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Know which procedure fits before you book

Before you book a consultation, it helps to know which procedure fits your concern. That is the question we set out to answer.

Concerns, candidacy and surgeon questions

We match concerns to procedures, explain candidacy signs, and list questions worth asking a surgeon. The site of a facial plastic surgery society is an example of the broad subject area these procedures belong to.

Three kinds of source, checked against each other

We cross-check specialty society guides, peer-reviewed outcome studies, and surgeon training standards against each other. When two sources disagree, we say so and turn the difference into a question you can ask a surgeon.

Cause and effect before jargon

We favor cause and effect over jargon. We say what a term means before we use it, and we separate what a source states from what you should confirm with a surgeon. We would rather leave a question open than answer it with a claim we cannot back.

Mercer Island and the Eastside beyond it

A newspaper feature on great places nearby gives a wider sense of the Eastside around Mercer Island.

Cross-checking price pages against the other sources

We read price pages the way we read the rest of our sources. A plastic surgery society publishes a page on brow lift cost that shows how it presents price information for one procedure, and we set that beside what specialty guides and outcome studies say about the same procedure. A price page answers one question, so we treat it as one source of the three and not the final word.