Almost nobody walks into a first consultation asking for a named procedure. They arrive holding a photograph on their phone, usually taken seven or eight years earlier, and a question that runs roughly like this: what happened here, and how much of it can be undone? Quite a lot can be improved. What helps at

Travelling abroad for an operation used to carry a whiff of recklessness. It does not any more, or at least not universally, though the reputation was earned somewhere and it is worth understanding exactly where before you book anything. Athens has become a genuine option for people from Britain and North America who want facial

Nearly everyone asks the same thing at the end of a consultation, usually while reaching for their coat. How long until I look normal again? It is a fair question, and the answer is frustratingly layered. There is the point where you can face a delivery driver without explanation. Then a later moment when colleagues

Men tend to arrive at a consultation later than women do, and usually with a shorter list of complaints. Often it is one thing: a bump seen in a side-on photograph, or a breathing problem that has quietly worsened since a football injury fifteen years ago. Rarely both, though sometimes both. There is also a