PERSPECTIVE article
Front. Digit. Health
Sec. Personalized Medicine
Volume 7 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fdgth.2025.1595484
This article is part of the Research TopicDigital Health Past, Present, and FutureView all 27 articles
Bridging Clinic to Home: Domestic Devices in Dermatological Diagnostics and Treatments
Provisionally accepted
DIALA HAYKAL1*
Frederic Flament2- 1Centre Médical Laser Palaiseau, Palaiseau, France
- 2L’Oréal Research and Innovation, Clichy, France, Clichy, France
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The integration of diagnostic and therapeutic tools into home-used devices has significantly transformed dermatology, making advanced skincare technologies more accessible to the public. Home-based diagnostic devices empower individuals to monitor, assess, and track skin conditions in real time, promoting earlier interventions and personalized skincare. Therapeutic devices, on the other hand, enable users to actively treat cosmetic and dermatological concerns, offering greater autonomy in managing skin health outside the clinical setting. These technologies, often inspired by clinical-grade equipment, promise enhanced patient engagement but also raise critical questions regarding safety, efficacy, and regulatory oversight. Importantly, the regulatory status of these devices, particularly for diagnostic tools, varies significantly across regions, affecting standards for quality, permitted energy outputs, and intended uses. This commentary separately explores the opportunities and challenges posed by home-used diagnostic and therapeutic devices, evaluates their roles in cosmetic dermatology, and highlights key insights from the literature to contextualize their growing influence on personalized skincare.
Keywords: Home-used devices, Dermatology, Diagnostics and therapy, Regulatory Challenges, IoT technologies
Received: 18 Mar 2025; Accepted: 04 Jun 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 HAYKAL and Flament. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: DIALA HAYKAL, Centre Médical Laser Palaiseau, Palaiseau, France
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