★ SOSA for Hair Transplant and Hair Restoration Clinics
Six cheap levers, ranked by effect per rupee - and scent is number six, not number one
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
★★★★★
"Paired it with the SOSA hotel oils. The projection is genuinely lobby-strength - nothing like a plug-in."
SOSA Vaayu · workspace
★★★★★
"My reception now smells like a five-star lobby. Guests comment on it before they even reach the desk."
SOSA Vaayu · lobby scenting
★★★★★
"Zero dampness, which was my worry in monsoon. The mist is completely dry and the scent carries across the whole salon."
SOSA Vaayu · spa & salon
★★★★★
"Set the timer once and forgot about it. Runs only during store hours, refills last weeks. Exactly what I wanted."
SOSA Vaayu · showroom
★★★★★
"Our old water diffuser couldn't fill the living-dining. This one does the whole floor and you can't hear it running."
SOSA Vaayu · large home
★★★★★
"The app scheduling is the best part - strong in the mornings, gentle in the evening. Clinic feels calm all day."
SOSA Vaayu · wellness studio
★★★★★
"Paired it with the SOSA hotel oils. The projection is genuinely lobby-strength - nothing like a plug-in."
SOSA Vaayu · workspace
★★★★★
"My reception now smells like a five-star lobby. Guests comment on it before they even reach the desk."
SOSA Vaayu · lobby scenting
★★★★★
"Zero dampness, which was my worry in monsoon. The mist is completely dry and the scent carries across the whole salon."
SOSA Vaayu · spa & salon
★★★★★
"Set the timer once and forgot about it. Runs only during store hours, refills last weeks. Exactly what I wanted."
SOSA Vaayu · showroom
★★★★★
"Our old water diffuser couldn't fill the living-dining. This one does the whole floor and you can't hear it running."
SOSA Vaayu · large home
★★★★★
"The app scheduling is the best part - strong in the mornings, gentle in the evening. Clinic feels calm all day."
SOSA Vaayu · wellness studio
★ The sixth lever, once the first five are done
SOSA SukoonOne reception, one machine, ₹1,899View ₹1,899SOSA SukoonThree 15ml fragrances in the boxView ₹1,899SOSA SukoonBuy it last, not firstView ₹1,899
✓ 270-320 sq ft of coverage, which is most single-room clinic receptions and no more ✓ Three 15ml hotel-inspired fragrances included, so the total spend is one line on an invoice ✓ Made in India · independent, not affiliated with any hotel · a portion funds girl-child education
Founder Diaries · Commercial Scenting Guides · Hair Clinics
Where does fragrance actually rank? Sixth of six. Ahead of it: clutter and cabling, light temperature, the sound floor, seating spacing and the AC setting. Scent is genuinely on the list - I am not talking you out of it - but it is the last five per cent of an environment that is already right, not a substitute for the other ninety-five. A reception with a fluorescent tube, a television playing an advertisement and chairs pushed against each other will not be rescued by a diffuser, and adding one just gives you a bright noisy room that also smells of something.
What does the whole list cost? Four of the six cost nothing at all - clutter, seating spacing, the AC setpoint and switching the television off are decisions rather than purchases. Relamping a small reception to a warm colour temperature is usually a few thousand rupees of bulbs. And the fragrance step is one SOSA Sukoon at ₹1,899 for a reception under about 750 sq ft, or a Morning Freshness reed from ₹749. A Vaayu at ₹11,999 would be the wrong buy in a room this size.
