The short answer
If you are travelling for a treatment, plan around the assessment, not around a booking slot. You are not expected to be treated on your consultation day. You do not have to decide at the first visit either. You can take a written plan home and return with questions.
This matters more for visitors than for anyone else. A review may fall after you fly, and urgent problems at home will need local care. Results vary, and the advice may turn out to be to wait or to do nothing. It is better to know that before you commit to a trip built around treatment.
Aesthetic treatment in Singapore for overseas patients, step by step
What online contact can and cannot do
| Online contact can | Online contact cannot |
|---|---|
| Clarify your concern | Examine you |
| Collect your history | Diagnose the cause of a problem |
| Help you time a visit | Give a treatment plan or a quote |
| Answer aftercare questions | Perform treatment |
What to bring
Bring a list of your medicines and supplements. Bring records of past aesthetic treatments too, with product names, areas and dates. If you have no records, the assessment still goes ahead, including for treatment done abroad. Consultations are in English, and enquiries can be answered in English or Chinese. Please mention any language needs when you enquire.
Questions to settle before you book a flight
Timing your visit
Tell us your travel dates first, so that the plan can fit around them. Some treatments need a review once the product has settled, and longer programmes have review intervals set by the doctor. If a required review would fall after you leave, the plan may be staged differently, or it may be deferred. The doctor decides what suits your stay after examining you. We do not publish a list of treatments for short trips, because suitability depends on that examination. If your stay is short, the assessment may be the most useful part of the trip. You can leave with a written plan, think it over at home, and come back later if it still makes sense.
If you are travelling for filler correction or Time Freeze
These plans need an in-person examination, and filler work needs an ultrasound map, so they cannot be set from messages. Bring what you have on earlier treatment: the product name, the date and the areas. If you have no records, the assessment still goes ahead. Filler correction is often staged, so allow time for a review. See filler correction and Time Freeze Laser LCLR®.
Flying and travel after treatment
Please mention any travel planned close to a treatment date before you agree to anything. After filler, strenuous exercise, saunas, alcohol and facial treatments that apply heat or pressure are put off for a short period. Laser care includes sun protection, so think about where you are going next. The doctor will give advice for your own plan. A beach holiday straight after laser, for example, is worth raising before you book.
Care after you return home
You receive notes covering what to expect, what to avoid and which signs to report.
Routine questions can go through the same clinic line, during clinic hours.
Keep it with you. Any doctor at home will want the product name, area and date.
Consider who at home would see you if you needed review.
If something urgent happens abroad
Urgent signs need local care, not a message. These include skin that turns white, dusky or mottled, severe or worsening pain, and any change in vision. Use your local emergency number, because 995 applies only in Singapore. Show your treatment summary to the doctor who sees you, since hyaluronidase works only on hyaluronic acid filler. Our complication care page sets out the warning signs in more detail. Please read it before you fly.
Who should wait or reconsider
Some concerns need more than a short stay. Pigment, lifting, filler problems and scars all need in-person assessment, and the advice may be to wait or to do nothing. If you are pregnant or breastfeeding, or have an active infection at the site, elective treatment usually waits. Treatment may also be a poor fit if a required review cannot be arranged. Our second opinion page may suit you if you were treated elsewhere. Please tell us early if you have had any treatment recently, as settling time can change what is sensible.
Fees, risks and limits
Fees are quoted in writing after assessment, and nothing is quoted beforehand. They are itemised by treatment, area and consumable, and they depend on the findings, the product or device, any combination and the staging. See how we quote. Every treatment carries risks, and swelling or bruising may be visible while you travel. A trip cannot remove those risks, and no result can be promised. The consultation process is the same for you as for a local patient.