Concern
You describe what you’ve noticed, in your own words and without a form. What it looks like in the morning, what it does after a hot day, whether it itches, whether anyone in the family has it.
Dermatology · Bandra West, Mumbai
Skin treated asa diagnosis,not a menu.
Forty-five minutes with one dermatologist. A written plan, priced and in your hands before you leave. No packages, and no treatment sold on the first visit.
Follicle & oil gland
Acne and acne scarringfrom ₹3,500 / session
Responds in six to eight weeks.
What brings you in?
Tap a concern to see where it lives in the skin
- First appointment
- 45 minutes
- Consultation
- ₹2,500
- Dermoscopy
- Included
- Written plan
- Same visit
The position
Most skin clinics in this city will offer you a course of six sessions before anyone has looked closely at your face. We work the other way round.
It isn’t malice — packages are simply easier to sell than uncertainty, and uncertainty is what most skin actually presents as. Roughly half the people who arrive expecting a treatment leave with a prescription and a follow-up date.
Approach
How an appointment here is structured.
Appointments are by WhatsApp or phone. The clinic replies within clinic hours, usually the same morning.
History
What you’ve already used and for how long — prescription, over-the-counter, or something recommended by a salon. This matters more than most people expect. A great deal of stubborn acne is irritation from a product someone was sold.
Assessment
Examination under proper lighting, dermoscopy where relevant, and bloodwork where the presentation calls for it. If a diagnosis can’t be made in one sitting, we say so rather than guess and treat.
Plan
Written down, priced, and split three ways: what’s essential, what’s optional, and what to leave alone. You keep the paper. If the honest answer is nothing needs treating, that’s a good outcome and it’s still ₹2,500.
Fees
Charged per session, never as a package.
A package commits you to six sessions before anyone knows whether the first one worked. Stopping should always be a decision you can afford to make, so nothing here is sold in advance.
Acne and acne scarring
Treated in stages — active acne first, then marks, then texture. Treating scarring while acne is still active is the most common way money gets wasted on skin.
from ₹3,500per sessionPigmentation and melasma
Slow, and we’ll say so at the first appointment. Melasma treated aggressively elsewhere is often worse than melasma left alone. A year-long conversation, not a course.
from ₹4,000per sessionHair loss in women
Roughly a third of cases turn out to be thyroid, ferritin, or PCOS-related, and resolve when the underlying cause is treated.
₹2,500consultation, tests extraLaser and light
Fractional and Q-switched, priced per session. A test patch on every new patient, in every season, without exception.
from ₹6,000per sessionMoles and full skin checks
Full-body examination with dermoscopy. Anything suspicious is photographed, measured, and re-checked in three months — or excised and biopsied that week.
₹3,000full skin checkRanges reflect the treatment chosen, not your willingness to pay. Itemised receipts are issued for everything and accepted by most insurers for reimbursement; purely cosmetic treatment usually isn’t covered.
The doctor
One dermatologist. Every appointment.
Dr. Ira Menon has practised dermatology for nineteen years, eleven of them in this room. The clinic is deliberately small — a single consulting room, one doctor, and a cap on how many patients are seen in a day.
It means appointments run to time and nobody is seen by an assistant. It also means the waiting list is real; ask about cancellations rather than the calendar.
Dr. Ira MenonMD Dermatology
- Degree
- MBBS, a leading government medical college
- Post-graduate
- MD Dermatology, a leading national institute
- Fellowship
- Pigmentary disorders
- In practice
- 19 years
- Published on
- Melasma in Indian skin
Questions
Worth knowing before you book.
Why don’t you offer packages?
Because nobody knows at session one whether six will be needed. Selling six upfront makes the clinic’s income depend on a decision taken before the evidence exists, and that’s a bad incentive to build into a practice.
What if the answer is that nothing needs treating?
Then you’ve paid ₹2,500 and learned that your skin is fine. It’s a real outcome and not a rare one — particularly for people who arrive having been sold four treatments somewhere else.
I’m already mid-treatment elsewhere. Should I still come?
Yes, and bring whatever you’re using. A review of an existing plan is usually more useful than starting again — and a second opinion that saves you a course of something unnecessary is the cheapest thing this clinic does.
Do you do treatments on the first visit?
No, except where something needs urgent attention. A diagnosis made in eight minutes on a first meeting is wrong often enough that the treatments which follow it are the expensive ones.
How long before I see a difference?
Acne responds in six to eight weeks. Pigmentation takes three months before it’s fair to judge, and often longer. Anything promising a visible change in a fortnight is describing inflammation, not the condition.
Visit
Finding the clinic.
Second floor, Sagar BuildingTurner Road, Bandra West, Mumbai 400050. Above the chemist on the corner, opposite the old Bandra Talkies site. Lift to the second floor; the clinic is the door on the left.
WhatsApp the clinic- Tuesday – Friday10.00 – 7.00
- Saturday10.00 – 3.00
- SundayClosed
- MondayClosed
By appointment only. The cancellation list moves faster than the calendar does — ask to be added to it.