Fifty Plus Face

Past fifty, most people around Byram have signed enough paperwork to know that the large print and the small print do not always agree. A treatment consultation works the same way. What is said across the desk is one thing. What is printed in the terms you are handed is another, and only the second goes home with you.

Take a non-surgical lift. The pitch may set what it does next to what a surgical lift does. Ask where that comparison is written, and read the sentence in the document rather than the one you remember.

Rosacea care can be sold with a promise of calm skin. Read a plain account of what rosacea is and how it appears and a clinical page on rosacea symptoms, causes and management, then set the plan's wording beside theirs.

Credentials deserve the same literal reading. A title such as board certification names something specific, so ask which board and ask to see it on paper. The same goes for the risks of a cosmetic procedure: the version that counts is the written one.

Any clinic you consult can be asked to put its answers on paper, See Beyond Beauty in Greenwich included.

So carry one question into the room: of everything you were told today, which part is printed on the page in front of you?