Category: Our View

I am thrilled and honoured to have been nominated for the prestigious Safety in Beauty Diamond Awards, in the category of Plastic Surgeon of The Year. I am very grateful to whoever nominated me (and am very curious to know!) and feel privileged to be amongst other highly respected colleagues on the shortlist. Safety in […]

In my experience I can broadly divide my patients into two groups based on their expectations for any form of plastic surgery – from a facelift through to breast surgery or body contouring surgery. The first group (Group 1) have an understanding and appreciation of their starting point and how their face, breasts or body […]

As part of everyone’s research (or virtually everyone), prior to seeing me for a consultation, they will have inevitably been on the Internet looking at before and after images. These may be from my personal gallery on my website (www.beforeandafterimages.co.uk) but it is also likely they will have looked at many other examples far and […]

I am continually delighted by the positive feedback and great results achievable with an upper lip lift. Yet, despite the success of the procedure, it is still not widely known about. People will often recognise what they are unhappy about or self-conscious about regarding their facial proportions, but will be unlikely to be aware of […]

As a plastic surgeon, good communication with my patients is vital at all times. This is particularly important in the pre-operative consultation process, to ensure that my patient and I are on the same wavelength, and that I ensure I am able to explain the realistic outcomes of a procedure. After all, managing expectations is […]

It is interesting how times change – in the past, whether or not someone had had Botox was discussed in hushed tones between close friends. Nowadays, where you go for your Botox is openly talked about without any concern. However, quite rightly, there remains a worry (particular for first timers), that muscle relaxing injections can […]

“How do you feel you look?” is a question I like to pose to people who come to see me to discuss facial rejuvenation. Whether they are in their 30s or 70s, the same question applies to all, and the answers they give are key. Whether they say the look tired, sad, ageing, angry or […]

My team are often asked why there is such range of prices for “a facelift” – from around £6000 to over double this price. Surely all facelifts are the same procedure? Actually…no! Even amongst plastic surgeons, there is a huge range of techniques performed, each being referred to as “a facelift”. These can range from […]

I was honoured to be invited to be on the faculty of the prestigious annual meeting held in Hamburg, Germany with the theme of: Shaping the Beautiful Breast in Complex Breast Surgery. The team certainly made me work hard whilst I was there, with several presentations, panel discussions and moderating the closing session – which […]

I am indebted to one of my patients who recently sent me an honest and personal account of her experience of a local anaesthetic MACS facelift… My 50th birthday didn’t upset me as much as I thought it would. I looked reasonably good for my age, and as people usually thought me as being younger […]

I recently had to undergo surgery myself, an old skiing injury came back to haunt me having previously undergone a ligament reconstruction twelve years ago in my right knee. I had to have an arthroscopy to sort out some badly torn cartilage in my knee which was starting to become painful and limit my sporting […]

In my clinic last week I saw yet another patient who had been referred with complications that arose from cosmetic surgery performed in Eastern Europe. We are seeing an ever-increasing number of patients who have gone abroad for surgery, on cost grounds, only to end up with significant problems. The cosmetic clinics abroad are the […]