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 your face or body from one and three years ago if you have them, because they show how the change has developed and are far more useful than any description. Bring the list of everything you have already tried, including anything bought online, and say honestly how much weight you have lost or regained in the last few years.

What a good assessment includes

A judgement about which of the three problems you have — laxity, volume loss or skin quality — and in what proportion; an examination of skin thickness by area; a view on how much of the change is descent rather than surface; and a clear statement of what each proposed step would and would not change. You should leave able to say whether an operation is on the table, what the non-surgical option realistically gives, and how long each would last.

Asking about the plan

Ask which problem the plan is treating, and why that step rather than the one below it. Ask how much change is realistic rather than the best case, how many sessions or how many weeks of recovery, and what maintenance the result needs. Ask what would make this the wrong treatment for your skin. A clinician who answers that last question specifically is assessing you rather than presenting to you.

Before you commit

No decision needs to be made at the first appointment, and no course of sessions should be sold before an assessment is complete. Take the plan away, read it against the guides on this site, and come back with questions. A discount that expires, or pressure to start treatment today, is information about the clinic rather than about your skin.