Growth of the Medical Spa Industry

More medical spas can mean more places to work, and also more places where oversight and training are stretched. This page looks at a published count of medical spas and at what it leaves open for a New Jersey clinician.

Choosing a workplace in a growing field

The common advice is to choose a reputable practice. A growing industry makes that harder to apply. A clinician choosing among workplaces near Madison faces a larger and changing set, and a standard checklist does not say which ones are well run.

A national count with no state breakdown

PubMed Central carries an article stating that "The aesthetic industry continues to experience steady growth with the total number of medical spas increasing from 8,899 in 2022 to 10,488 in 2023."

The sentence gives a count for two years. It does not say how many are in New Jersey, how many are well supervised, or how the growth affects any one clinician. Those answers sit elsewhere. The New Jersey Department of Health homepage and its health facilities pages are the state's own pages for readers who want to look further. The American Society of Plastic Surgeons posts its plastic surgery statistics for readers who want a different set of figures.

Growth as a reason to ask more questions

The passage supports saying that the number of medical spas rose between 2022 and 2023. It does not support claims about quality, safety or regulation. Treat the growth as a reason to ask more questions of any workplace, not as an answer about any one of them.