Over the past decade, the increasingly savvy consumer has created an incredible demand for a new business enterprise, one that offers the very best the cosmetic surgery field has to offer combined with the highly effective skin care treatments. The demand for such services has been so intense that medical spa businesses have begun cropping up all across the country at a phenomenal rate. "The Spa Dermatology issue of Dermatologic Clinics" focuses on topics such as incorporating a medical spa into a dermatology practice, selling products in the medical spa environment, medical-legal considerations in the medical spa environment, and marketing your medical spa.