Contact & consultation

Arranging an assessment

Outpatient appointments are booked through the hospital on (+86) 023-8191 3691, and administration can be reached on (+86) 023-8191 3592. International patients can ask for Michael Yu. Bring photographs of yourself from five and ten years ago if you have them, because they show how much fullness was there before, which is more useful than any description you can give. Bring a written list of what bothers you and anything you would refuse, and say whether you are considering only injections or an operation as well.

What a good assessment includes

An examination of the face at rest and in movement, an assessment of skin thickness and elasticity, and a judgement about how much of the change is volume loss, how much is a diffuse loss of support, and how much is descent. You should leave able to say which of those dominates, what each substance class would change, what each would leave exactly as it is, and what the plan would be if you declined both.

What to ask about the plan

Ask which substance class is being proposed and why that one rather than the other. Ask whether the material can be dissolved if you are unhappy with it, and what dissolving would and would not achieve. Ask how many appointments the plan involves and how far apart. Ask how a nodule or a lump would be managed, and how the clinic recognises and treats a vascular complication. A specific answer is the sign of an assessment rather than a presentation.

Before you commit

No decision needs to be made at the first appointment, and neither class needs to be chosen before the examination has named what the change is. Take the plan away, read it against the guides on this site, and come back with questions. Remember that one of these two commitments can be partly undone and the other cannot, and that this is worth thinking about before the appointment rather than during it.