WITH PASSION, EFFORTLESS IN EVERY WAY
For Aivee and Z Teo, the ten years of Aivee Clinic have flown by in the blink of an eye. “The best thing is that ten years didn’t feel like ten years,” says Z. “It kind of just flew by. Every day when we wake up, we are still excited and passionate to see our patients.”
Aivee likens the experience to motherhood. “It grew right before our very eyes. And we built it together,” she says. “Like having your own kid. You see them grow right before your eyes. And you’re excited to see what is ahead of them, how they will grow.”
For both of them, getting into the practice of aesthetics and dermatology was a happy accident. Aivee was not planning to enter the field of medicine. But because her grandfather was a doctor and none of his children pursued it as a career, her father asked her to go to medical school. “Eventually, I thought I wanted to be an endocrinologist,” she says, “No one in the family was a dermatologist. But I had a change of heart and suddenly realized it was something I found interesting in the course of my residency.”
Likewise, it was the same for Z. “I was meant to do family medicine or occupational medicine. That was my father’s practice and I was supposed to take over that,” he says. “Ever since I was young, I was primed to do that. Dermatology was never really in my mind.”
The couple met at the National Skin Center. “We met and it was something we realized we both liked,” says Z. While they fell into the routine of training in aesthetics, the more time they spent together they realized they enjoyed each other’s company. “We found it suited our personality a little bit more. It had to do with beauty and aesthetics, and suited our persona. It takes a certain kind of personality to like it,” he says. “Different fields of medicine require different kinds of personalities. The field of medicine is very wide. And
