About
A clinic that will talk you out of things.
MMC Wellness has run medical aesthetics clinics in Greater Vancouver since 2011. This is the North Shore one, and it opens on 18 September 2026.
Why this address
We took space inside a plastic surgery clinic on purpose. Most aesthetic clinics can only offer you what they own — a laser, a needle, a machine on a payment plan. The awkward questions come up anyway: is this going to do anything for me, is this the wrong tool, would surgery actually be less than what I am about to spend over three years? Being in the same building as three plastic surgeons is the cheapest possible way to answer those honestly.
We are not the surgeons
North Shore Plastic Surgery is a separate company. We coordinate consultations for self-pay cosmetic surgery; we do not perform surgery and we do not bill for theirs.
We do not do insured work
No MSP billing, no reconstructive surgery, no hand and wrist. That is the other practice at this address, and it is not a service we can sell you.
Chinese is a first language here
Roughly half of MMC's patients across Greater Vancouver have their consultations in Mandarin or Cantonese. Nothing about that is an accommodation; it is how the clinic runs.
How a first visit actually goes
Nobody is measured for anything on the first visit. You describe what bothers you, someone looks at it, and you get told what the realistic options are — including the option of doing nothing, which is a real answer and not a polite one. If a treatment is unlikely to get you where you want, we would rather say so than sell you three sessions of it.
You get a number before you commit
Non-surgical prices are published on the treatment pages. Surgical quotes are written, itemised, and given after an examination — never a range quoted over the phone.
Aftercare is here, not somewhere else
Post-operative skin work, scar management and the follow-up call happen in this building, with the people who know what was done.
Nothing is sold at the door
You are quoted for what you came about. Nobody adds a bundle at the counter, and medical services here are priced the same on your first visit as your fifth.
What we are
and are not
Written out plainly, because a co-located partnership is exactly the arrangement people misread.
- A separate company
- MMC Anti-Aging @ North Shore and North Shore Plastic Surgery share an address and refer to each other. We are not partners in a legal sense, not a merged practice, and not one billing entity.
- Self-pay only
- Every service we offer is paid by the patient. If you are looking for something MSP covers, we are the wrong clinic and will tell you so on the phone.
- Regulated advertising
- Clinic advertising in BC is regulated by the provincial medical regulator. Among other things it rules out quoting patients about their results, promising an outcome, and ranking yourself against other physicians. You will not find any of that here — and it is worth noticing where you do.
- Results vary
- Everything on this site describes what a treatment is intended to do. What it will do for you depends on your skin, your anatomy and your history, which is what the consultation is for.
Come and ask something
Get in touchNot sure where you fit?
These are sorted by what is bothering you rather than by treatment name. Each page says what actually helps, what does not, and when the honest answer is that nothing here is needed.
- Loose Skin After Weight LossLosing the weight is the hard part and you have done it. What is left is usually a skin problem rather than a fat problem, and those have completely different answers.
- Fatigue & Low EnergyThis is the concern where we are least likely to sell you anything, and we would rather say that at the top of the page than at the end of a consultation.
- Dullness & Uneven ToneDullness and dehydration are a texture problem, not a shape problem. That distinction decides which half of the menu is even relevant.
- Volume Loss & HollowsVolume loss is the change people describe as looking tired or gaunt without being able to name a line. It is also the one where over-treatment is most visible from across a room.
- Forehead & Frown LinesForehead and frown lines are muscle before they are skin. The question that decides your result is not the dose — it is whether the line is still only there when you move.
- Hooded Upper LidsThe line where this stops being an injectable question and becomes a surgical one is unusually clear, and you are entitled to be told which side of it you are on.
- Jawline & Contour LossThe most common reason people book here, and the one where the honest answer changes most with age. In your forties a device usually does it. In your sixties it usually does not.
- Nasolabial FoldsNasolabial folds are usually a symptom. Filling the fold itself is the most common way to end up looking heavy in the lower face.
- Stubborn Body FatA pocket that stays the same size while the rest of you changes. Usually the flanks, the lower abdomen, or under the chin. The useful question is not which machine to use — it is whether what you are looking at is fat at all.
- Under-Eye Hollows & ShadowsThe most common request here, and the one where the answer is most often no. Under-eye shadow has at least four causes and filler helps exactly one of them.