A facial aesthetics consultation in Rotherham, with a registered dentist
- Talk about the lines that bother you and what could change
- Take your medical history and examine you in person
- Cover the risks, the alternatives and the aftercare
- Send you away to decide, because nothing is given on the day
Treatment is never given at a first appointment, and nothing is prescribed without assessing you in person.
Not sure which appointment you need?
This is a guide to the right first appointment, not a diagnosis. Your dentist will talk through what is right for you once they have had a look.
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Start with the consultation
A conversation with a registered dentist about what could change and what could not, with the risks and the alternatives covered properly.
Why this page tells you so little
The treatment usually discussed at this appointment involves a prescription-only medicine. In the UK it is against the law to advertise prescription-only medicines to the public, so we cannot name the product, price it, promote it or tell you what it will do for you on a web page.
What we can do is offer an assessment. A prescriber has to see you in person, take a medical history and decide whether anything is appropriate for you at all. That decision cannot be made in advance, and any clinic that appears to have made it before meeting you is telling you something about how it operates.
At the appointment you can ask anything: what is involved, what the risks are, what the alternatives are, what it would cost, and what happens if you are unhappy afterwards. You will get answers in person, which is where they belong.
Questions worth asking anywhere
Not just here. These are the questions that separate a clinical service from a beauty service, and you are entitled to clear answers to all of them.
Who is prescribing, and who is injecting
Both should be named, both should be registered with a healthcare regulator, and you should be able to check them on a public register.
What happens if something goes wrong
Ask who you contact, how quickly, and whether they can manage a complication themselves. A service with no answer to this is not one to use.
Am I being given time to think
Same-day treatment, discounts for booking now and package deals are all signs of a service selling rather than assessing.
Book a consultation
Every treatment starts with a conversation about what could change and what could not. Send an enquiry and reception will arrange it.
Questions people ask
The two kinds of line, who may prescribe, and what can go wrong.
What is the difference between a line that appears when I move and one that is there when I do not?
It is where the assessment starts. Dynamic lines appear with an expression: your brain signals a muscle, the muscle contracts, and the skin above it creases. Forehead lines, frown lines and the lines at the outer corner of the eye are the usual examples.
Static lines are there when your face is at rest. When you are young the skin springs back after an expression. The more years and the more repetitions, the less completely it springs back, and eventually the crease stays. Smoking and sun damage both make that worse.
They are not the same problem and they do not have the same answer, which is a large part of why none of this can be settled on a web page. Somebody has to look at your face both at rest and moving.
Who is allowed to prescribe this, and can it be done remotely?
A prescription-only medicine has to be prescribed for you by name, by somebody qualified to prescribe it, and that person has to have assessed you. In practice that means a doctor, a dentist, or an independent prescriber such as some nurses and pharmacists.
It cannot properly be done remotely. The professional regulators' shared position is that a prescriber who has not examined you in person is not in a position to prescribe an injectable cosmetic medicine, so a phone call, a video call or an online form is not enough. A service where somebody who has never met you signs the prescription and somebody else administers it is a service to walk away from.
What can go wrong?
Tenderness and mild pain around the injection points is the common one, and it should settle within a couple of days.
Less often the effect reaches a muscle it was not intended for, and the eyebrow or the eyelid drops on one side. That is not permanent, but it can take a few weeks to pass.
You should be told the full list for the specific areas being discussed and for your own medical history, before you agree to anything. If you are not told, that is your answer about whether to go ahead.