Face Surgery Turkey

Plenty of people enquiring about face surgery in Turkey arrive with a list. A nose, maybe the eyelids, possibly something under the chin. By the time we've looked at their photos, the list is usually shorter. That isn't modesty on our part. It's that one well-chosen operation often fixes what three guessed-at ones wouldn't.

This page leads to nine face operations. Each has a guide of its own and a price of its own, and our full list runs to twenty-two face items. None of them is a bundle. This page is about choosing between them.

Nine operations, nine prices

Here's what each one costs on its own. Rhinoplasty is €3,000. A facelift is €5,000, and a neck lift €4,000. Eyelid surgery starts at €2,400 for two lids. A brow lift comes in at €2,300, matching a lip lift. The fox eye lift costs €3,400. For chin surgery an implant is €4,200, and ear surgery starts at €2,200.

Each guide goes into far more detail. What follows here is the thinking that comes before any of them.

The lift ladder

The facelift tops our face price list, and honestly, it's also the one we most often steer people away from. That's because several smaller lifts sit below it, each fixing one specific thing.

Think of it as a ladder. At the bottom sits the brow lift, €2,300, for the brow alone. A step up, a forehead lift at €2,800 adds loose forehead skin. A mid-face lift at €3,600 treats cheeks that have slid down and the folds beside the nose. Next comes the neck lift, €4,000, for the neck's muscle, fat and skin. Only at the top does a facelift with temple lift, at €5,000, take on the jawline and lower face properly. Most people need one rung, not the whole ladder.

Four pairs that look the same in a photo

A lot of wrong plans start with two problems that photograph identically. A hooded upper lid can be extra lid skin or a dropped brow. A soft jawline can be a short chin, a pad of fat or loose skin. Hollow cheeks might be lost volume or tissue that has moved down. A wide lower face can be bone or cheek fat.

Each pair needs a different operation, and only an examination tells them apart. When we say "we'd like to see you before deciding", this is why.

The nose

Rhinoplasty has more guides than anything else here, six in all, but on our list it's one price. A first operation is €3,000, whichever technique is used and whoever the patient is, with any septum and breathing work included. Only a nose that needs cartilage from the ear or rib moves to €4,000, which covers most revision and some ethnic cases.

Eyes and brows

This is where small operations change a face most. Upper or lower lids are €2,400 a pair; all four, €2,900. Brow and temple lifts are €2,300 each. Quite often the "tired eyes" turn out to be a dropped brow, or the other way round, which is why both guides open with a simple way to tell.

Chin, jaw and neck

Here it comes down to bone, fat or skin. A short chin needs projection, either an implant at €4,200 or genioplasty, which moves the bone and is priced after a scan. Fat under the chin calls for chin liposuction, €2,500 on our list. Loose skin and neck bands need a neck lift. Very often the photo suggests one and the examination finds another.

Cheeks and midface

Two operations here do almost opposite things. Cheekbone augmentation adds width, €3,000 using a silicone implant, while €5,000 applies if the bone itself is reshaped. A bichectomy, which removes some of the fat pad inside the cheek, makes the lower face slimmer and costs €2,200. Fat grafting to the face, at €2,500, restores volume that has gone. Picking the wrong one makes a face look worse, not better.

Lips and ears

These are the two smallest operations we do. A lip lift, €2,300, is done without a hospital night, and the whole trip is only three nights. Ear surgery is €2,300 under general anaesthetic or €2,200 under local, and it's the only operation on this page we regularly do for children.

Face surgery for men

More men come to us than people expect, usually about one thing: a crooked nose, a weak chin, heavy lids or a neck that's softening. They want to look rested, not altered. So the plans stay understated, with scars placed around the beard and hairline, and nothing lifted into a feminine shape. Look out for the men's sections in the individual guides.

