Before Your Treatment: What to Tell Your Doctor

Before any treatment at DayBeau Gangnam, there is a stretch of conversation that has little to do with the treatment itself. It is about you: your health, what you take, what you have had done before, and when you fly home.

None of it is a formality. Some answers change whether a treatment can go ahead at all; others change the product, the order, or the timing. This piece sets out what is worth saying, and why.

Because a cosmetic treatment is still a medical one. The same treatment that suits one person may need to be adjusted, postponed, or replaced for another, and much of what decides that cannot be seen on the skin.

Medications you take and your health history can change the direction, so it helps to mention them freely. Your doctor decides whether the treatment can go ahead — and that decision rests on what the doctor knows.

Before your treatment, tell us if you are pregnant or breastfeeding, or if you have a wound, an infection, or severe acne in the treatment area.

Tell us, too, if you have a history of severe allergies, if you have a neuromuscular disease, or if you have taken isotretinoin (an oral acne medication) within the past 6 months.

And tell us if you have a pacemaker or another implanted electronic device. These items appear on our treatment pages under the same heading — before your treatment, tell us if — because each of them can change what is appropriate for you.

If you are unsure whether something counts, mention it anyway. It takes a moment to set aside something that turns out not to matter; it is much harder to account for something that was never said.

We do not ask you to stop your usual medication for a cosmetic treatment. What we do ask is that you tell us everything you take at your consultation.

This matters most with blood thinners. Medicines such as aspirin or warfarin can make bruising or bleeding more likely, and the note appears on our pages for injectable treatments such as filler, Botox, and thread lifting.

For the PEVS-Cell Program, our Autologous Blood-Derived Growth Factor Program, blood disorders, infectious disease, anticoagulant use, or pregnancy and breastfeeding require your doctor's confirmation beforehand.

Energy-based devices carry a few of their own. Ultherapy Prime, Thermage FLX, and Sofwave cannot be performed if you have a pacemaker, defibrillator, or another implanted electronic device.

Ultherapy Prime is also not performed if you have a metal implant in the treatment area, and neither Ultherapy Prime nor Sofwave is performed over open wounds or severe (cystic) acne.

Potenza follows the same contraindications as other radiofrequency (RF) treatments. With Titanium Lifting, areas with bleeding or tattoo-like pigment are avoided, care is taken near hair, and the treatment is better avoided where possible for darker skin types (Fitzpatrick type IV or above). With Onda Lifting (use for facial contour is outside the approved purpose · at the doctor's discretion), the forehead is avoided.

If any of these apply to you, say so early — ideally before you book, while there is still time to plan around it.

Yes, including those done elsewhere and those done some time ago. Before designing anything, a doctor looks at the condition of your skin, the direction it has changed in recently, and what treatments you have had before.

It also helps to know what was used. If you have had filler before, the type matters: dissolving applies only to HA fillers, not to PDLLA fillers.

Timing matters as well. After Sofwave, for example, radiofrequency (RF) treatments are generally avoided, and your doctor decides whether to combine them and at what interval.

If you remember how a previous treatment went — a reaction that lasted longer than you expected, a result you liked or did not — that is worth saying too.

Your departure date. Flight timing depends on the type of treatment and how your recovery is going. Tell us your departure date before you book, and your doctor will set the treatment order and the interval before your flight.

Your preferred language. Our interpreters are in-house, not on the phone, so your consultation, treatment day, and aftercare can all happen in your language. Let us know which one when you book.

And how you feel about discomfort. If it is a concern, sedation support and the Comfort Formula can be designed into some sessions under The Comfort Code, and your sensitivity is checked first.

In the Personal Consultant Session, a consultant reviews your concerns, goals, and suitability for the treatment. This is where most of what you share is first heard, in your language.

In the Doctor's Treatment Design, your doctor confirms the plan against everything you have told us. Your doctor decides whether the treatment can go ahead, and if it can, in what form.

Nothing on this list is something to feel awkward about. The more the doctor knows, the more the plan is built for you rather than for an average patient.