Best awake full facelift package Turkey

Your package at a glance

What’s included — and what’s not

This package covers the awake full facelift named in the written plan. Neck work and any anaesthetic conversion are included only if the provider names them.

Included

Awake full facelift

Hotel accommodation

Accommodation in a private single room during the planned seven-to-ten-night Istanbul stay; exact hotel nights are confirmed in writing. Accommodation is provided in a 4-star or 5-star hotel.

Pre-operative assessment

Pre-operative examination and blood tests.

Anaesthetic plan

Local anaesthetic with sedation as named in the written plan.

Hospital stay and post-operative care

Same-day discharge or an overnight stay if the treating team requires it, with post-operative care.

Post-operative medication

Necessary medication after the procedure, as confirmed by the healthcare provider.

Dressings and chin strap

Dressings; a chin strap only if named in the written plan.

Provider assistance

A dedicated English-speaking Medical Concierge from the healthcare provider throughout your Istanbul stay.

VIP transfers

1. 
   Airport to hotel Transfer from the airport to the hotel.
2. 
   Hotel ↔ hospital for treatment Return transfers between the hotel and hospital for treatment.
3. 
   Hotel ↔ hospital for scheduled checks Return transfers between the hotel and hospital for scheduled checks.
4. 
   Hotel to airport Transfer from the hotel to the airport.

The healthcare provider confirms final inclusions and arrangements in writing. Just Clinic Istanbul is an independent marketing and lead-generation platform; clinical care and support are provided by the healthcare provider.

What an awake full facelift package is

A full facelift — a rhytidectomy of the mid and lower face — repositions cheek and jowl more fully than a mini. The work sits in the SMAS layer under the skin, not a skin-only pull. “Awake” here means local anaesthetic with sedation as named on the written plan: you are not under a general anaesthetic, and this is not a lunch-hour thread lift. It is still a long theatre day. A deep-plane conversion, an isolated necklift, and eyelids in the same sitting are different quotes unless that paper names them. A number of years is not promised at a fixed fee.

The written offer should confirm the awake full-facelift scope, named neck work and anaesthetic plan. Who operates belongs on the paper, not in a slogan. A number of years is not promised at a fixed fee.

Who this package is for

Surgeons usually consider adults with cheek and jowl descent that already needs more than a short mini scar, who can accept cuts in the hairline and around the ear, who can follow a smoke-stop protocol, and who are well enough for a long local-with-sedation sitting. A mini is the wrong quote if the field already needs a full lift. If the team judges that a general anaesthetic is safer, or that a deep-plane release is required, this package is not assumed.

Send daylight photographs without make-up — front, both profiles, a three-quarter turn, and the neck at rest so the jaw and the platysma can be read together. Suitability is confirmed in Istanbul, standing, before anyone operates. Blood pressure, smoking and blood-thinning tablets belong in the history, not as an afterthought at the door.

What sits outside the quote

A deep-plane conversion, general anaesthetic, eyelid surgery, fat grafting, brow lift or later revision is outside the awake full-facelift scope unless written in the plan. The treating team defines the correction; it should not be stretched to match a photograph. Stretching the skin to chase a photograph of another face is refused; that is a clinical limit, not an upsell.

Theatre, anaesthetic and nights in Istanbul

Plan seven to ten nights in the city. That window covers the in-person assessment, the sitting, the first dressing checks, drain removal when drains are used, suture or staple reviews and clearance to fly. A weekend advert does not leave the same medical margin. Four nights is too short. Leave room for an extra night if the team asks.

Theatre is commonly three to five hours under local anaesthetic with sedation as named; adding named neck work lengthens the day. Cuts run in the temple hairline, around the ear and into the posterior scalp. Bruising often peaks on days two to four. Discharge is signed by the surgeon — it is not an advertising date.

