Write to hello@aestheticlaunchlab.com with the area that concerns you and what you have had done before. This website is operated by Aesthetic Launch Lab and enquiries are handled by them. You will get a considered reply setting out which treatments apply and what an assessment would need to establish.
A full medical history, an examination of the face at rest and in movement, standardised photographs, a discussion of what is realistically achievable, and a written plan with its limits stated. Where a prescription-only medicine is involved, the prescriber must assess you in person.
Advertising a prescription-only medicine to the public is prohibited under the Human Medicines Regulations 2012, which covers botulinum toxin. More broadly, a price detached from who assesses you and what happens if something goes wrong is not useful information. A written quotation follows the assessment.
Because cosmetic photography can be made dramatically more flattering without editing anything, simply by changing lighting, angle, distance and expression, which makes a gallery a poor basis for a decision. The standards a practice commits to in writing are worth more.
Only if it provides a regulated activity. Most purely cosmetic injectable treatment does not fall within one, so many competent clinics are not registered. Check which category applies.
A premises licence required by most London boroughs for premises offering certain treatments. It addresses the premises and equipment rather than clinical judgement.
A doctor, dentist, independent nurse prescriber or pharmacist independent prescriber, following a face-to-face assessment. Remote prescribing for cosmetic injection is not considered acceptable by the professional regulators.
At present, in law, largely yes. Fillers are regulated as medical devices rather than medicines and there is no general licensing requirement to inject them, which is why checking the individual matters so much.
The enzyme used to dissolve hyaluronic acid filler, including as an emergency treatment when a blood vessel is compromised. It is a prescription-only medicine, so a practitioner without prescribing rights cannot lawfully hold it.
Since October 2021 it has been a criminal offence in England to administer botulinum toxin or cosmetic filler for cosmetic purposes to anyone under eighteen.
Contact the practitioner who treated you immediately. If you cannot reach them and the problem is urgent, contact NHS 111 or attend an emergency department. Any change in vision after facial filler is an emergency.
No. There is no advertising, no directory, no sponsorship and no referral arrangement with any treatment provider.
Every treatment page carries its own questions covering that procedure specifically. Start with the treatments, or read what happens at a consultation.
Write with the area that concerns you and what you have had done before. You will get a considered reply setting out which treatments apply, which do not, and what an assessment would need to establish before anything is proposed.
hello@aestheticlaunchlab.comPlease do not send clinical photographs or medical records by email. If something has gone wrong after a procedure, contact the practitioner who treated you, or NHS 111, rather than waiting for a reply here.