How to go from 50+ to looking 20+ with plastic surgery rejuvenation.

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moomoomui said:
So would you say Dr. Rhodes is the Dr to go to as long as you come prepares with steroids?
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Hi @moomoomui, yes absolutely but only with steroids. He now charges £3995 which is like $4500 as the pound is at its lowest in 37 years against the US dollar. The challenge is getting a consult. His first available f2f free consult is in January but once seen surgery can be booked within the month. It is not like Korea where you can get same day walk in consultations and surgery next day. But keep calling for any last minute cancellations. That's how I got my consultation and surgery earlier.

Two sisters are having facelifts this month, one is a friend and getting a free revision with Nick (rrp £3995 or $4,500). She too learned the hard way and has now sourced steroids elsewhere and will take 30 mg a day for the first week postop and her younger sister (@angela.transformation on instagram) won the Bray competition for a free full face makeover including facelift (rrp £42,000 or $47,000), brow lift, bleph etc. who will also be prescribed steroids by Bray but at doses too low in my opinion to be as effective. Bray is operating on her tomorrow vs Nick is operating on her older sister next Tuesday. I am excited to see the results of the sister experiment! My vote is for Nick to win.
 
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@MissOrange , This is from Jag Chana's site. I am not sure I want this sort of deep plane facelift. Yes, she has improved a lot. But, there is still a hint of a lax jawline. He also said no skin needs to be removed for me. I was holding up my jawline and I am wondering where all that skin will go if he does not remove skin. Am I being unrealistic?

I have not chosen yet which surgeon to use. I feel I should do it in parts. Lipo first. Eyes, and then finally FL. This way, at every juncture, the different specialists can see what to do.

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Hi @MissOrange, greetings to you. I just had a full face fat transfer on Monday. Was told that maximum of 50cc pure fat was harvested from each inner thigh. I'm 38 this year, 149cm and weight 47kg. Now I am so anxious that if 50cc pure fat from each thigh may create any irregularity later (I did not do much research on lipo before procedure). My thighs are slightly swollen but they are not painful. I am in my compression garment 24/7 since day 1 post op. I wonder based on your experience, if 50cc fat harvested from each inner thigh is too much?

Thank you!
 
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MissOrange said:
For any aging ladies out there losing hope, know that you too can become young and beautiful again by following my detailed journey and steps. I found a very old photo of me taken in Feb 2016 in Korea before I started my rejuvenation journey. I looked very old with hollow eyelids, flared nostrils, bony forehead, deep nasolabials and marionettes and a wide square jaw, although not unusual for a 49 yo lady. I am amazed when I look at myself now and see a young girl (without makeup) and slightly older but still young (with makeup). I never thought I could actually look pretty again (last time I looked pretty was age 24) but thanks to Dr Hyo Seok Seo (Korea), Dr Lucian Ion (UK), Dr Caroline Mills (UK) and Dr Nick Rhodes (UK), I have managed this too. It was a joint effort between 4 board certified plastic surgeons. I hope it lasts now that I have addressed and reversed all the signs of facial aging. I visit my Korean Uncle in LA next month. Last time he saw me I looked like the old face on the left. He will be shocked and not recognise me when I show up looking like the new face on the right!

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Dear Miss, your transformation is breathtaking. You have thanked your surgeons [Dr Hyo Seok Seo (Korea), Dr Lucian Ion (UK), Dr Caroline Mills (UK) and Dr Nick Rhodes (UK)] in your post. Can you please let me know who did what? It will be a great help. Thank You xoxo
 
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T0KKI said:
Hi MissOrange,
I've been following some of your posts and comments as you offer such great advice and recommendations. I'm going to Korea to have revisional surgeries and other corrections in October. My main hospital I am thinking of going to is DA PS. Have you heard of any ghost shadow doctors at that hospital? Is this a hospital that is on the "safe list"?
Thanks in advance :smile:
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Hi @tokki, I have been to DA clinic also called DAPRS three times for facial fat grafting. They are very expensive. I may have had a shadow doctor as 2 out of the 3 times my face ended up looking awful. They do not supply leg bandages for the extensive bruising from the lipo sites to get fat for the face. The third time they tried to overcharge me 5 times what was agreed. I heard a male screaming in agony in a postop private room. The consent form describes their general anaesthesia as horrible. I almost died from their GA when I awoke unable to breathe out the noxious gas. No, I would not recommend this clinic. It has too many doctors and is only interested in money. They are also not ethical in my opinion as I recall looking in a mirror in their consult room thinking maybe I do not need another top up. They should have said no you do not need but went ahead with a full face top up.
 
