Aesthetic Medicine Case Study

How Dr. Gerstman made physician-led aesthetic expertise discoverable in AI search

A boutique NYC cosmetic and laser medicine practice made its consultation philosophy, treatment expertise, and natural-results positioning easier for AI assistants to understand.

3.6xAI-Referred Consults
81%Treatment Match Accuracy
14Service Pages Structured
2004Practice Authority Since
Patients were finding generic aesthetic answers, not the nuance of a physician-led consultation. Appear helped AI understand that our work is about facial harmony, safety, education, and natural-looking results.
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Dr. GerstmanCosmetic and laser medicine, New York City

The Challenge

Dr. Gerstman's site communicated a specific aesthetic philosophy: thoughtful facial analysis, natural-looking outcomes, patient education, and physician-led care. Human visitors could understand this through treatment pages and testimonials.

AI systems struggled to preserve that nuance. Queries about Botox, fillers, laser treatments, facials, and brows often collapsed the practice into generic med-spa language rather than recognizing the medical, consultation-led positioning.

The team needed AI-readable structure that connected treatment categories, physician credentials, trust signals, and patient-intent outcomes across core service pages.

Before Appear

  • AI answers grouped the practice with generic med spas.
  • Physician-led treatment nuance was hard to parse.
  • Consultation philosophy was buried in long-form pages.
  • Trust signals were not structured as machine-readable evidence.
  • Treatment-specific prompts often routed users to competitors or directories.

After Implementation

  • AI answers recognized physician-led aesthetic medicine as the differentiator.
  • 14 treatment and consultation pages were structured for AI crawlers.
  • Natural-results philosophy and safety positioning became citation-ready themes.
  • MedicalBusiness, Physician, FAQ, and service schema connected key entities.
  • AI-referred consultation interest increased 3.6x across measured prompts.

Platform Performance

Citation rate growth across major LLMs after implementation.

ChatGPT+67%
Baseline: 7%Current: 74%
Perplexity+72%
Baseline: 9%Current: 81%
Claude+55%
Baseline: 9%Current: 64%

Implementation Timeline

Week 1

Treatment and Entity Mapping

Mapped physician profile, treatment categories, consultation philosophy, and proof themes into one structured model.

Weeks 2-4

Service Page Structuring

Normalized Botox, fillers, laser treatments, facials, and brow pages into answer-ready summaries tied to patient intent.

Weeks 5-8

AI Answer Monitoring

Tracked prompts across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude, then refined pages where physician-led differentiation was still weak.

Weeks 9-12

Consultation ROI Review

Compared AI-referred consultation growth with paid acquisition costs and expanded the highest-intent treatment pages.

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