Croma Anatomy Workshop

Croma hosted a two-day anatomy workshop for delegates in the city of Vienna, Austria on 16th and 17th May. The course was taught by two esteemed practitioners, Dr Konstantin Frank & Dr Rita Poddar, and was attended by international delegates including the UK, Ireland, Netherlands and Nordics.

After welcoming delegates at Croma Headquarters, day one consisted of theoretical sessions with Dr Konstantin Frank covering ‘Ageing of the face and how we counteract it’ and Dr Rita Poddar discussing ‘Countourel® Polydioxanone (PDO) Threads in Facial Rejuvenation: Composition, Clinical Applications, Anatomical Considerations, and Selection Criteria’. The evening ended with a dinner.

This was followed on day two with a guided tour through the Croma state-of-the-art manufacturing site and a laboratory site.

After the tour concluded, delegates were split into small groups to work on cadavers under the supervision of Dr Rita Poddar and Dr Konstantin Frank.

The course provided a refreshed and improved understanding of facial anatomy, enabling practitioners to offer consistent treatment results with complication management and avoidance techniques.

The event concluded with a delegate and speaker dinner hosted by Croma's head office.

“The hospitality from the Croma team was above and beyond from start to finish. The two-day agenda was packed with beneficial learning, making it worthwhile to take time out of the clinic. The guided tour of Croma’s manufacturing site highlighted the impressive scale of their operations and the strict professional processes the Croma saypha® HA fillers undergo before we receive them. The training delivered by both Dr Konstantin and Dr Rita Poddar was exceptional. They made everyone feel very welcome and no question was a silly question. Thank you Croma for your great hospitality. This experience has definitely added value to my clinical practice, and I highly recommend it.”

- Jacqueline Naeini, Clinical Director & Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Cliniva medispa

“It was truly inspiring to witness the innovative work that Croma is doing in the field of aesthetics medicine. The theoretical sessions given by Dr Rita Poddar and Dr Konatantin Frank were incredibly informative and very engaging. I have attended hands on cadaver workshops before, however this was by far the best. I can only put this down to the extensive knowledge of the trainers and the way Croma had orchestrated these sessions. The attention to detail for the whole two-day workshop was outstanding from the theoretical lectures, transportation, restaurants and the hotel. I look forward to working with more Croma products in the future.”

- Teena Williams, Registered Nurse, TW Aesthetics

About the presenters:

Dr Rita Poddar Dip MJDF, MFDS RCS(Eng)

Dr Rita Poddar is a cosmetic dental surgeon and clinical dental director of the multi-award-winning Peppermint Group. In her capacity as Aesthetics Director, she has a special interest in non-surgical facelifts and anti-ageing.

A multi-award winner for business and clinical excellence, Dr Poddar has won awards for Entrepreneur Of The Year and winner of Women In Business in Scotland. She is the clinical director of three clinics in Scotland with a thriving facial aesthetics practice. She has been a dental surgeon for 23 years with facial aesthetics special interest for over 20 years and has done over 27,000 facial aesthetic treatments on patients to date including, botulinum toxin, dermal fillers, suture suspension facial threadlifting, prescription skincare treatments, peels, radio frequency, microneedling, use of ultrasound for facial aesthetics, and other advanced facial aesthetic techniques. Dr Poddar is also the PDO face and neck thread lifting trainer for Croma Pharma in the UK and Ireland

Dr Konstantin Frank M.D

Dr Konstantin Frank has been a Plastic Surgery Resident at Ocean Clinic Marbella since 2023. Dr Frank studied at Paracelsus Medizinische Privatuniversität (PMU), Salzburg, and Harvard Medical School, Boston to obtain his medical degree

in 2018. He then started his position as a resident at the prestigious Department of Hand, Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery at the Ludwig – Maximilian University Munich, under the guidance of Prof. Giunta until December 2022.

Dr Frank has published more than 150 peer-reviewed articles in prestigious journals and was awarded the prestigious “Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Best Paper Award” in 2019. He is the youngest first–author in the highest-ranked plastic surgery journal “Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery” and one of the most cited authors in aesthetic surgery in the last 5 years. Dr Frank continues to share his anatomical knowledge as a speaker at leading international and national scientific meetings around the globe.