I'm a physician.

I do dermatology and dermatopathology, which is looking under the microscope for skin biopsies and whatnot.

And so I'm seeing patients, medical patients, cosmetic patients, and occasionally surgery.

And I have my own office.

So I started my practice at the end of 2015 and really got into the swing of things in 2016.

And I really didn't start seeing that uptick of younger cosmetic patients until the pandemic.

Everyone was basically chronically online.

They were on Zoom.

They were looking at themselves.

And there was the rise of TikTok and the filters.

And people were really, you know, seeing these flaws, these perceived flaws that either aren't there or are so minimal and just normal anatomy.

And they have changed.

really made it front and center where it affects them, it affects their daily life.

And I really feel that it has become more of a pathological thing.

I did have this patient very recently who was on the younger side.

She was mid-20s and really, you know, beautiful girl.

I don't see a lot of signs of aging on her face, but she was coming in for neurotoxin, Botox, Dysport, that sort of thing.

You know, I really had to kind of search for movement on her face already.

So there wasn't a lot for me to treat.