Before you decide
Choosing a plastic surgeon in Sydney
How to verify FRACS training, AHPRA specialist registration and hospital admitting rights, the questions worth asking at consultation, and the warning signs to look out for.
Dr Scott J Turner, Specialist Plastic Surgeon (FRACS)
Qualifications, specialist training pathway, hospital appointments, and how to confirm AHPRA registration independently.
Risks and complications of cosmetic surgery
General surgical risks, the factors that raise or lower individual risk, procedure-specific risks, and what to do if something isn’t right after surgery.
Costs and planning
Plastic surgery prices
Indicative all-inclusive pricing across procedures, what a written quote covers, where Medicare and private health may apply, and payment terms.
Travelling for surgery
The pathway for interstate and international patients, including consultation timing, surgery and the recommended recovery stay.
Photo assessment
Preliminary written guidance before booking. This is not a clinical consultation and does not replace an in-person assessment or the GP referral requirement.
Where Dr Turner consults
Sydney
Consulting rooms, hospital affiliations, surgical facilities and what a Sydney consultation involves.
Bondi Junction clinic — Eastern Suburbs and Sydney CBD
Manly clinic — Northern Beaches and lower North Shore
Brisbane
Consulting location, facility details and the pathway for Queensland and Northern NSW patients.
Canberra
Consulting location and the pathway for patients in the ACT, Queanbeyan and southern NSW.
Recovery and non-surgical care
Xen LED light therapy
How LED light therapy is used at the Manly clinic to support recovery after facial surgery.
Medispa
Non-surgical skin and recovery treatments. These do not replace surgical procedures and are discussed as part of an individual care plan.
Keep reading
Articles and patient information
Procedure explanations, recovery guidance and preparation for consultation.
Procedure pages sit under facelift and facial surgery, rhinoplasty, eyelid and brow surgery, breast and body surgery and male procedures.
