How we work

What this page is

This is not a results gallery. The gallery is inside each treatment and condition page, where the images sit next to the treatment they belong to. This page explains how those records are made — what is photographed, what is written down, who gave permission, and what none of it proves.

That distinction matters more here than anywhere else on this site. A before-and-after image is the single most persuasive thing a clinic can publish, and it is also the easiest thing to stage. So the useful question is not “do the results look good” but “is there a record, and can you inspect it”.

What a case record contains

Every case on this site is one photograph pair plus one written record. The written record is a definition list with the same handful of fields across all of them:

Field	What it holds
Client profile	Sex and Fitzpatrick skin type — the two things that most change how a treatment is planned
Areas of concern	What the patient came in for, in their words rather than a product name
Treatment plan	What was actually done, including which device or product, and how many sessions
Treatment outcomes	What the treating physician recorded afterwards
Post-treatment darkening	Whether pigment was left behind by the treatment — recorded even when the answer is no
Maintenance	When the next session would be due, and what it would be

Two things about that list are deliberate.

The fields that a marketing page would leave out are in it. Post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation is the complication that matters most after laser, peel and energy treatment in skin types III and above. It is a field on every record, and it is reported even when it is clear. A record that only listed outcomes would be a sales document.

The field names are not perfectly consistent. The source material behind these 167 pages was written over years, and the labels vary — Treatment plan, Treatment Plan and treatment plan all appear, and the pigmentation field turns up under more than ten different wordings. We have left them as they are rather than rewriting nine thousand fields, because rewriting generated clinical records to look tidier is a worse habit than a label in the wrong case. The content of each field is what to read.

Where the images come from

Every before-and-after pair on this site is a clinical photograph of a patient of this clinic. Three things are true of all of them:

Consent is written, not implied. Each patient signed a media release form covering the use of their photographs. A signature is what makes the difference between a clinical record and a photograph of somebody who did not agree to be here.

They are not retouched. What was on the skin is what is in the image — marks, redness, asymmetry included. A clinic that smooths its own photographs has nothing left to compare.

Both images are the same person, at two points in time. They are not two patients, and they are not the same photograph processed twice.

The watermark you see at the bottom of each image — Nanjing Luowei clinic — identifies the clinic the record came from. It sits on the image but is applied to the page rather than burned into the image file, which is why a photograph saved from this site keeps its own pixels and nothing else. If you see one of these images somewhere without it, that is worth asking about.

What these records do not show

They are not a prediction for you. A treatment that worked on one person’s skin type, at one depth, with one device setting, is evidence that the treatment was performed — not evidence of what it will do on yours. Two patients with the same Fitzpatrick type and the same complaint can be planned differently, and one of them may be advised against treatment altogether.

They do not show the patients who did not get a result they wanted. No clinic publishes those, including this one. What compensates for that is the record itself: the fields are fixed in advance, the revision number of the device and the batch of the product are in your own file, and the person who wrote the outcome is the person who did the work.

They do not cover surgery. Every image on this site is a non-surgical treatment — injectables, regenerative treatment, energy-based devices and medical skin care. Where a case needed surgery, it is not here, because it is not done here: the physician refers it to one of the five partner hospital departments.

They do not tell you what it cost. Price is a separate page, and it is settled after the in-person consultation rather than from a gallery.

How to check any of this

The records are useful only if they can be checked, so here is what to ask at your consultation:

• Ask to see the full record for a case that looks like yours — not the website version, the file. The image on this site is one pair; the clinical record behind it is longer than what is published.
• Ask which record is the closest match to your skin type and concern, and what was planned differently for it. The answer is more informative than any single before-and-after.
• Ask whether the physician would treat you at all, and what would make the answer no. A clinic that cannot describe the cases it turns away is describing a sales funnel, not a practice.

Two promises that are about the process, not the result

You verify what is used on you. Before treatment begins you can check the manufacturer’s code on the handpiece against that device’s registration, and read the registration and batch on the vial or syringe while the packaging is still sealed. If a code does not resolve, or the packaging does not match the quotation, treatment stops and nothing is charged.

The price does not move after you agree to it. You receive a written plan and a written quotation after your in-person examination, and nothing is opened, injected or switched on until you have both. If the figure at the clinic differs from the figure you were quoted before you flew, you may walk away without paying anything — that is the arrangement, not a favour.

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If you want to see the records

The gallery lives with each treatment. If you would rather start from the question you are actually asking — “I look tired”, “my skin marks easily”, “my jawline has gone” — the conditions index is organised that way, and each entry carries its own cases.

The free video consultation is the fastest route to the record that matches you. You can ask for it before deciding anything, and there is nothing to pay to hold it.