See the SOSA Sukoon Book a scenting plan
Facts verified 5 September 2026 against the live SOSA product pages: the SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) is a waterless cold-air nebuliser rated to 1000m³, described by the manufacturer as approximately 2,000-3,000 sq ft, with adjustable intensity, a 400ml refillable tank lasting 90+ days a fill depending on intensity and run hours, Bluetooth app and button control, 1h/4h/8h/24h timers, operation under 38dB at 5W, freestanding or wall and HVAC mounting, auto-stop and key-lock, and CE, RoHS and SGS certification, which are electrical and compliance marks and not medical approvals. Being waterless, it adds no moisture and leaves no residue on surfaces or equipment. The SOSA Sukoon (₹1,899) is an ultrasonic cool-mist diffuser covering roughly 270-320 sq ft and is supplied with three 15ml fragrances; the water-based Hotel Collection (₹299 / ₹999 / ₹1,799) is an ultrasonic fragrance and is not a refill for a waterless cold-air machine. SOSA reed diffusers are alcohol-free and phthalate-free, with 50ml lasting about 6-8 weeks and 130ml about 14-18 weeks. Cold-air refill oil for the Vaayu is not currently sold separately - the machine ships with 400ml included and further refills should be confirmed with SOSA. Warranty, annual maintenance, installation and bulk terms are not published and should be confirmed before ordering. Ambient scent is an interior and hospitality decision: it makes no clinical, therapeutic or wellbeing claim, it works alongside proper ventilation, cleaning and infection control and is never a substitute for any of them, it is never used to mask another smell, and no claim is made that fragrance influences a patient's decision or any commercial outcome. Clinical areas including procedure, post-procedure and photography rooms are left unscented, and the treating clinician's judgement overrides any scenting plan in their own room. The hotel-inspired scents are SOSA's own original interpretations; SOSA is an independent brand and is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, any hotel named for reference. Coverage, fragrance usage and running cost depend on the space, settings and hours of use, and are confirmed on a consultation. Prices and availability are subject to change - see the live product pages.
Almost every founder who asks me this has already decided the answer is fragrance, and is really asking permission. I would rather sell you one ₹1,899 machine and tell you it is sixth on the list than sell you the same machine and let you believe it is first.
Quick answers — read this first
What is the cheapest thing that changes a reception the most? Removing things. Clutter and visible cabling are the single largest gap between a clinic that looks expensive in photographs and one that looks expensive in person - the loose extension board under the desk, the router on the ledge, the standee left over from a camp, the box of files behind the sofa. It costs nothing but an afternoon and a few cable clips, and it moves the room further than anything else on this list. Nobody consciously registers cabling. Everybody registers the room that has none.Where does fragrance actually rank? Sixth of six. Ahead of it: clutter and cabling, light temperature, the sound floor, seating spacing and the AC setting. Scent is genuinely on the list - I am not talking you out of it - but it is the last five per cent of an environment that is already right, not a substitute for the other ninety-five. A reception with a fluorescent tube, a television playing an advertisement and chairs pushed against each other will not be rescued by a diffuser, and adding one just gives you a bright noisy room that also smells of something.
What does the whole list cost? Four of the six cost nothing at all - clutter, seating spacing, the AC setpoint and switching the television off are decisions rather than purchases. Relamping a small reception to a warm colour temperature is usually a few thousand rupees of bulbs. And the fragrance step is one SOSA Sukoon at ₹1,899 for a reception under about 750 sq ft, or a Morning Freshness reed from ₹749. A Vaayu at ₹11,999 would be the wrong buy in a room this size.
The short answer
Short answer: yes, and mostly without spending anything. Clear the clutter and visible cabling, fix the light colour temperature, lower the sound floor, space the seating properly, set the AC sensibly - and only then add fragrance. Scent is the sixth lever, not the first, and at this size it is a Sukoon at ₹1,899 or a reed from ₹749 rather than a five-figure machine.
The pick: one SOSA Sukoon (₹1,899) in the reception once the first five levers are done - or a Mountain Breeze reed (₹849) if you want no machine in the room at all.
Next step: send two photos of your reception - one from the door and one from the seating - and we will tell you which of the six levers is costing you the most and where scent sits in your particular room - Ask for a clinic scenting plan.
In this guide
Four of these six cost nothing. The fifth costs a set of bulbs. The sixth is the one everybody asks about first, and it belongs at the bottom.
The small-reception machine - tap to see the specification
For a reception under about 750 sq ft
SOSA Sukoon ₹1,899
The whole arrival, cheaply
How can a small clinic create a premium arrival?