Age and face surgery

Different operations tend to suit different decades. Rhinoplasty and ear surgery are often done young, ear surgery sometimes in childhood. By the forties, eyelids and brows are the usual question. The neck and lower face tend to follow a decade or so later, when both skin and the tissue underneath have given way. Age alone never decides it, though. Some people in their thirties have a clear structural problem; plenty in their sixties need much less than they expect.

Why choose face surgery in Turkey?

Cost is part of it, but it shouldn't be the main reason. Natural Clinic has treated more than 100,000 patients from over 80 countries, and the face surgeons here work across every operation on this page, which means the advice isn't limited to whatever one surgeon happens to do. Ask any clinic, here or at home, whether they can offer all the options before they recommend one.

The combination discount, and why to question it

Every one of our twenty-two face items carries a combination discount when it's paired with another. That's convenient, and it saves money. It's also, unavoidably, a reason for a clinic to suggest more than you need, since every extra procedure adds to the bill.

When two operations are put forward for one trip, by us or anyone else, it's worth asking what links them. A good answer is about the surgery itself: the same area being opened, or two parts of the face needing to settle together. "While you're here" isn't a reason.

When the right answer isn't an operation

A slightly heavy brow, fine lines, rough skin and the first signs of volume loss often respond better to non-surgical treatments. There's little point operating on someone in their early thirties who'll need the operation done properly at fifty. We'd rather say so and see you later, if ever.

Where the scars go

Most face operations have somewhere to hide the scar. It might be inside the nostril, in the crease of the upper lid, behind the ear or along the hairline. A few don't. Lip lifts are one exception, with a fine line right under the nose. Open rhinoplasty is another, marking the little strip between the nostrils. Each guide shows exactly where yours would be.

Recovery, roughly

Face operations fall into four speeds. Eyelid surgery, a lip lift and ear surgery look presentable in about a week and can be judged at around three months. A brow lift, fox eye lift or chin surgery needs ten days to two weeks to look presentable, and about four months to judge. A neck lift or facelift takes around two weeks and about six months. Rhinoplasty looks presentable in ten days to two weeks, but the tip keeps changing for a year.

The general risks

Some risks apply to almost any face operation. Bleeding, infection and slow wound healing are all made worse by smoking. Asymmetry is always possible, since no face is symmetrical to begin with. Altered sensation is common but usually temporary, and nerve injury is uncommon. Each guide covers the risks specific to that operation.

How long you'll stay in Istanbul

How long you stay depends on what you're having. Lip lifts need three nights and no hospital bed. For chin surgery, expect a short hospital stay and five nights or so. Eyelid surgery and neck lifts usually mean part of a night on the ward and close to a week in the city. Bigger operations, or two together, add a bit. Every face surgery in Turkey plan states the nights in writing.

The before and after worth asking for

Our galleries show face surgery before and after results for each operation. The most useful ones to ask for, though, are cases with just a single operation, ideally photographed a full year later. A single-operation before and after shows you what that operation really does on its own, without anything else muddying the picture. If a clinic can only show you combined cases, it's harder to know which part made the difference. When you send your own photos, they become the first half of a before and after we'll keep comparing against at each follow-up.

Comparing face surgery cost in Turkey

For face surgery in Turkey with us, every price listed includes the surgeon, anaesthesia, the hospital stay where needed, transfers and an interpreter, plus video follow-up running for twelve months. When you compare face surgery prices with other clinics, at home or abroad, ask for each operation to be priced separately rather than as one bundle. Itemised quotes make it easy to spot, and drop, anything you don't need. For country-by-country figures, every guide carries its own table comparing facial plastic surgery in Turkey with Britain, Germany and the US.

Removing a distraction

Some changes last for good. A narrowed nose stays narrow, and a chin that has been moved stays put. Lifts are different: they reset where tissue sits but can't stop the face from ageing afterwards. In our experience, face surgery in Istanbul works best when it removes one thing that keeps pulling the eye, instead of trying to make you look like someone new. If you send us photos of what bothers you, we'll tell you which single operation would do that, and whether you need any at all.