Category: Our View

Many people are quick to judge others who undergo cosmetic surgery as being an active choice purely for vanity. Yet as a Plastic Surgeon we quickly learn not to judge our patients and learn to understand their motivations and reasons for wanting to have parts of their body addressed. There may be many reasons, but […]

If you are thinking about a facelift, it can be bewildering and overwhelming when you start researching your options. You will hear terms such as SMAS, short scar, long scar, full facelift, composite facelift, deep plane, mini-facelift, MACS lifts and many more. To be honest, even plastic surgeons do not universally agree on the terms […]

As a significant part of my private practice is composed of aesthetic breast surgery I decided to launch a parallel website solely devoted to plastic surgery to the breast. This can be found at www.breastplasticsurgeon.net, and I hope by devoting a site purely to breast, breast blogs and breast plastic surgery information, I will be […]

Tummy tucks are still the gold standard operation to reshape the abdomen. But they come at a price, with respect to exchanging the improved tummy shape with a scar. All plastic surgery to an extent is compromise – getting from A to B, but having to accept some sort of drawback – be it a […]

Since being at Purity Bridge, I have widened the scope of facelift techniques I have adopted. This has been one of the many great benefits of working as part of an aesthetic surgical team, where different colleagues can bring in different viewpoints and varying angles to the table. Whilst the workhorse facelift for me remains […]

I hear this when I am out on a regular basis once people find out I’m a plastic surgeon. My reply? “You’re talking about those that have had a bad facelift- you wouldn’t realise those that have had a good one!” In fact, on one occasion I was able to list 3 people known to […]

It has been a little while since I have updated this section of the website, as life continues to be as busy as ever (not something I am complaining about!). Purity Bridge grows from strength to strength, and I feel it was an excellent decision to open a private clinic. The feedback from my patients/clients […]

I am really looking forward to hosting our first GP education evening at the new practice this Thursday evening. I will be giving a presentation that covers skin cancer, scars, wound healing and more – all of which I very much will be of use to those attending. Darryl Coombes, my colleague who is a […]

Lots of work is being done at Purity Bridge finalising the details for the launch event we are having at the end of next week to celebrate our opening. We really wanted to say thank you to everyone who has had a part in getting the clinic off the ground and is continuing to support […]

What is extraordinary about the 6-week consultation? It is that virtually every patient has “forgotten” their old body and how it was pre-surgery. Whether it is a facelift, a breast operation or a tummy tuck, it never ceases to amaze me how quick the human brain is to adopt the new body image as “having […]

Whilst every plastic surgeon should strive for perfection all the time (in fact, that should be a personality trait of a plastic surgeon!), of course, there are times that we get the suboptimal result. This may be because of a post-operative complication, or for some other reason. As a result, every plastic surgeon will have […]

We have now been ensconced in the new clinic (Purity Bridge at Tunbridge Wells Plastic Surgery) since early June, and things are going from strength to strength. After the inevitable teething problems and minor glitches (and I apologise if anyone’s communication with the practice was detrimentally effected) we are feeling much more at home at […]