Woodside Med Spa opened in 2016, in a ground-floor space three minutes from the 61st Street–Woodside station, and it has stayed deliberately small. Four clinicians, four suites, four books. No branches, no group, no investor with a target for how much product leaves the building in a quarter.
That last point is not a boast, it is an explanation. Almost everything unusual about how this practice operates — the consultation room with no treatment couch in it, the refusal to sell packages, the free two-week review, the fact that nobody here earns commission — costs money and would be difficult to justify to somebody counting units. It is possible because the person who owns the practice is the person doing the injecting.
One clinician, one client, one suite, a full hour for a first consultation, and a written plan with a written price before anything is booked. That is the whole of the operating model, and everything else on this website is a consequence of it.
What we hold to
Four things we do differently
A full hour to decide, in a room with no couch in it
The consultation happens at a table, not in a treatment chair, because it is very hard to say no while lying down. An hour: your history, your skin in daylight, what you actually want, what would achieve it, what it costs and what it cannot do. Nobody is treated at that appointment unless they asked for that in advance.
No packages, no membership, no points
You pay per treatment, at the price on this website. We do not sell blocks of six, we do not run a loyalty scheme on injectables, and nobody here is paid commission. A discount for committing in advance is a reason to come back that has nothing to do with your face.
The risks in writing, before the day
You get the side effects, the recovery, the failure rate and the rare serious complications on paper, with time to read them at home. If a treatment is a bad idea for your skin type, your medication or your plans next month, we say so and we do not book it.
One clinician, start to finish
You see the same person each visit, in their own suite, on their own schedule. Four clinicians work here and each keeps their own book, so you can choose the one whose work suits you and stay with them.
We claim nobody else's approval, and we name nobody's product. Aesthetic medicine is regulated in New York State, the treatments here that are medical are performed or supervised by our medical director, and every clinician is licensed for what they do. What we will not do is decorate this website with the name of a board, an academy or a manufacturer as though somebody else vouches for us. Nobody outside this practice has reviewed it. So instead of a wall of logos, these pages tell you plainly who will treat you, what they will do, what they will not do, what it costs, what can go wrong and how likely that is. Ask us about any of it before you book.
What we refuse
The list that actually defines this practice
Any clinic can list what it offers. What tells you something is the list of things it has decided not to do, particularly the profitable ones.
- No prepaid packages, no membership, no points scheme on injectables
- No before-and-after photographs, here or anywhere we post
- No manufacturer or product named in any advertising, including this website
- No cosmetic injectable treatment for anybody under eighteen, ever
- No treatment on the day of a first consultation for a first injectable
- No non-surgical nose treatment, on risk grounds
- No commission for any clinician on anything you buy
- No claim of a board, an academy, an award or anybody else's approval
In their words
What clients say
Invented, like everything else on this demonstration site, and not marked up as reviews. No rating is claimed anywhere on this website.
“I came in wanting filler in my cheeks and left with a peel programme and a bill for a consultation. Six months later she asked whether I still wanted the filler, and I did not.”
“He would not treat me because I had been in Puerto Rico three weeks earlier. I was annoyed at the time. He then explained what a laser does to a tan and I stopped being annoyed.”
“The consultation is at a table, not in the chair. I did not realise how much difference that makes until I said no to something and nothing awkward happened.”
“What I remember is being handed the risks on paper and told to read them at home. Nobody had ever made me leave the building to think about it before.”
“I asked for the strongest peel they do. She said no twice and started me on the light one. By the fourth appointment I understood why.”
“They told me at the first appointment that my hair loss needed blood tests before anything else. It did. That is not what I wanted to hear and it was the right answer.”
Questions
About us — the questions we are asked most
Who owns this practice?
Dr. Vasquez-Ferreira, who opened it in 2016 and still treats here four days a week. It is not part of a chain and there is no outside investor, which is relevant to how it operates: there is no group target for injectable volume and nobody is paid commission on what you buy.
Why do you not advertise brand names?
Because naming a manufacturer is advertising for them, and because it makes people shop for a product rather than for the person injecting it. Aesthetic marketing runs on brand names precisely because they let a clinic borrow authority it has not earned. We will tell you exactly what we are using in the room, as part of your consent.
Why no before-and-after photographs?
Because they are not evidence: selected from a larger pile, taken in different light at a different angle, often with makeup in one and not the other, and always of somebody else's face. /results-and-expectations.html sets out what we publish instead, which is less flattering to us and considerably more useful to you.
Do you sell packages or memberships?
No, and we do not intend to. Prepaying puts your money in our till before anybody knows whether a treatment suits you, and a loyalty scheme attached to a medical treatment is a reason to have more of it that has nothing to do with your face.
How many people do you turn away?
More than most places. About half of the people who ask for under-eye treatment here are advised against it, cellulite treatment is regularly talked down, and a fresh tan moves a laser appointment without discussion. Being told no is a normal outcome of a consultation and it costs the same as being told yes.
Is this a real business?
No. Woodside Med SPA, LLC is a fictional practice and this site is a demonstration of what can be designed, provisioned, deployed and hosted through MaiaHost. The clinicians, the prices, the premises and the client comments are all invented, and every telephone number is a placeholder.
No before-and-after photographs, and no promised outcome. There are no before-and-after photographs on this website and there never will be. Every set you have seen somewhere else was chosen from a much larger pile, and the second picture is usually taken in different light, at a different angle, at a different time of day, often with makeup and frequently after retouching. Even an entirely honest pair shows you what happened to somebody else's face. What we publish instead is what a treatment typically changes, by roughly how much, how long it lasts, how many sessions it usually takes and how often people are disappointed. We do not guarantee an outcome, we cannot, and anybody who does is either guessing or selling.
A written plan and a written price before anything is booked
Book a consultation
Pick a clinician and an hour from the calendar — it shows only the times each of them genuinely has free. A consultation is a full hour at a table with no treatment couch in the room, and it costs $85, or $120 with the medical director. If you go ahead, that comes off your first treatment. If we tell you the answer is nothing, or a dermatologist, it costs exactly the same.