Understanding results
A result needs context. Understand what photographs can tell you, what they cannot predict, and what to discuss in your consultation.
Your expectations belong in the conversation.
Ask what is realistic for your anatomy, what may remain unchanged, and how recovery affects what you see. One person’s result cannot predict your own.
Prepare for your visitHow we approach clinical photographs
Clinical photography should support informed understanding. It must never turn consented patient material into spectacle or make unlike images look comparable.
Consent has scope
Permission should identify what may be shown, where it may appear, and whether it may be withdrawn under the agreed terms.
Comparison must be fair
Camera, lens, distance, height, light, angle, expression, crop, and scale should match as closely as practical.
Timing belongs beside the image
Healing changes. The follow-up interval and relevant context should be clear.
Variation is real
One person's photograph cannot predict another person's result, recovery, scar, or experience.