Juvederm at Oshun is performed by Dr. Charles Rockhead — board-certified, conservatively dosed per millilitre, and mapped to your face. A thirty-minute visit, a two-week settle check, and a result that looks like you with a little more of what you started with.
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Every needle at Oshun is placed by a board-certified Obstetrician and Gynaecologist. Most filler in the Caribbean is delivered by aestheticians or nurses. Dr. Rockhead is a physician first — the same one who treats women's health on the other side of his practice.
Three decades as a practicing OB/GYN at Amadeo Medical Group, the parent clinical practice. Every Juvederm plan is reviewed by a physician who has cared for women through pregnancy, surgery, perimenopause, and post-natal recovery — not just injection appointments.
Every patient gets a chart with their injection sites and per-area volume in millilitres drawn out before any syringe is opened. Returning patients refine the same map — they don't start from scratch every visit. Continuity in writing, not just in promise.
Juvederm is hyaluronic acid — and HA fillers can be dissolved with hyaluronidase if a patient is unhappy with the look. Oshun stocks the reversal agent on site. Permanent fillers and biostimulators are not used here. Conservative, considered, reversible.
The reason filler sometimes goes wrong is rarely the product itself. Juvederm is FDA-approved, used in tens of millions of treatments worldwide, and clinically very safe in trained hands. What goes wrong is how it gets placed.
The common pattern across cosmetic clinics: placement delegated to a non-physician injector, no record of how many millilitres went where last time, no reversal agent stocked on site, and a headline "per syringe" price that conveniently skips the consultation conversation about anatomy. When results come, they're either too subtle to matter, too obvious to hide, or off-balance enough that the patient feels like a different version of themselves.
At Oshun, we don't run that model. The four points above — physician-placed, per-millilitre mapped, fourteen-day settle check, on-site hyaluronidase — are how we replaced it. The rest of this page explains the alternative in plain language so you can decide whether it sounds like the right approach for you.
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A Juvederm visit at Oshun takes about forty-five minutes from the moment you walk in to the moment you walk out. Here is what happens in those forty-five minutes.
Dr. Rockhead studies your face at rest and in motion — how your lips part when you smile, how your cheeks settle when you talk. The volume you've lost (or never had) is rarely symmetric. The exact areas and per-area millilitres are drawn into your chart before any syringe is opened.
The treatment area is cleansed with medical-grade antiseptic. A topical numbing cream is applied and given five to ten minutes to take effect. The Juvederm formulation we use already contains lidocaine, so the comfort layers compound.
Dr. Rockhead uses a fine needle or a blunt-tip cannula depending on the area, placing the planned millilitres at the planned depths. Each placement matches what was written down at step one. Nothing is improvised; nothing is added without your spoken consent.
You see the volume immediately in the mirror. Small marks or a little swelling at the placement points usually settle over the first 24–48 hours. There is no anesthesia and no bandage. You can return to work or meet friends the same afternoon, though some patients prefer to wait a day before being seen on camera. We email a two-week settle-check reminder before you reach your car.
Dr. Charles Rockhead, Medical Director — Oshun Cosmetic Services, Kingston.
Dr. Charles Rockhead is a board-certified Obstetrician and Gynaecologist with more than thirty years of practice in Kingston. He is the Medical Director of Oshun Cosmetic Services and the founding physician of Amadeo Medical Group, the parent clinical practice.
Every Juvederm placement at Oshun is performed by Dr. Rockhead personally — never delegated to nurses, technicians, or junior injectors. The same physician who maps your face is the one who places every millilitre, and the one who sees you again at the two-week settle check. That single-hand continuity is the difference between a quick syringe and a treatment plan.
Most first-time patients arrive with the same set of unspoken questions. They are answered below in the order most people think them — from "how much will I need" to "what if I'm pregnant."
