As I'm writing this, people continue to stream onto the Boeing 757 that promises to lift me out of San Antonio and return me home. Already, I've reconnected with like-minded souls from AAD 08 -- a few dermatologists and aetheticians whom I met at the meeting are also guests on my United Airlines flight back to Los Angeles. What did those folks take away from this winter's meeting?

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Around 3 p.m. on Sunday, February 3, there seemed to be fewers doctors and conventioneers clogging the aisles at the Gonzalez Convention Center. Elizabeth from the Kestrel Publishing booth at the show, said it best: The doctors have clogged the nearest downtown San Antonio bars, where they can watch the Super Bowl.

Too true. However, prior to that time, the AAD Day 2 festivities were a slam-dunk (if I can be allowed to mix my metaphors). I was careening from one booth to the next, looking for the "next great thing" in dermatology to jump out at me, grab me by the lapels, and scream, "I'm it!" I don't know that I found anything that blew me away today, but there is much to see at this meeting.

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Of the many trade shows and conferences I've attended over the last 20 years, the 2008 AAD meeting has been one of the most action-packed and interesting. I'm not a dermatologist or a plastic surgeon, and I don't have medical training, but I know an active, upbeat, and friendly exhibition hall when I see one. And that is how I see the haps at the Gonzalez Convention Center in downtown San Antonio. Of the many exhibits I visited on my first day at the AAD, a few companies and products stood out:

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