How do I find an expert injector?

Finding an expert injector is absolutely critical to getting the best outcome. How do you go about finding the best injector? 

Many people look for the most experienced injectors they can find. While reputation is useful and experience does tend to improve skill, how many times have you seen a bad driver that’s been at it for 15 years? 

Price is also a factor. The cost of injectables is relatively stable, and every injector pays about the same for their product. This means that when products are offered at a lower price, it means that there is less revenue to go toward the injectors’ time. This may be appropriate if it’s a relatively new injector who is building a client base, but if your injector has been in the business for a while and is offering a low price, it might mean they have trouble producing consistent results. 

Word of mouth is another useful clue that you may have found a good injector, especially if the referral is from someone you know and trust. If someone has good reviews, it usually means they were able to give their clients an outcome they were happy with. However, reviews and online presence can be manipulated, and a likeable injector may not necessarily be an expert injector. 

Experience, price, and reputation can be useful clues that your injector is good, but the best way to know whether your injector is truly an expert is by analyzing how they practice. The two most important things that set expert injectors apart is that they carefully plan each injection, and they thoughtfully review how the injection worked so they can make effective adjustments. 

If your injector carefully plans each injection, closely reviews the effect of the treatment, and makes small adjustments to perfect your treatments, you can be confident you have an expert injector.  

An expert injector, especially the first time they meet you, will draw on your face. Dots and lines help your injector identify exactly where to put an injection to have the desired effect, while avoiding locations that can cause bruising or other side effects. Injectors who do not make marks on clients’ faces may seem confident, but an expert injector will not risk a poor result.

Many expert injectors spend more time planning out their injections than they do actually injecting! This is how you know your injector approaches their work with artistry and truly cares about the effect they produce for you. 

Expert injectors also insist on a follow-up visit two weeks after your injections, especially for the first few times they do your treatments. Every face is different, and everyone responds a little differently to each product. The follow-up appointment is essential to understanding how your face responds to different injection locations and doses, and will help the injector know whether to do something a little differently next time.

The follow-up appointment also gives injectors an opportunity to correct things that may not have gone exactly as planned, such as an excessively arched eyebrow after Botox injections for forehead wrinkles, or asymmetry after placing some dermal filler. Before and after photos are also crucial to understanding how your face responds to different techniques.

Our injectors are thoroughly trained in how to provide consistent, artful wrinkle treatments and dermal fillers by carefully planning their injections, closely following your results, and making careful adjustments. Read more about Botox, fillers, and our approach!