Botox for frown and forehead lines: what patients in Chiswick should know
What botulinum toxin does to the upper face, what it cannot change, and the checks worth making before booking in west London.
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Understanding smoker's lines: causes and treatment options
Vertical lip lines have several causes and smoking is only one of them. What actually works on the perioral area, and what makes it worse.
Read the guideMarionette lines: why they form and how to treat them
A structural problem that patients experience as a line. Why treating the crease itself rarely works, and what does.
Read the guideForehead lines: prevention and treatment options
The trickiest area in the upper face. What prevents forehead lines, what treats them, and why less product is often the better answer.
Read the guideWhy faces age: the anatomy behind the lines
Bone, fat, muscle and skin. Which layer is driving your concern determines whether a treatment can do anything about it.
Read the guideToxin, filler or neither: choosing the right treatment
Two treatments, two entirely different problems. A comparison of what each does, where they overlap, and when the answer is neither.
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Sixteen guides across four sections, all written from the patient's side of the desk.
Before You Book
Consultations, credentials, cost and the questions worth asking before any deposit changes hands.
Open sectionSafety and Recovery
Regulation, downtime, aftercare and the warning signs that mean you stop and ring the clinic.
Open sectionInside the Clinic
How UK aesthetic practices are built, staffed and run, and why that shapes what patients experience.
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The Journal
Patient-side reporting, once in a while
We email when UK regulation or professional guidance changes, and when a guide is revised in a way that would change what a reader does.
Occasional emails when regulation changes, guidance moves or a guide is updated. No treatment offers, because we do not carry any.