Contact & consultation

Arranging an assessment

Outpatient appointments are booked through the hospital on (+86) 023-8191 3691; administration, including questions about records and billing, is on (+86) 023-8191 3592; international patients can ask for Michael Yu. If you have photographs of yourself from five and ten years ago, bring them, because they show where your tissue used to sit and how much fullness was there, which is more useful than any description you can give in words.

What a good assessment includes

An examination of the face at rest, in movement and in profile; an assessment of skin thickness, elasticity and quality; and a judgement about how much of the change is descent and how much is volume loss. If a suture route is being considered, the assessment should say plainly where the sutures would sit and what they can realistically hold there. You should leave able to say which change dominates and what each route would leave exactly as it is.

Asking about the plan

If an operation is proposed, ask at what depth the tissue would be separated and why, where the incisions would sit, what the scars are expected to look like, and whether anything is being added such as fat grafting. If sutures are proposed, ask how many, where, what the plan is when the support fades, and what would be done if a suture needs to come out. Ask what would make either route the wrong one for you; 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 route needs to be chosen before the examination has named which change dominates. Take the plan away, read it against the guides on this site, and come back with questions. A discount that expires, a package sold before an assessment is complete, or a promise about how long a result lasts is information about the clinic rather than about your face.