Simulation is a conversation tool, not a contract. Used honestly it prevents more disappointment than any consent form.
A nine-camera capture gives us a millimetre-accurate surface. What it cannot model is how your tissue behaves once it is released, or how you heal. So we show two proposals — the conservative one first — and we say out loud which parts are predictions rather than plans.
The value is in what patients reject. Roughly one in three change what they came in asking for after seeing it from the side.