Botox isn't a skincare routine.
Understanding when treatment actually makes sense — and the years where the honest answer is sunscreen.
The question behind the question
Patients in their late twenties often arrive asking about preventative treatment. The premise is that starting early stops lines forming. The evidence for this is thinner than the marketing, and the trade-off is real: a decade of treatment has a cost, and beginning before there is anything to treat buys very little.
What actually predicts how a face ages
Sun exposure, smoking, sleep, and genetics — roughly in that order, and by a wide margin over anything performed in a clinic. A patient who is not using daily sun protection and is asking about preventative neuromodulators is optimising the wrong variable.
When it does make sense
When a line is visible at rest and it bothers you. That is the whole test. It is not a number of years old, and it is not what anyone else in your circle is doing.
What we say in the room
Frequently, come back in two years. That conversation costs us the booking and it is the reason those patients return.
If you want to talk this through
Consultations run forty-five minutes and carry no obligation to book treatment. Bring the question you actually have, not the one you think you should ask.
