Contact & consultation

Arranging an assessment

Outpatient appointments are booked through the hospital on the numbers below; international patients can ask for Michael Yu. Bring photographs of yourself from earlier years if you have them, because how a face has changed over time is part of the assessment, and bring a written note of what you would refuse as well as what you want.

What a good assessment includes

An assessment of what has actually changed: whether volume has been lost, whether the tissue has descended, whether the skin has loosened, and whether any of those has a medical cause. For fat transfer, an assessment of how much fat is available at a donor site and where it would be taken from. For filler, a plan for what is being treated now and when it would be reviewed. And a discussion of what you would do if the result were not what you expected.

Asking about the plan

Ask what each part of the plan is treating, and why that material was chosen for it. Ask what could be done if you did not like the result, and whether the answer is an injection, an operation or nothing. Ask how many treatments the plan involves and over what period. A clinician who answers the question about undoing the result specifically is assessing you rather than presenting to you.

Before you commit

No decision needs to be made at the first appointment. Take the plan away, read it against the guides on this site, and come back with questions. With either option a staged plan is a reasonable plan, and a first treatment that is deliberately smaller than the final intention is a sign that the plan is being built around your face rather than around a target.