The Journal

Notes on Comfort, Protocol and Compounding

Written for the provider holding the jar. Protocol that actually changes a result, the conversations patients remember, and how a compounded preparation differs from what is on a retail shelf.

Protocol

Why Numbing Fails on Lips — and What Experienced Injectors Do Differently

Lips are the hardest place on the face to numb well and the place patients judge you hardest for getting wrong. Thin vermilion, wet mucosa you cannot treat, a border that is one nerve-dense line, and a patient who will tell six friends how it felt. Here is where the protocol usually breaks.

7 min read
Patient Experience

The Comfort Conversation: What to Tell a Patient Before You Numb

Most of what a patient remembers about comfort is decided before the cream goes on. Four sentences, said in the right order, change how the next forty minutes feel — and they cost nothing but the habit of saying them.

6 min read

Questions the Journal
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