Recovery after you fly home

Head up, cold compresses as shown, no gym, no heavy bags, no headset or tight sunglasses on fresh lines. Hair washing follows the protocol so the hairline is not pulled. Numbness in the ears and cheeks is common. Social downtime is usually two to three weeks — longer than the stay. Harder exercise and anything that raises blood pressure in the face wait until the discharge note says so. Scars take six to twelve months to settle. The face keeps changing for months. None of that is a years-younger guarantee.

Red flags after you return — sudden one-sided swelling, spreading redness, pus, a temperature that persists, pain that is getting worse, or breathlessness — mean a local clinician or A&E first, then your coordinator. Take the discharge note with you.

How other patients went through a facelift

To read how other patients went through a facelift in Turkey, see our facelift recovery article.

Questions from you

These notes answer questions people raise before they accept a written treatment plan. They describe what that plan should make clear. They are not a promise that any partner hospital uses a particular technique, device or payment arrangement. With your consent, an enquiry may be shared with an authorised healthcare partner.

How are bleeding, haematoma and nerve injury managed in a face, neck, brow or temple lift?

ASPS lists bleeding and facial-nerve weakness among facelift risks. No single tissue layer is better for everyone. A skin, SMAS or deep-plane operation is a different operation, and the nerve is at risk in a different place in each. The written plan should say which layer will be worked in. Haematoma is the facelift complication that most often means a return to theatre. A 2001–2013 meta-analysis found expanding haematoma in about 1.8% of cases, and the TOPS database in about 1.97%. About 90% of haematomas appear in the first 24 hours. A small collection can distort the contour. A large one can threaten the skin flap and, rarely, the airway. The treatment of a significant collection is to find the bleeding point and evacuate it. Opening stitches to relieve pressure has been described as a temporary step if evacuation is delayed. Uncontrolled blood pressure is a main risk. Cutting the facial nerve is rare. Weakness that continues after the anaesthetic wears off can come from a stitch, tension or cautery heat and may settle over days or weeks. Weakness that does not settle should be reviewed by the team that operated. Sources: ASPS facelift safety, ASJ Open Forum review of early facelift complications.

Where will the incisions be, and how can the scar, hairline, ear shape or symmetry change?

ASPS lists a poor scar, temporary or permanent hair loss at the incision, asymmetry, and a visible distortion at the ends of the incision among facelift risks. Too much tension on the earlobe can pull it forward into what is sometimes called a pixie ear. The written plan should show the incision in the hair-bearing scalp, in front of the ear, behind the lobe and in the hair behind the ear. For the chin, ASPS describes an incision inside the mouth or in the skin under the chin. An intraoral incision leaves no external scar, and infection and contact between the implant and mouth bacteria are discussed separately. A submental incision leaves a short external scar. Millimetre-perfect equality of the two sides cannot be promised. Sources: ASPS facelift safety, ASPS chin surgery.

If vision changes, the eye will not close, the face becomes weak, or a haematoma develops after I go home, what happens and who pays?

The symptoms that need review without delay depend on the operation. After a face, neck, brow or temple lift: rapidly growing swelling on one side, pain, breathlessness or new facial weakness. After eyelid surgery: a lid that will not close, severe pain, an eye being pushed forward, or reduced vision. After facial fat injection: sudden loss of vision. ASPS lists blindness among eyelid-surgery risks, while describing it as very rare. A significant haematoma is treated by evacuation, as described above. Fat in a vessel needs emergency eye assessment. The NHS asks people to settle in writing, before cosmetic surgery abroad, where reviews happen, what further surgery and a return journey cost, and whether the clinic’s insurance covers the patient. Travel insurance usually does not cover surgical complications. Follow-up after an operation in the UK is the surgeon’s responsibility. A clinic abroad may not offer the same follow-up or a doctor in your own country. The NHS uses 7–10 days after facial cosmetic surgery as a planning window before flying, because of clot risk. Your own surgeon gives the personal clearance. This page does not say that any partner pays for admission, revision or the return flight. Sources: NHS advice on cosmetic surgery abroad, ASPS eyelid surgery safety.