Treatment room one — an empty room with a wooden floor and tall windows, mid-morning.
Treatment room one. 1240 Ninth Street North, Suite 210 — north light, no music, no product wall.

Injectables and skin · Naples, Florida

Two rooms, one injector, no sales desk.

Everything in this practice is done by one person. There is no rotating staff, no package to buy, and nothing is injected on the day you first walk in.

If a treatment will not do what you want it to do, that is written next to the treatment, in the same size as the price.

Book a consultation $125, forty minutes — and a minimum of forty-eight hours before anything is injected.
The corridor to the suite, daylight falling across the floor.
The way in. Suite 210 is at the end; there is no waiting room because there is never more than one appointment at a time.

Who treats you

Claire Merritt, APRN-C

Fourteen years injecting, the last nine of them here. Before Naples: six years in a facial plastic surgery practice in Tampa, which is where I learned what injectables cannot fix and what happens when someone tries anyway.

I hold hospital privileges nowhere and I do not need them; I also do not treat anything that belongs in an operating room. Two or three consultations a month end with me writing down a surgeon's name instead of a plan. That is a normal outcome, not a failed appointment.

Treatment room one — the couch, the supply trolley and the window it is set beside.
Room one. The couch is set against the window because the light you get assessed in should be daylight, not a lamp chosen to flatter.
Credentials
MSN, Advanced Practice Registered Nurse, board-certified (ANCC).
Verify that yourself
No licence number is printed on this page, because a number in a footer proves nothing and you should not take it from me. Search the Florida Department of Health register and read it from the state.
Supervising physician
Daniel Okafor, MD — board-certified dermatologist, on protocol and reachable during all treatment hours.
Volume
Roughly 900 injectable appointments a year. One patient at a time; appointments run 40 to 90 minutes.
An open drawer of sealed sterile instrument packs.
The drawer, open. Everything that touches you comes out of a sealed pack, and the pack is opened in front of you rather than before you arrive.

The index

Five things I do, and where each one stops.

Grouped by the outcome rather than by the device or the brand name, because nobody types a product name into a search bar until after they have already decided. Prices are the starting price for the work described, not a promotion.

Jawline and lower face

From $680 · 45 minutes · settled by week two

Filler placed along the mandibular border to re-draw an edge, occasionally with a few units of neuromodulator into the platysmal bands pulling it down. Swelling for two to four days, bruising in maybe one in five people.

If the problem is laxity, not a lost edge

This will not remove a jowl or lift loose skin under the chin — filler there adds weight and can make the sag read heavier. I will say so at the consultation and send you to a facial plastic surgeon, and the deposit comes back. It also will not change the size of your jaw bone.

The frown line between the brows

From $260, about 20 units · 20 minutes · lasts 10 to 14 weeks

Four to five injection points, no numbing needed, back at work immediately. Onset at day three to five, full effect at two weeks.

Etched lines, and hooded lids

It will not erase a line already etched into the skin at rest — that takes two or three consecutive rounds over a year and often does not go completely. It does nothing for heavy, hooded upper lids, and treating the forehead in that situation usually makes the hooding worse; the fix there is a blepharoplasty from an oculoplastic surgeon. If you want the frown gone permanently, this is a lease, not a purchase.

Blind light across the corner of treatment room two.
Room two, eleven in the morning. The blinds are how the light gets checked before anything is injected.

Midface volume

From $850 per syringe · 45 minutes · lasts 12 to 18 months

Usually one to two syringes on the deep cheek, placed on bone. Immediate change, ten to fifteen per cent of it swelling that leaves by day five.

The most common way this goes wrong

It will not lift jowls, and a cheek filled hard enough to try will make you look wider rather than younger. If you have lost a significant amount of weight in the last six months, wait — your face is still changing and you will pay twice. If anyone is telling you that you need four or more syringes in one sitting, get a second opinion, including from me.

Rough skin texture

From $400 a session, series of three · 60 minutes with numbing · shows at six weeks

Microneedling with radiofrequency. Topical anaesthetic for thirty minutes, then treatment. Red like sunburn for a day, sandpapery for three. Change is gradual and shows around six weeks after the second session.

Try the fourteen-dollar tube first

A tube of adapalene from any pharmacy, used nightly for three months, does more for ordinary rough texture than my first session will. Do that first; if you have done it and want more, book. This also will not clear active acne — treating through a breakout can spread it — and it will not remove deep boxcar or ice-pick scarring, which needs subcision or laser resurfacing that I do not offer.

Lip shape and lipstick bleed

From $700 · 40 minutes · 48 hours of real swelling

Numbing, then a conservative half to one syringe. Do not book this within a week of an event. Bruising is common here.

Why I cap the first appointment

A naturally thin lip does not become a full one in a single appointment, and forcing it produces the flat shelf you can spot across a room — so I cap first-time volume, and some people find that disappointing. It will not fix vertical lip lines on its own; those need resurfacing, and if you smoke, neither will hold. I do not treat anyone under twenty-one for lips, and I do not dissolve and refill on the same day.

The consulting room doors, late daylight across the floor.
Where the consultation happens. No chair, no ring light, no mirror that is not the one you own.

The consultation

Why you leave without being treated.

$125, forty minutes. Credited against treatment if you book within ninety days. Not credited if you don't — it pays for the time, which is the actual product.

We look at your face in daylight and in the mirror you own, not a ring light. I tell you what I would do, what I would not do, what it costs, and what it will look like at week two when it is still settling.

You go home with that in writing. Nothing is injected the same day, ever — there is a minimum of forty-eight hours between the plan and the needle. If someone is willing to treat you within ten minutes of meeting you, that is a sales floor, not a clinic.

Consultations are free if I conclude I should not treat you at all.

The head of the treatment couch in room two.
The head of the couch, room two. Appointments run forty to ninety minutes and there is one at a time, which is why there is one of these and not four.

Ask

Ask a question, or ask for a time.

Replies come from me, usually within one working day. If your question is whether you are a candidate, say what bothers you in your own words — that is more useful than naming a product.