International patients

Overseas patients:
common questions answered

Medically reviewed by Dr Sin Yong · Last reviewed · 3 min read

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These are the questions visitors from overseas ask most often before planning a trip to Singapore for an aesthetic consultation. Each answer links to a fuller guide. The short version: write on WhatsApp with your dates, plan two to five days for most treatments, allow longer for thread lifts and resurfacing lasers, and expect a written plan and quote only after an in-person assessment.

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Key facts
WhatsApp
+65 8023 7170
Clinic hours
Mon–Fri 10am–8pm, Sat 11am–3pm, Singapore time (GMT+8)
Typical stay
2–5 days; about a week for threads and resurfacing
Fees
Written after assessment
In this guide
  1. Planning
  2. By country
  3. Frequently Asked Questions

Planning

By country

Frequently Asked Questions

A pre-visit conversation by WhatsApp message helps plan the trip. It cannot replace examination, so plans and quotes follow an in-person assessment.

Two days is the shortest useful visit; three to five days covers most injectables and devices; about a week for thread lifts and resurfacing lasers.

A gap of about one to three days is usually planned so swelling can be read and the rare early complication treated in Singapore.

Usually the next day.

About five to seven days is usually planned.

No. Fees are written and itemised after assessment, because the cause of a concern decides what is suitable.

Consultations are in English. WhatsApp messages in Chinese, Japanese, Bahasa Indonesia and Bahasa Melayu are welcome, and you may bring a companion.

A list of medicines and supplements, and the names, areas and dates of earlier aesthetic treatments. Without records, the assessment still goes ahead.

It can be assessed. Hyaluronic acid can be dissolved; collagen stimulators and permanent fillers cannot and are managed differently.

You leave with written aftercare, and questions come back by WhatsApp. Urgent signs after filler need local emergency care immediately.

It depends on your passport; check the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority website. Submit the free SG Arrival Card within three days before arrival.

Yes. Doctors in Singapore are registered with the Singapore Medical Council, and the register is public.

Assessment and treatment are carried out personally by Dr Sin Yong.

Sometimes, if the treatment is suitable and you have had time to consider it. Most visitors take the written plan away overnight.

Even daylight, no make-up or filters, front, both sides at 45 degrees and both profiles.

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Consultations by appointment at Orchard Road, Singapore.

  1. 1WhatsApp a short note on your concern and your travel dates
  2. 2Consultation and assessment with Dr Sin Yong
  3. 3Options explained, including no treatment

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