Going high tech
The clinic is now all set to offer the latest in laser technology to help patients achieve a beautiful skin colour and tone. It’s all part of the doctor’s plan to help Bahrain become a centre for health tourism in the region.

“People in the Gulf region should not have to fly for more than an hour or so to obtain first-class medical treatment; it should be available in an environment that makes them feel really at home,” she says. “Why spend time and money to get a high standard of medical treatment and care in the field of aesthetic medicine and dermatology, when you can get it here in the Kingdom?” Her first step is adding the Quanta System to the range of services offered at her clinic. “Quanta System’s new multifunctional platforms, offer a clinic-in-a-system solution for all dermatology, aesthetic and plastic surgery needs,” she says.

It allows various wavelengths to be selected, which are the highest fluencies available in the market, with a built in cooling system, several temporal functioning regimes and a wide range of accessories to allow flexibility in skin treatments. These range from hair removal, skin rejuvenation and vascular skin problems.

In fact, laser hair removal is one of the most demanded aesthetic applications. Its success is based on extremely quick performance, lack of patient discomfort and improved results, as compared to traditional techniques.

In this system, all a patient needs for 90 per cent reduction in hair growth are six to 15 sessions — a vast improvement on traditional methods. Also, it does away with problems caused by the older techniques, such as dryness and irritation leading to early skin ageing and aggravation of chronic skin conditions, such as eczema or psoriasis.

It’s this determination to be a pioneer in her field that has served Dr Marafie well in her first five years in operation, and one that will continue to do so into the future.