A consultation is not a formality on the way to the treatment chair. It's the part of the visit where a provider decides whether treatment makes sense for you at all -- and a good one takes that seriously.
A real consultation starts with questions about your health history, medications, and what you're hoping to get out of the visit -- not with a menu of areas and prices. If a provider skips this and moves straight to talking you into a treatment, that's worth noticing.
A provider should actually look at the area you're asking about -- how your face moves, what your skin is doing, what you're describing -- before recommending anything. A plan made before the exam isn't really a plan, it's a script.
Sometimes the honest answer at a consultation is that a treatment isn't a good fit right now, or ever, for a particular person. A provider willing to say that is doing their job. One who never says it to anyone is worth a second look.
A provider should be able to explain what the visit itself involves -- how long it takes, what to expect immediately after, what follow-up looks like -- without making promises about how you'll look or feel afterward. Explaining a process is different from promising an outcome.
A consultation that ends with 'we should do this today while you're here' is not automatically wrong, but it removes the space to think, ask a follow-up question, or check with someone else. You're allowed to take the information home and decide later.
Write your questions down before you go -- about the provider's background, what happens if something feels off afterward, what the visit costs. It's easy to forget half of them once you're in the chair.
This guide, and this website generally, exists to help you ask better questions -- not to tell you what to expect from a treatment. That answer only comes from a provider who has actually examined you.
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