Best full facelift with neck tightening package Turkey

Your package at a glance

What’s included — and what’s not

This outline covers the full facelift and neck tightening named in the provider’s written plan. Other facial procedures are separate unless listed.

Included

Full facelift with neck tightening

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

General anaesthetic.

Hospital stay and post-operative care

One to two hospital nights, as confirmed by the provider.

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 a full facelift with neck tightening package is

This stay combines a full facelift — a rhytidectomy that addresses the cheek and jowl more fully than a mini — with neck tightening in the same anaesthetic. That usually means platysma work and the skin under the chin as named on the paper; it is not a thread lift, not filler, and not a deep-plane conversion unless that paper names one. Isolated platysmaplasty without a face sitting is a different quote. Eyelids sit on another package unless they are written here.

The written offer should confirm the facial and neck techniques included. Who operates belongs on the paper, not in a slogan.

Who this package is for

Surgeons usually consider adults with cheek and jowl descent plus a soft neck angle or platysma bands, who are close to a stable weight, and who will accept scars in the hairline, around the ear and often under the chin. A mini is the wrong sitting if the field already needs a full lift. If the neck band is the only complaint and the midface is still firm, an isolated necklift quote is the conversation. Smoking, when the team has asked you to stop, often pauses the date. Previous face or neck surgery needs saying in the photographs, not at the door of theatre.

Send daylight photographs without make-up — front, both profiles, the neck at rest, and the eyes with the brows not raised. Suitability is confirmed in Istanbul before anyone operates. Fat grafting, a brow lift or blepharoplasty in the same sitting is not assumed in this figure.

What sits outside the quote

A deep-plane conversion, eyelid surgery, fat grafting, brow lift or later revision is outside this full-facelift and neck-tightening scope unless written in the plan. A mask-tight result is not promised. Stretching a full lift into a mask-tight result to chase a photograph 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 combined sitting, the hospital nights, swelling checks, suture or staple removal and clearance to fly. Four hotel nights is too short for a full-lift stay. The hospital stay sits inside those nights; it does not replace them. Leave room for an extra night if the team asks.

Theatre is under general anaesthetic. A full lift with neck work is usually several hours; the expected time sits on the written plan. Discharge is signed by the surgeon — it is not an advertising date.

Recovery after you fly home

Bruising and tightness under the chin and along the jaw show for the first weeks. A chin strap may stay on as shown. Social recovery is often ten to fourteen days if the surgeon is happy. Light desk work often sits in that window. Sleep with the head raised at first if you were shown that. Avoid turning the neck hard, bending, heavy bags and anything that raises blood pressure in the face. Harder exercise waits about four to six weeks, or longer if the discharge note says so. The face and neck keep settling for months. None of that is a years-younger guarantee.

Red flags after you return — spreading redness, pus, a temperature that persists, sudden swelling, pain that is getting worse, or wound edges that part — 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.

Are a facelift and neck lift usually done together?

Yes. A facelift and neck lift are commonly planned together because ageing of the lower face, jawline and neck often overlaps. A facelift can improve jowling and lower-face laxity, while neck surgery may address loose neck skin, platysma bands or tissue beneath the chin. However, the exact operation varies: not every facelift automatically includes a full neck lift or platysmaplasty. The surgeon should define which facial and neck layers will be treated and assess general health, blood pressure, bleeding risk, previous surgery, wound-healing factors and total operating time. If either the facial or neck work is unusually extensive, staging may be considered.

Can a facelift, neck lift and eyelid surgery be combined in one operation?

They can sometimes be combined in one operation in appropriately selected patients who need treatment of the lower face, neck and eyelids. The advantage is that several areas can be addressed during one treatment plan, but adding procedures also increases the length and complexity of surgery. The surgeon should assess the extent of the facelift and neck work, whether upper eyelids, lower eyelids or both need surgery, dry-eye and eyelid-closure risk, blood pressure, bleeding risk, previous facial surgery, general health and total operating time. If the complete facial plan becomes too extensive, the eyelid surgery or another component may be performed separately rather than extending one operation further.

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.

Can a neck lift improve a double chin?

A neck lift may improve under-chin fullness when it comes from excess fat, loose skin or neck muscle banding, but the right plan depends on the cause. The surgeon may address different tissues in the neck; a neck lift cannot guarantee a sharply defined jawline, and fullness caused by another anatomical or medical issue needs separate assessment. The ASPS neck lift guidance includes excess fat under the chin among the concerns a neck lift can treat. Ask the surgeon to explain which tissue your written plan addresses and whether any separate chin or facial procedure is proposed.