Med Spa Selection: Credentials and Red Flags
The first thing to have in hand before you contact any med spa is a written list of questions. The American Board of Cosmetic Surgery publishes essential questions to ask at a cosmetic surgery consult, and it makes a sound base for your own. This page prints the first through fifth places in the Ponte Vedra Beach ranking.
Credentials to check before you shortlist
Questions come first and credentials second. ASPS sets out why board certification matters for plastic surgery, so look for it on each provider's own pages. Treat a provider that sidesteps your consult questions as a reason to keep looking, however good its rating. Take New Beauty Company, whose Google Maps listing shows a 5 rating across 332 reviews. That figure records what reviewers thought, and it does not confirm who performs a treatment or what credentials that person holds, so the checks above still apply.
Rating order and tie-breaks
The ranking sorts providers by Google rating, highest first, and each figure comes from the provider's Google Maps listing. Ties go to the larger review count.
First to fifth place
- New Beauty Company
- Elase Medical Spa - Ponte Vedra
- Radiant Skin & Laser
- Waves Aesthetics
- Shea Esthetics PV
The five listings, one by one
Reaching New Beauty Company means leaving Ponte Vedra Beach for St Johns, so count that trip when you build your shortlist.
Elase Medical Spa - Ponte Vedra is listed as a medical spa on Google Maps, and it carries a 5 rating across 242 reviews. Ask what it needs from you before a first treatment.
Radiant Skin & Laser appears on Google Maps as a medical spa with a 5 rating across 122 reviews. Compare its answers with the others on the same questions.
Google Maps files Waves Aesthetics as a day spa, and the listing shows a 5 rating across 76 reviews. Because of that category, confirm that it offers the treatment you want.
Shea Esthetics PV is listed as a skin care clinic on Google Maps, with a 5 rating across 13 reviews. Weigh the rating beside the review count.
Telling five top-rated listings apart
All five entries share the top rating, so the rating will not separate them. Put the same written questions to two or three, and let the quality of the answers decide. Bring your question list to the first appointment.