The questions that matter, answered like it's your face

One of three people, always: Dr. Amara Sethi (physician), Priya Raman (RN), or Jonas Feld (NP). Nurse injectors work under Dr. Sethi's medical directives with the physician available in the building, and advanced or corrective filler is physician-only. You'll know who's treating you when you book, and you can request a specific provider.

Yes. Every neuromodulator and filler we inject is authorized by Health Canada, purchased through licensed Canadian distributors, and logged by lot number in your chart. If you ever want to see the box, ask — our injectors consider that a good sign, not an insult.

Common and temporary: bruising, swelling, tenderness, small lumps that settle. Rare and serious: vascular occlusion — filler entering or compressing a blood vessel — which can damage skin and, extraordinarily rarely, vision. We take it seriously: our injectors train and drill on occlusion protocol, we stock hyaluronidase (the dissolver) on site, and Dr. Sethi is on call for complications. Any clinic offering filler should be able to give you this same answer.

Hyaluronic-acid fillers — the only kind we place — can be dissolved with hyaluronidase, usually over one or two visits. Dissolving is itself a medical procedure with its own consent process, and it's also the reason we won't inject permanent or non-reversible fillers.

Neuromodulators (Botox is one brand) relax the muscles that fold skin — they treat lines made by movement and last 3–4 months. Fillers add volume and structure where it's been lost — cheeks, folds, lips — and last 9–18 months. Different tools for different problems; plenty of good plans use neither.

No. We defer all injectables, laser treatments, and body contouring during pregnancy and breastfeeding — not because harm is proven, but because safety isn't established and elective treatments don't justify the uncertainty. Skin-health visits can often be adapted with pregnancy-safe products, and we're happy to plan ahead for afterwards.

First, the two-week review that's already booked: neuromodulators peak and filler settles by then, and many day-three worries resolve on their own. If the result genuinely misses the written plan, we adjust — a conservative top-up, or dissolving for HA filler. What we won't do is stack more product on a result you dislike just to end the conversation.

Ranges are published on every treatment page — neuromodulators $10–13 per unit, filler $750–900 per syringe, laser sessions $95–1,250 depending on the treatment. Your exact quote depends on dose and plan, so it's confirmed in writing at consultation. The $75 consultation fee is credited to your first treatment.

Yes — 19 for any injectable or device treatment, in line with BC's age of majority, no exceptions and government ID checked. We also decline treatments we believe aren't in a patient's interest at any age; expect a conversation, not a menu.

Neuromodulators: book 3–4 weeks out so the result is settled and reviewable. Filler: at least 2 weeks, ideally 4, to be safely past bruising and swelling. Peels and resurfacing: leave the full downtime window plus a buffer week. Booking treatment days before a wedding is how bad stories start — we'll help you count backwards from the date.

Many do, with the right device, settings, and an experienced operator — our laser lead maintains specific protocols for Fitzpatrick IV–VI skin, and we test-patch first as standard. Some treatments (like IPL) are genuinely unsuitable for deeper skin tones and we'll say so plainly rather than risk burns or pigment change. The assessment is where this gets decided honestly.

Because candidacy is medical, not cosmetic. The consultation screens your history and medications for contraindications, examines the anatomy you actually have, and sometimes concludes that the treatment you came in for isn't the right one — or that no treatment is. That conversation is the product; the $75 fee is credited to treatment if you proceed.