Best awake full facelift package Turkey

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.

Just Clinic Istanbul coordinates this as the best all-inclusive awake full-lift stay we offer for that approach: the sitting named after assessment, hotel nights around the first dressing checks, transfers, and an English-speaking coordinator. Who operates belongs on the paper, not in a slogan.

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 the all-inclusive stay covers

The EUR figure on this page is one coordinated stay, not a menu you assemble at the desk. Your written quote lists the awake full facelift as planned after assessment, neck work only if that paper names it, the pre-operative examination and blood tests, local anaesthetic with sedation as named, hotel nights with breakfast for the nights we book around the checks, private transfers between the airport, hotel and clinic, an English-speaking coordinator, and the dressings — and a chin strap if the plan names one — fitted before you leave.

Hotel nights are hotel nights after discharge, not a surgical ward. If drains or blood-pressure checks keep you overnight, that stay sits inside the Istanbul window; it is not sold as a “no hospital” slogan. The coordinator stays the same person who wrote back to your first message.

What sits outside the quote

Flights to and from Istanbul are extra unless a contract says otherwise. Extra nights you add yourself, a companion’s room, travel insurance, a deep-plane conversion, a general anaesthetic billed separately, eyelid surgery, fat grafting, a brow lift, and a later revision sit outside this figure unless they are named on the paper. 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 with Just Clinic Istanbul’s experienced team, see our facelift recovery article.