MD Beauty Labs Matches Health & Beauty

In a world where many doctors specialize in narrow areas, Dr. Daniela Dadurian could be said to not just see the big picture, but to improve it. As medical director at MD Beauty Labs medical spa, in Palm Beach and West Palm Beach, she developed a practice focusing on health, wellness and appearance.

While some battle aging or disease, Dr. Dadurian developed a holistic practice, combining health, wellness and appearance, functional medicine with beauty, anti-aging and rejuvenation, offering preventative medicine as well as IV therapy, hormone replacement and wellness.

Her passion for aesthetics and background in internal medicine helped her create a unique approach in rejuvenating individuals from the inside out, doing cosmetic procedures, preventing disease, battling aging and fostering longevity.

“Rather than treating symptoms when someone has a disease, I want to keep people healthy and prevent them from developing disease,” she said. “I combine that with the outside factor of looking your best, healthy and rejuvenated.”

Through functional medicine and cosmetic procedures, she identifies genetic factors with bloodwork, detecting deficiencies in vitamins and early onset diseases.

She also does interventions with ozone therapy, IV therapy, supplements and hormone replacement and infrared bed therapy as well as a wide range of cosmetic procedures.

“We combat aging and keep people vibrant,” Dr. Dadurian said “The aesthetic part includes state-of-the art lasers, fillers and neurotoxins to rejuvenate patients from the outside. My approach is to rejuvenate patients from the inside out. It all goes together.”

The perfect population

Dr. Dadurian’s medical spa has been in West Palm Beach since 1997, its current location since 2008, and in Palm Beach since 2015.

“This is a population that has the means to stay healthy. They’re very interested and educated, in optimizing their health,” she said. “It’s the perfect population interested in functional medicine.”

The fee-for-service practice serves full-time residents and snowbirds, where she is their local doctor while they’re in town.

“Most of those people who live here part-time have doctors wherever they live over the summer,” she said. “They come here and see me while they’re here.”

Dual focus medicine

Dr. Dadurian’s dual focus has been with her for decades, if not from the start, providing patients care, comfort and cosmetic procedures.

“My forte was to combine both preventative medicine, the internal medicine part of wellbeing, with aesthetic medicine,” she said.

Her passion for aesthetics and background in internal medicine made her the perfect person to create a unique approach in rejuvenating individuals from the inside out.

Her background actually goes back before her training began: Her father was a skilled orthopedic surgeon and her mother was an architect.

“I believe that in order to be good in aesthetics, you have to have an aesthetic eye,” she said. “My mother was a talented architect. Ever since I can remember, she made me look at proportions and color coordination.”

In cosmetic procedures, she said understanding proportion is crucial. Her father, a surgeon known for dexterity, brought that aspect of skill to her upbringing.

“I think it’s the combination of the two of them that made me successful in what I’m doing,” Dr. Dadurian added.

Portrait of a physician

Born in Romania, to Greek and American parents, she and her parents moved to West Germany when she was five, although she went to high school in England, before moving to the United States.

Dr. Dadurian received her medical degree from the University of Miami School of Medicine, moving to West Palm Beach in 1997 and developing a large internal medicine practice.

When in 2001 Botox was FDA approved for cosmetic purposes, patients asked her to provide that service, and she expanded her practice.

After her father was diagnosed and in 2001 died of lung cancer, she said, that “catapulted” her into her current career.

“I felt there needed to be a better way to prevent disease before it comes to just treating symptoms,” she said. “That’s how I got into functional medicine and aesthetics.”

Her expertise in cosmetic dermatology, anti-aging techniques and devotion are reflected in the vigilant personal care she gives patients.

“We have the latest technologies, the latest lasers and products, the latest modalities to achieve the best results,” she said.  “Fillers and medications constantly evolve and improve. We keep up with the latest.”

Best practices

In addition to providing care in a luxurious, contemporary, loft environment, Dr. Dadurian, travels, researching care and bringing back knowledge.

During a recent trip to South Korea, the forefront of cosmetic products and procedures, she found a skincare product she liked.

“I’m developing my own skin care product, using ingredients I learned about in South Korea,” Dr. Dadurian said, noting she already has a line of MD Beauty Labs skincare products. “When you use skincare products, it’s important that they’re medical grade.”

Since they’re not regulated by the FDA, she said it’s important to look for medical grade skin care products also known as cosmeceuticals sold in physician offices.

“A lot of it is diet. A lot is genetics. It’s also the science of epigenetics, where through external factors you modify and improve your genetic predisposition with hormone replacement, IV therapy and other modalities,” she said of aspects of care. “We’re committed to offering a revitalizing experience.”

Cosmetics and care

Dr. Dadurian also practices a wide range of minimally invasive cosmetic procedures up to and including laser liposuction, using lasers for various purposes, doing skin tightening, body contouring, rejuvenating skin, skin texture, facials and Botox fillers.

About 60 percent of her patients are female and 40 percent are male, seeking services such as hormone replacement, IV therapy, Botox, fillers, lasers and hair enhancement therapies.

“It’s a growing population,” she said of male clients. “It’s more acceptable now for men to have cosmetic procedures.”

As people age, hormone therapy can be helpful, if people start feeling low on energy and libido. After checking patients’ hormones, patients receive individualized formulas. Women get estrogen and testosterone; men get testosterone.

“Replacement of hormones has huge medical benefits, including increased bone and muscle mass and decreased risk for dementia,” Dr. Dadurian said. “It can even be effective in treating insomnia.”

Some women feel a woman may be more sensitive to their needs and bring  an aesthetic vision more similar to their own.

Some men believe a female physician may be more receptive to their needs and have a lighter touch, although most seek her out for her skill.

“I’ve kept people healthy. The focus is not on treating disease,” she said. “The focus is to optimize people’s wellbeing and keep them healthy and refreshed looking as long as possible.”

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