Get the zoning confirmed
Free clinic scenting plan
Straight answer
How do you make a hair clinic reception feel more expensive without renovating it?
By removing things, in a specific order, and by treating fragrance as the sixth item on that list rather than the first. Here is the ranking, by effect per rupee. One: clutter and visible cabling. This is free and it is the biggest single move available to almost every clinic I am sent photographs of. The extension board coiled under the desk, the router blinking on a ledge, a printer cable taped along the skirting, the standee from a camp three months ago, the cardboard box of files behind the sofa. None of it is consciously noticed and all of it is registered. An afternoon, a bin bag and forty rupees of cable clips will change a room more than anything else here. Two: light colour temperature. Cool white tubes at 6500K are the reason a beautifully finished reception still photographs like a diagnostic lab. Move to a warm 3000K, get the light off the ceiling grid and onto walls and surfaces where you can, and put a lamp on the desk. A small reception is usually a few thousand rupees of bulbs. Three: the sound floor. Most clinic receptions are louder than their owners think - a television playing a treatment video, a duct rattling, a printer, a phone on speaker at the desk. Switch the television off entirely, and if you must have sound, keep it below the level of ordinary conversation. Quiet reads as expensive; nothing else does it as cheaply. Four: seating spacing. This nearly always means fewer chairs, which founders resist because it looks like losing capacity. Two comfortable chairs with space between them read as a lounge; six pushed together read as an OPD waiting area, and hair restoration patients in particular do not enjoy sitting shoulder to shoulder with each other. Five: temperature. A reception at 19°C is not luxurious, it is institutional, and a patient who has just come in off the road notices the shock. Somewhere around 24°C is a better default. Six, and only now: scent. Clean, dry, cool - white tea, a dry light citrus, soft woods - at a level below anything nameable. For a reception under about 750 sq ft that is one SOSA Sukoon at ₹1,899, or a Morning Freshness reed from ₹749 if you would rather have no machine in the room. A Vaayu at ₹11,999 would be the wrong buy here and I would tell you so before taking the order. Two limits, stated plainly rather than buried: this is an ambience decision with no clinical, therapeutic or wellbeing claim of any kind, and fragrance sits alongside cleaning and ventilation, never instead of them, and is never used to mask another smell - if the room has a damp or drainage problem, fix the building first. Procedure, recovery and photography rooms stay unscented whatever you do to the reception. Ask for a clinic scenting plan and send two photos.
Clear the clutter and cabling, warm the lighting, drop the sound floor, space the seating, set the AC sensibly - then add scent. Four of those cost nothing, and the fragrance step is ₹1,899, not ₹11,999.
The sixth lever, once the first five are done: one SOSA Sukoon - ultrasonic cool-mist, 270-320 sq ft of coverage, three 15ml fragrances included. ₹1,899, total, nothing else to buy. If you would rather have no machine visible at all, a Morning Freshness reed at ₹749 does the same job more slowly.
See the SOSA Sukoon ₹1,899 Ask for a clinic scenting plan
The free half of the list
Four of the six levers are decisions, not purchases
The sixth lever, and what it costs
When you get to the fragrance step, the honest hardware for a room of this size is small and cheap. These are the two I would actually put in a reception under about 750 sq ft.
The machine answer, under about 750 sq ft
SOSA Sukoon
Ultrasonic cool-mist diffuser covering roughly 270-320 sq ft, supplied with three 15ml hotel-inspired fragrances. For a single reception this is the entire specification at ₹1,899. Run it on short cycles rather than continuously, and place it away from the desk so your receptionist is not the person taking the full dose.
From ₹1,899
The no-machine answer, from ₹749
SOSA Morning Freshness reed diffuser
Malabar lemon, peppermint and eucalyptus on a coconut-derived base, alcohol-free and phthalate-free, six fibre reeds, flipped weekly. 50ml lasts 6-8 weeks at ₹749; 130ml lasts 14-18 weeks at ₹1,249. A reed is a volume control rather than a range control - it will hold a small reception and no more.
