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@6098Sophia, welcome to TPF! Glad you have decided against VLif and decide against Braun too while you are at it. I would suggest you ask for a consult with the head surgeon at ASPS as they do smas facelifts there for 11-12 mill won which is about £8k or $10k. It is in Apgujeong between Machimpyo and MVP. I popped in once when I was in my early 50s and they said I did not need it then. I liked their honesty. Of course that was before I had a whopping 5 full facial fat grafts that swelled my face 5 times so needed 8 cms of skin trimmed by a facelift and a smas lift. Here is a link to ASPS smas facelift b&a’s.
http://en.asps.co.kr/sub/wrinkle/sub01.asp A famous tpfer had her smas FL at ASPS and it is going 8 years+ and strong!
I consulted with Dirk Kremer in May 2021 and paid in full. At the time he was £12k for a vertical smas face and neck lift although at the time I did not have any neck concerns. He cancelled when I asked that he use sutures and not staples to close the skin and when I asked for pds sutures and not permanent ones. I was promptly refunded by his PA. It made me realise he was not the surgeon for me as he was more doctor centred rather than a shared patient management type of surgeon. His prices are now much higher as it is 2024.
Nick Rhodes however was the complete opposite and even asked me what sutures I wanted him to use as he respected me as a doctor with surgical experience. And in the end I am glad I went with Nick. He even pointed to the theatre board where the list of suture material was handwritten on the board to make sure he had listened to me. He heard me when I said I had a prolene allergy and reacted to permanent sutures but not to absorbable long acting pds sutures. If you choose Coppergate Clinic which he runs as the head surgeon, your choices are go with Nick but now he charges £15k for a deep plane facelift but I guess you can ask him to do a smas one instead or go with his junior surgeons Chris or James and pay £5,500 for a VR lift. They have a one year free retightening policy but make sure you source postop prednisolone yourself as the clinic still does not prescribe no matter my protestations that top US facelift surgeons Jacono, Karam and Nayak all use either intraop, postop or both. Marando is the only UK facelift surgeon based in Manchester who prescribes prednisolone postop at 30-40
mg a day and he does lateral smasectomies. I can recommend him too based on a lady’s excellent smas lift results at 8 months with steroids postop for a week.
Here is a collage of me on day 0 when I got back to the hotel after the facelift and day 4 when I should be swollen but nothing as I had postop prednisolone for 4 days. Compare this to all the swollen facelifts you see on this site. It makes sense why the face then sags at 4-6 months when fully deswelled. And look at the beautiful stitchwork! Nick rivals Korean plastic surgeons when it comes to skin closure. And not one metal staple in sight!
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