New City

Dr Lynn Theron

Cosmetic medicine physician (Botox injector)

I’ve done emergency as long as I’ve done cosmetic medicine now. Emergency work is incredibly rewarding, but Botox is my art form. It’s like sculpting someone’s face. We use it a lot for softening muscles. With a few injections we can soften or eliminate that angry appearance. It costs about $100 to do your lips, but the most you’d pay would be about $1000, which would do your entire face and part of your neck. It’s safe with minimal side-effects. Most people probably do it twice a year because they don’t like looking paralysed. I got the opportunity to train in cosmetic medicine about 12 years ago while I was doing an emergency medicine programme at Auckland City Hospital. I got involved because it was a way of positively enhancing people’s lives.
I have clients from when I started, so from a relationship point of view it’s
a beautiful medicine. It’s more like general practice than in emergency where people come and go. We have clients from everywhere — not just Auckland. They fly up from Queenstown, Blenheim, Gore, you name it. We are also seeing more men. They’re usually in their thirties, but I had a guy in his eighties come in recently. It’s like a medical procedure, but you just pop in and have a few injections and that’s it. It has that feel-good factor.

Theron is also a fellow consultant specialist in emergency medicine at Auckland City Hospital.

By Lauren Mentjox.