From ₹749
The five levers that come first
Three of the five, grouped as I would actually do them - a morning, an electrician's visit and a decision about chairs. None of it is a renovation.
1
Spend one morning removing things
Clutter and visible cabling, free, and the biggest single move
Start with a photograph. Stand at the entrance, take a picture on your phone, and look at it on a laptop rather than the phone screen - the camera is far more honest about a room than your eye is, because you have stopped seeing your own reception. Now list everything in the frame that is not deliberate. The extension board, the router, the printer cable along the skirting, the standee, the file box, the stack of brochures, the sun-bleached certificate frame, the bin visible from the seating. Clip the cables, move the router, bin the standee, and get the files into a cupboard. This is the lever with the best ratio on the list by a wide margin, and it is the one nobody wants because it is unglamorous work rather than a purchase.
Tip: Take the same photograph a week later. If the standee has come back, the problem was never the standee.
2
Fix the light before you fix anything else you pay for
6500K tubes are why a good interior still reads as a lab
Colour temperature does more to a reception's character than the furniture in it. A ceiling grid of cool white tubes flattens marble, makes wood look grey and makes skin look unwell, which is a particularly unfortunate combination in a clinic where people have come to talk about how they look. Move to warm white around 3000K, and where you can, get light off the grid and onto vertical surfaces - a wall washer, a picture light, a lamp on the desk - so the room has some depth rather than one flat plane of overhead light. In a small reception this is usually a few thousand rupees of lamps and an electrician for an hour. It is the only lever on this list I would happily spend real money on.
Tip: Keep every bulb in the reception at the same colour temperature. Mixed warm and cool in one room is worse than either alone.
3
Lower the sound floor, then space the chairs
Quiet and distance read as expensive; both are free
Most receptions are noisier than their owners believe, because owners are not sitting in them. A television playing a treatment loop, a rattling duct, a printer beside the desk, a phone on speaker - each is small and together they set a floor that no amount of marble gets you above. Switch the television off entirely and see how the room feels; if you want sound at all, keep it below ordinary conversation. Then the chairs. Fewer, further apart, is almost always right, and in hair restoration specifically, patients tend not to want to sit close to other patients. Two well-spaced chairs read as a lounge; six in a row read as an OPD. And keep at least one seating area effectively unscented, which is easier when there is space between the seats to begin with.
Tip: Sit in your own waiting area for fifteen minutes, at a busy hour, with your phone in your pocket. You will find the sound problem in the first five.
The SOSA principle
A reception is made expensive by subtraction - cables, clutter, noise, chairs, degrees on the thermostat - and fragrance is the one item on the list that you add, which is exactly why it belongs last.
Anything you add to a room that has not been subtracted from first just becomes one more thing in the frame.
The six, ranked by effect per rupee
Print this and work down it. If you get to row six with budget left, you have done the first five properly.
The SOSA plan
Six ways to make a clinic reception feel more expensive, in the order to do them
| The lever | What to do |
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1. Clutter and visible cabling
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Photograph the room from the door, then remove everything in the frame that is not deliberate. Clip cables, hide the router, bin the standee. Free, and the largest single change available. |
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2. Light colour temperature
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Move to warm white around 3000K, keep every bulb in the room matched, get some light onto walls rather than all of it onto the floor. A few thousand rupees of lamps. |
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3. The sound floor
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Television off. Printer moved. Duct rattle logged for maintenance. No speakerphone at the desk. Quiet is the cheapest luxury signal there is. |
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4. Seating spacing
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Fewer chairs, further apart. Patients here do not want to sit shoulder to shoulder. Keep one seating area effectively unscented while you are at it. |
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5. Temperature
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Around 24°C rather than 19°C. A cold reception reads as institutional, not premium, and it is the first thing a patient feels after the door. |
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6. Scent, last
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Clean, dry, cool, below anything nameable. One Sukoon at ₹1,899 under about 750 sq ft, or a reed from ₹749. Not a Vaayu at this size. |
If your clinic is small and the whole arrival is what you are trying to fix rather than just the room, the choreography version of this is in how a small hair transplant clinic can create a premium arrival experience. And if you have already done all six levers and want to know whether scent is worth adding at all, that argument is made honestly in can ambient scent become the final layer of the experience. SOSA is independent and not affiliated with any hotel.
