Results that read as inherited, not injected.
A system is only as credible as the faces it produces. These are unretouched, shown with consent, and each is an individual result. What they have in common is the order they were built in and the moment the session stopped.
BeforeAfter
A full Band Codex plan: read whole, built in order, stopped at harmony. Drag to compare.
Nothing announces itself.
The lateral midface reads as a ledge, not a peak. The lower frame is squared at the corners, not pointed at the centre. The jawline is a shadow that sharpens, not a width that thickens. The apple of the cheek has not grown; the lips have not become the first thing you notice. The face is recognisably the same man, and reads as if it had always been this way.
That is the Believability Stop doing its work: the session ended when the whole face read in harmony, whatever the plan had predicted.
The work.
Labelled by what the photograph shows. Every case is one man, unretouched, with consent. The library the clinic holds is larger than what is shown; these are the cases published on the clinic's own site.
Individual results, unretouched, shown with consent. Results vary. More on drband.com/results.
Dr Bassam Band
A GMC-registered doctor (GMC 7458919, with a licence to practise) specialising in male facial aesthetics. He qualified MB ChB in 2014 after training at St Andrews and Manchester, and holds BSc (Hons) and MRCGP. He is the creator of the Band Codex, the founder of the drBand Clinic at 5 Goodge Place, Fitzrovia, London, and an international trainer of doctors in full-face contouring.
- Almost a decade of male-specialised injecting. Over nine in ten of his patients are men.
- Senior trainer for one of the UK's largest aesthetics academies, alongside his own international teaching and the Band Codex Masterclass.
- Aesthetic Medicine, 2026: named one of the industry title's five male transformation experts to follow, described as the go-to for male patients seeking transformations big or small.
- Guest expert on male aesthetics for Men's Health Week with the Dr Leah clinics, on natural enhancement for men.
- CBAM Congress 2026, Toronto: teaching two practitioner sessions in September 2026, on the architecture of the jawline and on non-surgical nose reshaping.
Built around the male face.
The drBand Clinic in Fitzrovia is a doctor-led practice where every treatment is planned and performed by a doctor and nothing is delegated. The Codex is its operating system: the £100 consultation is the READ, and the full-face Band Codex plan is its signature treatment. The Masterclass is taught inside the working clinic, on live model-day cases, with the same photography, documentation and safety protocols the Codex demands of every patient plan.
Sometimes the right jawline is no jawline. Where laxity or jowling makes the case surgical, filler is the wrong tool, and the plan says so.
Masculinity is calibrated, not maximal.
The Codex's restraint doctrine is not taste. Two lines of evidence underwrite it: the face-preference literature shows that preference for masculine features peaks at a calibrated level rather than at the extreme, and the anatomy literature shows exactly which structures carry the male read, so that each can be respected rather than exaggerated.
The dial has an optimum
Perrett and colleagues (Nature, 1998) showed that when facial masculinity is manipulated, average preferences do not rise monotonically with masculinity; Little, Jones and DeBruine (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2011) reviewed the evidence that masculinity preference is context-dependent and calibrated. The practical consequence is the Codex's visibility ceiling and the honest-no gate: the goal is the best version of his proportions, never the most.
What carries the male read
At textbook level: a more prominent brow and flatter forehead; a cheek apex set lower and more lateral, a ledge rather than a peak; a wider, squarer chin and a more acute gonial angle; a thinner upper lip in proportion; thicker, more vascular skin. Every anti-feminisation restraint in BUILD is one of these read backwards: never central chin lengthening, never cheek height, never an apple that grows on animation, never lips that dominate.
References with full citations are on the sources page.
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