Consultation Process
What a long-term consultation should cover
If you are thinking about a facial procedure, a consultation is where the long-term questions get answered for your own face. Sun care, skin health, timing and the choices that may delay surgery are the subjects a long-term consultation should reach, so arrive with them as a short list in hand.
Good questions to bring include which options come before surgery, how strong the evidence is for each one, and what the surgeon would do differently if you waited a few years. A plastic surgery society answers many common rhinoplasty questions, which shows how a good question list is built. If you are comparing offices in different cities, a city government's neighborhood profiles can help you think about travel and location.
Your question list stays with you
Keep the list somewhere you can reach on the day of the consultation. To keep preparing, read the facelift, chin augmentation and eyelid surgery questions next.
Preparing for a consultation this way is reading, not medical advice, and the surgeon you see is the one to advise you.
Draft your questions
Write your question list for your consultation.