Emma: So just another question in regards to your pricing. These procedures are known to be quite expensive. So how do you determine the price of what you do?
Aarti: Pricing of procedures, I know we get different messages about how procedures are priced. For example, someone says “I will do one area of Botox for £99”. Then another person says “I will do the whole face for £99”.
Then you think “how can there be such a huge difference?” – well here is why:
Firstly, it has to do with how much product and what product you’re using. That is there, I agree. Consider that a one vial of Botox costs no less than £89 or so, and other brands a bit less. None of them are cheap. As long as you get a good brand you are roughly spending £60 to £80 pounds for getting that one vial and getting it on prescription, so it is the doctors time and the prescription time as well. And thus, the national average for a wrinkle injection treatments like botulinum would vary between £250 to £350 pounds. So it is trying to keep within that margin really. About these treatments areas: I wouldn’t be too precise about the areas before assessing the patient. Again, the number of areas needed to treat will depend upon the person you are treating. The bottom line is that you’re not really looking to spend more than £400 pounds or so when you just want to have your face treated with Botox.
Coming to dermal fillers, you have the Rolls Royce range of fillers and then you’ve got the ones which have got CE accreditation and nothing more. People are trying to introduce them more. They are all good, they have all been checked. But the FDA approved ones, I know they’re going to do what it says on the tin so I mostly just use those top five, nothing else. For me it is less brain work.
Fillers, if they are hyaluronic acid, which are things like Juvederm, Restylane, Belotero, these are the ones that can be totally dissolved, so those they would cost anywhere between £280 per ml – going up to £400 per ml depending on the expertise of the person and where they are working from, because you’ve got to take into account that time as well. And why does a doctor hope to have to charge more? It is basically because they have to pay more to the government to actually do the work. To be in practice, a doctor has to spend almost £450 pounds each year just to remain on the General Medical Council register.
Treatments offered at Reverse Time are priced fairly and in keeping with the qualifications of the treating doctor, the bespoke and personalised nature of the assessment, and the doctor’s time and skill involved in selecting and providing an optimum combination of treatments for your needs.
Reverse Time treatments are not cheap. However they are priced to be affordable, and to encourage loyal patients to maintain their skin health and wellbeing. We do not believe in luxury pricing, as many treatments such as skin resurfacing and peeling for acne scars, botulinum toxin for distressing frown muscles, excessive sweating, and dermal fillers for improving the appearance of severe volume loss and scarring – are not simply for vanity, they are for improving the quality of one’s life.
You understand that is it difficult to give prices for treatments without considering the nature of treatment, the type of product used, and the complexity of the treatment. The product is not the treatment. The way it is used is the actual treatment.
