A face, studied.

We don't treat what's wrong. We study what's right.

Most aesthetic medicine begins with a treatment. Vela begins with a question: what does this face do well? Every structure, every proportion, every quality of skin that is already working — these are the starting conditions. The intervention, if there is one, follows from that understanding.

The practice sees eight patients a week, by design. Dr. Koh does not carry a treatment menu into the consultation. She carries a notebook.

Sixty minutes before anything else.

Every patient relationship at Vela begins the same way: a face study. Not a consultation. Not a skin assessment. A study — sixty minutes in which Dr. Koh examines the face as a whole: its proportions in profile and in three-quarter view, the quality of light it reflects at different angles, the relationship between its upper, middle, and lower thirds.

No treatment is discussed at a face study. The session exists only to understand. Patients often find this the most useful appointment they have had with a doctor.

The session exists only to understand.

Four services. Nothing else.

The practice is on Tras Street, Tanjong Pagar. The building is a 1970s shophouse, renovated in 2021. The waiting room holds two chairs. Appointments begin on time.

Trained in Singapore and Paris. In practice for six years.

Dr. Koh completed her aesthetic medicine training in Singapore and a dermatology attachment at Hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris. Before medicine she studied design at LASALLE College of the Arts. She has been in practice since 2020.

She sees patients by appointment only. New patients are accepted from the waitlist, which is currently three months. Dr. Koh does not see more than eight patients in a week.

The waitlist is open.

Write to us at hello@vela.sg to join the waitlist for a face study. Include your name and a brief note about what you are hoping to understand. We respond within five working days.

Current wait: approximately three months.