| What it is | Juvederm is the brand name for a family of FDA-approved hyaluronic acid (HA) dermal fillers — a smooth, biocompatible gel that mimics the volumising substance your body already makes. We use it to gently restore volume the face has lost or to enhance contours you'd like more of, without surgery and without permanence. |
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| How long it's been around | Juvederm has been FDA-approved for cosmetic use since 2006 (initial approval for nasolabial folds), with expanded indications added over the years for lips, cheeks, chin and jawline. There are nearly two decades of clinical safety data behind the product family. |
| What we treat with it | Lip volume and definition, cheek volume restoration, nasolabial folds (the lines from nose to mouth), marionette lines (mouth to chin), and jawline contouring or chin projection. Every plan is tailored to your existing anatomy — we add, we don't replace. |
| How much you'll need | Juvederm is measured in millilitres (ml). Typical first-time starting volumes are about 0.5–1.0 ml for lips, 1–2 ml per cheek, 1 ml per nasolabial fold, 0.5–1 ml for marionette lines, and 2–4 ml per side for jawline contouring. Your exact plan is mapped out at consultation — we'd rather you start under and add at follow-up than start too high. |
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| Will it hurt? | Most Juvederm formulations contain lidocaine, so they numb as they go in. We also apply a topical numbing cream beforehand at no extra cost. Most patients describe it as a brief pinch followed by gentle pressure. |
| How long the visit takes | Plan for 30–60 minutes from arrival to walking out the door, depending on how many areas are treated. The injections themselves take ten to twenty minutes. |
| Time off after | None for most patients. Small bruises or swelling are common in the first 24–48 hours, especially in the lips. You can drive yourself home and return to work the same day, though some patients prefer to wait a day before being seen on camera. |
| When you'll see results | You see the volume immediately as the product is placed. Initial swelling settles over the first few days and the final look is visible by about day 14. Duration varies by area: lips 6–12 months, cheeks and jawline 12–18 months, nasolabial folds 9–12 months. Movement-heavy areas (lips, mouth) tend toward the shorter end. |
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| The days before your visit | Skip alcohol for 24 hours beforehand. If it's medically safe for you, also skip aspirin, ibuprofen, fish oil, and other blood-thinning supplements for about a week — these lower the chance of small bruises. Tell us about every medication and supplement you take, and let us know if there's any chance you may be pregnant or breastfeeding. |
| Right after your visit | Avoid heat, vigorous exercise, hot tubs, saunas, and facials for the first 24 hours. Skip makeup for six to twelve hours so the puncture points settle cleanly. Sleep on your back the first night if you can. Ice gently for any swelling. We email a check-in two weeks later. |
| Two-week follow-up | We see you back at the two-week mark to assess how the filler has settled and to check for any small asymmetry or palpable lump. If a top-up would help, it's billed at the standard per-ml rate — and if anything looks off, hyaluronidase can dissolve some or all of the placement, on site, that same visit. |
| Consultation policy | Every patient meets Dr. Rockhead in person at the 9 Devon Road clinic before any treatment is scheduled. (Virtual consultations are not currently offered.) |
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| Where treatments happen | Oshun Cosmetic Services, 9 Devon Road, Kingston, Jamaica. The same address, the same medical team, every visit. |
| What it costs | Juvederm at Oshun is priced per millilitre, not as a flat package. At your consultation you'll receive a written quote with the proposed areas, the millilitres for each, and the total — so there are no surprises before any syringe is opened. We don't advertise a single number because two patients with the same concern often need very different volumes. |
| How to pay | Cash, debit, credit card, or approved financing. |
| Insurance | Cosmetic dermal filler is not covered by insurance, which is standard everywhere. In rare medical cases (e.g. HIV-related facial lipoatrophy) coverage may apply — we provide itemized receipts and the proper diagnostic codes that you can submit to your insurer yourself. |
| Who should not have Juvederm | Patients who are pregnant or breastfeeding, who have an active infection at the injection site, who have a known hypersensitivity to hyaluronic acid or lidocaine, or whose immune-modulating medications would compromise safe placement. Dr. Rockhead reviews your full medical history at consultation before anything is scheduled. |
Juvederm isn't a one-size category — the right area, the right millilitres, and even whether to start at all depend on where you are. Below are the four patient profiles we see most often. If one sounds like you, an in-person consultation at 9 Devon Road is the next step.
First-time lip patients often ask for "just a tiny bit." Oshun starts at 0.5 ml or less, focuses on shape over volume, and revisits at the two-week settle. Two patients can use the same volume and look entirely different because anatomy decides the result — that's why we map first.
The cheek and temple volume the face loses through the late thirties is the structural reason "tired" becomes visible. A conservative 2–4 ml across the mid-face, placed by anatomy, restores the support that everything else is sitting on. Filler is the lift; nothing else is needed.
Jawline and chin filler creates the sculpted shape that ten years ago required surgery or genetics. Typical plans use 2–4 ml per side over one or two visits. Combines well with masseter Botox for full lower-face balance.
Many patients get both at the same appointment — Botox for the lines that come from movement, Juvederm for the volume that comes from time. They work on different problems, and combining them in one consultation means one plan, one set of follow-ups, one written quote.
Every Juvederm patient at Oshun starts with a consultation. Twenty minutes, in-person at 9 Devon Road, with Dr. Rockhead. No syringe is opened, no quote is signed, no pressure either way. You leave with a plan and a price — or you leave with neither.
No obligation · Every consultation is in-person with Dr. Rockhead.
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Most patients land on this page deciding between two things: Juvederm at Oshun, or filler somewhere else. The consultation tells you which one is right. Twenty minutes with Dr. Rockhead at 9 Devon Road, a written quote in your hands, and a real answer about whether this is for you — with no obligation either way.
No obligation · Every consultation is in-person with Dr. Rockhead.