Describe your goals
Start with what concerns you personally. It can help to distinguish the changes you would like from the features you want to preserve. You do not need to know the medical name of an operation.
Reference images may help explain your wishes, but they are not a promise to reproduce someone else's result.
Discuss the options and limitations
Ask which options address your goals and why a particular approach is proposed. Ask about risks, limitations and possible alternatives.
- What changes are possible in my situation?
- How do the proposed options differ?
- What are the risks, and what might require additional treatment?
Clarify the practical details
After the medical discussion, it is important to understand the next step: whether further information is needed, where the appointment will take place and how a date is agreed.
- What is included in the cost?
- How is subsequent follow-up arranged?
- How can I contact the doctor or clinic between visits?
Give yourself time to decide
A consultation provides information to help you make a choice. Making an enquiry or booking an appointment does not mean that surgery has already been scheduled.