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By Dr. Mara Cassian

Why we draw before we operate

The pencil plan every patient takes home.

Why we draw before we operate

Every first consultation ends the same way: a pencil drawing on a print of your own photograph. It shows what changes, by how much, and what stays.

The drawing is not a sales tool. It is the brief for the operation, the basis of the written quote, and the measure we hold the result against at every follow-up.

It also slows the conversation down. Seeing a change in graphite, at the scale of your face, is often when patients decide on less than they came in for. We count that as a good consultation.

Nothing is promised that the drawing does not show.

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