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worrywart99 said:
Hi @MissOrange, greetings to you. I just had a full face fat transfer on Monday. Was told that maximum of 50cc pure fat was harvested from each inner thigh. I'm 38 this year, 149cm and weight 47kg. Now I am so anxious that if 50cc pure fat from each thigh may create any irregularity later (I did not do much research on lipo before procedure). My thighs are slightly swollen but they are not painful. I am in my compression garment 24/7 since day 1 post op. I wonder based on your experience, if 50cc fat harvested from each inner thigh is too much?

Thank you!
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Hi @worrywart99, as long as they took the same amount from each thigh and you wear the compression 24/7 until your thighs are healed, you should be fine. My problem was when DA clinic only took from my left side which has less fat than my right so it left a deep indentation deformity.
 
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JLeeLee91 said:
Do you also recommend steroids for after facial contouring with lipo? I am 40 with mild sagging in the jowl area, but not too bad.

And what steroids should I ask for/ which do you recommend?

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Hi @JLeeLee91 yes absolutely especially as you already have mild sagging. Bone contouring will remove bone so less bony support for the face. The soft tissues will fall. Ask a physician to prescribe prednisolone 30 mg a day for the first week. If too much bone is removed or too many tissue adhesions or ligaments cut or too much fat liposuctioned from the face, you may need a facelift to remove excess loose skin and lift up the fallen soft tissues and smas muscle.
 
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An update on the sister experiment...deep plane pro bono facelift and necklift (rrp approx £42k) with Bray vs smas plication with my surgeon Nick Rhodes whose facelifts start at £3995 and FL/NL at £9k. The younger sister has now had her pro bono surgery with Dr Bray (see pic) and next week her older sis goes back under the knife with Dr Rhodes but this time will take postop steroids. Who will have the better result? Dr Bray does not operate in London as suggested by his post but his clinic is outside London in Kent so his prices are not high due to "London" prices. London prices are £12-16k for a smas or deep plane FL/NL.

Do not instinctively go for the most expensive surgeon but find real past patients, follow their results for 6 months to a year and preferably find videos. Try to find their results posted by themselves and not the clinic which may use flattering lighting, staging etc.

At 8 months now and my moles tell me my face is still lifted! £3495 beats £42,000 any day. Imagine paying up to $120,000 on a facelift in the US! The world has gone topsy turvy making plastic surgeons multi millionaires on a procedure that can be done for £4-9k in York, UK or 6.5-9 million won ($6-8.5k) in Seoul, Korea.

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MissOrange said:
Hi @JLeeLee91 yes absolutely especially as you already have mild sagging. Bone contouring will remove bone so less bony support for the face. The soft tissues will fall. Ask a physician to prescribe prednisolone 30 mg a day for the first week. If too much bone is removed or too many tissue adhesions or ligaments cut or too much fat liposuctioned from the face, you may need a facelift to remove excess loose skin and lift up the fallen soft tissues and smas muscle.
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Thanks a million!
 
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shruthi said:
Dear Miss, your transformation is breathtaking. You have thanked your surgeons [Dr Hyo Seok Seo (Korea), Dr Lucian Ion (UK), Dr Caroline Mills (UK) and Dr Nick Rhodes (UK)] in your post. Can you please let me know who did what? It will be a great help. Thank You xoxo
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Hi @shruthi, Dr Hyo Seok Seo did my eyelid fat graft and revision DES with ptosis correction and my full face fat graft with top ups. Dr Lucian Ion did my rib rhinoplasty to add height and projection and raise the tip and also shaved my chin bone as my chin was too pointy and strong. I know Korean ladies would die for a V line with a pointy strong chin! lol. Dr Caroline Mills did my dramatic bullhorn lip lift with lip eversion. Dr Nick Rhodes did my facelift. But if you get a facelift only do with postop steroids to stop any facial skin stretch from swelling. And for my body transformation, Dr David Floyd gets my praise for my breast fat transfer and lower body liposculpture. Hope this helps. x
 
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