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title: "Facelift"
url: https://drturner.com.au/locations/brisbane/facelift/
date: 2026-07-19
modified: 2026-07-25
author: "Dr Scott J Turner"
description: "For Brisbane patients researching facelift surgery, the first challenge is not finding a facelift surgeon. It is working out which operation you are actually researching. \"Facelift\" covers several distinct procedures..."
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# Facelift

For Brisbane patients researching facelift surgery, the first challenge is not finding a facelift surgeon. It is working out which operation you are actually researching. "Facelift" covers several distinct procedures — deep plane facelift, SMAS facelift, short scar facelift, vertical restore facelift, endoscopic ponytail facelift — and each addresses a different pattern of facial ageing, works at a different anatomical layer, carries a different recovery, and sits in a different cost range. Facial ageing itself is not one process: skin, fat compartments, the SMAS layer, retaining ligaments and the neck each change in their own way, which is why no single technique suits every face and why every patient requires an individual surgical plan rather than a standard operation.

Dr Scott J Turner is a Specialist Plastic Surgeon (FRACS) whose practice is concentrated on facial aesthetic surgery, consulting in Brisbane at Herstellen Clinic in Spring Hill. This page is written as a complete facelift resource for Brisbane patients: what modern facelift surgery involves, how facial ageing actually works, how the techniques differ, how facelift compares with neck lift, brow lift and eyelid surgery, published cost ranges, recovery, and risks.