Five free levers first, then ₹1,899
The SOSA Sukoon covers 270-320 sq ft with three 15ml fragrances included - the whole sixth step, on one line of an invoice.
If a diffuser is the first thing you buy for a reception, it will be the most expensive ₹1,899 you ever spend - because it will let you feel finished when you are not.
— Sonal Sahani, SOSA
Why the small machine is the right one here
A single reception does not need a five-figure machine, and I will say so
The SOSA small-reception specification
For a room this size there are two honest answers and neither of them is expensive. The reed is quieter and slower; the machine gives you an on and off. Made in India, composed in Pune, to IFRA standards and phthalate-free, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
The SOSA hair-clinic specification
The fragrance step for a reception under about 750 sq ft
| Machine | Best for | Why it works | Price |
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SOSA Sukoon
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A single clinic reception, no renovation, sixth on the list | 270-320 sq ft coverage, three 15ml fragrances included, ₹1,899 total | ₹1,899 View → |
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SOSA Morning Freshness reed diffuser
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A small reception where you want no machine visible at all | Malabar lemon, peppermint, eucalyptus; six reeds flipped weekly; 50ml ₹749 lasts 6-8 weeks | ₹749 View → |
Do the five free or nearly-free levers before you buy the sixth, and expect most of the change to come from them. Fragrance here is an ambience decision like lighting or seating and carries no clinical, therapeutic or wellbeing claim; it works alongside cleaning and ventilation, never instead of them, and is never used to mask another smell - a damp or drainage problem is fixed in the building, not in a diffuser; and procedure, recovery and photography rooms stay completely unscented however good the reception gets, with your judgement as the treating clinician overriding any plan in your own rooms. Ask for a clinic scenting plan before you spend anything.
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A note from Sonal
When a founder asks me how to make a reception feel more luxurious without renovating, they have usually already decided that fragrance is the answer and are looking for someone to agree. I sell fragrance, so agreeing would be easy. But I have looked at enough clinic photographs to know that in most of them the scent is not the sixth-best thing they could do - it is the sixth-best thing they could do, in order, and there are five in front of it that cost almost nothing.
The pattern is remarkably consistent. Good furniture, real stone, a proper logo behind the desk - and then a router on a ledge, a cable taped to the skirting, a 6500K tube grid, a television playing a treatment video to nobody, six chairs pushed together and the AC at 19°C. The room is fighting itself, and a diffuser added to that argument just becomes one more voice in it. Take a photograph from the door and look at it on a laptop. You will see your own reception properly for the first time in about two years, and you will find your first three levers in the frame.
Then, and genuinely then, buy the fragrance. For a reception under about 750 sq ft it is one Sukoon at ₹1,899, or a Morning Freshness reed at ₹749 if you would rather nothing sat on a surface. A Vaayu at ₹11,999 would be the wrong buy in this room and I would rather lose the sale than pretend otherwise. Keep it below anything nameable, keep one seating area effectively unscented, let staff switch it off in seconds, and give the procedure, recovery and photography rooms nothing at all. Made in India, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali.
Frequently asked questions
How do I make my hair clinic reception feel more luxurious without renovating it?
Work down six levers in order of effect per rupee. Remove clutter and visible cabling, fix the light colour temperature to a warm 3000K, lower the sound floor by switching the television off, space the seating further apart with fewer chairs, set the AC nearer 24C than 19C, and only then add fragrance. Four of the six cost nothing at all, and the sixth costs Rs 1,899.
Where does ambient scent rank among cheap reception upgrades?
