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“We chose to live here because there’s still a sense of barrio,” says Borja Marco Moreno. “When we registered our new address at the municipal office, the clerk congratulated us. There’s a citywide admiration for this place.” Moreno and his

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Clinical judgement shapes the quality of aesthetic care, from understanding a patient’s concern to deciding whether treatment is appropriate. Estimates from the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery indicate that plastic surgeons performed nearly 178,000 non-surgical aesthetic procedures across six