About
About The Aesthetic Shortlist
The site exists for a reader with a long list of clinics and not much time. It shortens that list in a way the reader can check, and it says plainly where its knowledge stops.
Its angle is one question most provider lists skip: who actually performs the treatment? In a city where the same injection is sold in medical offices, spas and pop-up events, that answer comes before price or décor.
How the rankings work
Every ranking on the site uses the same rule. Providers whose own website states that a physician performs every treatment form the first group. Providers whose own website describes physicians and non-physician clinicians both treating form the second.
Providers for which no such statement was found form the third. That is not a finding that the provider lacks physicians, only that this site's editors did not find the statement. Within each group, order is by Google review count.
The order reflects that stated rule only. It is not a judgement of clinical quality, safety or results, and a provider lower on a list may suit a given reader better.
What it covers, and what it leaves out
The site covers one Los Angeles field: four ranked lists (the full order, scar and texture work, facial treatments and wrinkle relaxers), seven provider reviews and two head-to-head comparisons. Each ranking table shows the first ten providers in the order.
It leaves out prices, results, safety claims and before-and-after photos. Those change quickly or depend on a clinical examination. The site's editors are not clinicians, hold no medical licence and have not visited, been treated at or interviewed any provider listed here.
Recognition
- Awards
- none claimed by this site
- Certifications
- none; nobody who writes for the site holds a medical licence or clinical qualification
- Ranking basis
- one stated rule, described in full here
- Sources
- provider websites and public Google listings, each cited where used
Money and corrections
A provider's place on a list follows the rule and nothing else. It moves only when the provider's own website wording or its Google review count changes. The site takes no bookings and sells no treatments.
No phone number, street address or email address is published here. Readers with a question about a summarized statement can follow the source linked from it and read the original wording for themselves. To report an error in a listing or suggest a provider for the field, use the corrections and submissions form.
How a page gets made
Each page starts from the same dossier, compiled from provider websites and public Google listings.
Every figure printed next to a provider carries its public source. When a detail could not be checked, the page says so rather than guessing. Claims are checked the way careful fact-checkers do: find the source, read the exact wording, note the date. Those habits are set out well by the Annenberg Center's FactCheck.org.
Rules on medical products and who may use them come from public agencies. Their official texts can be searched through the GPO's GovInfo library, and proposed changes open for public comment at Regulations.gov.
The site also avoids the adjectives that fill most provider lists. The working test for every page is whether a reader leaves it with better questions for a consultation: who will treat, with what and why.