Sixth of six. It is genuinely on the list and worth doing, but it is the last five per cent of an environment that is already right rather than a substitute for the rest. A reception with fluorescent light, a playing television and chairs pushed together is not rescued by a diffuser - you simply get a bright, noisy room that also smells of something.
What is the single biggest free change I can make?
Removing clutter and visible cabling. Photograph the room from the entrance and look at the picture on a laptop rather than a phone, then take out everything in the frame that is not deliberate - the extension board, the router, the taped cable, the old standee, the box of files. It costs an afternoon and a few cable clips and moves the room further than anything else available.
Which machine should a small clinic reception buy, and what is the total?
Under about 750 sq ft the honest answer is one SOSA Sukoon at Rs 1,899, which covers roughly 270-320 sq ft and includes three 15ml fragrances, so the total is Rs 1,899 with nothing else to buy. If you would rather have no machine visible, a Morning Freshness reed diffuser is Rs 749 for 50ml. A Vaayu at Rs 11,999 would be the wrong buy in a room this size.
Will a nicer-feeling reception bring in more consultations?
Nobody can promise that and I will not. Scent, lighting and seating are ambience decisions, and no one can honestly claim they move enquiries, bookings, deposits or any other business number. What a coherent reception does is stop the environment contradicting what the clinic charges. That is a real thing to want, and it is a different thing from a commercial promise.
Five free levers, then one small machine
SOSA — Clinic Scenting for hair transplant and hair restoration clinics
The SOSA Sukoon (₹1,899) covers about 270-320 sq ft and includes three 15ml hotel-inspired fragrances, which is the whole sixth step for a single reception; a Morning Freshness reed from ₹749 does it with no machine at all. Made in India, composed in Pune, and a portion of every order supports girl-child education through Nanhi Kali. Send two photos of the room and we will rank your six.
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Editorial standards & sources
About this guide: Written by Sonal Sahani, ISIPCA Versailles-trained founder and perfumer at SOSA Home & Body. Product recommendations reflect the SOSA range; the planning advice applies to any brand.Facts verified 5 September 2026 against the live SOSA product pages: the SOSA Vaayu (₹11,999) is a waterless cold-air nebuliser rated to 1000m³, described by the manufacturer as approximately 2,000-3,000 sq ft, with adjustable intensity, a 400ml refillable tank lasting 90+ days a fill depending on intensity and run hours, Bluetooth app and button control, 1h/4h/8h/24h timers, operation under 38dB at 5W, freestanding or wall and HVAC mounting, auto-stop and key-lock, and CE, RoHS and SGS certification, which are electrical and compliance marks and not medical approvals. Being waterless, it adds no moisture and leaves no residue on surfaces or equipment. The SOSA Sukoon (₹1,899) is an ultrasonic cool-mist diffuser covering roughly 270-320 sq ft and is supplied with three 15ml fragrances; the water-based Hotel Collection (₹299 / ₹999 / ₹1,799) is an ultrasonic fragrance and is not a refill for a waterless cold-air machine. SOSA reed diffusers are alcohol-free and phthalate-free, with 50ml lasting about 6-8 weeks and 130ml about 14-18 weeks. Cold-air refill oil for the Vaayu is not currently sold separately - the machine ships with 400ml included and further refills should be confirmed with SOSA. Warranty, annual maintenance, installation and bulk terms are not published and should be confirmed before ordering. Ambient scent is an interior and hospitality decision: it makes no clinical, therapeutic or wellbeing claim, it works alongside proper ventilation, cleaning and infection control and is never a substitute for any of them, it is never used to mask another smell, and no claim is made that fragrance influences a patient's decision or any commercial outcome. Clinical areas including procedure, post-procedure and photography rooms are left unscented, and the treating clinician's judgement overrides any scenting plan in their own room. The hotel-inspired scents are SOSA's own original interpretations; SOSA is an independent brand and is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, any hotel named for reference. Coverage, fragrance usage and running cost depend on the space, settings and hours of use, and are confirmed on a consultation. Prices and availability are subject to change - see the live product pages.