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Aesthetic Surgery Results: What each procedure can and cannot change, when the result is actually a result, and how to read a comparison photograph

Every case below shows the treatment and the time point. Patient photographs are added only with each patient’s written consent; until then a case shows a placeholder. After the cases: what each procedure actually changes, how long before there is a result worth judging, and the photographic techniques that make an average outcome look exceptional.

  • What each procedure can change
  • When to judge the result
  • Photographs shown in consultation

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Aesthetic results

Before and after, case by case

Choose a treatment, or browse them all. Where a case has photographs, move across the picture, or drag on a phone, to compare.

81 cases · 27 treatments

Patient photographs are added only with each patient’s written consent. Until then, a case shows a placeholder.

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Arm LiftStandard arm lift
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Arm LiftArm lift after major weight loss
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Arm LiftArm lift with liposuction
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Body Lift After Weight Loss3 months after
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Body Lift After Weight Loss6 months after
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Body Lift After Weight Loss12 months after
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Botox2 weeks after
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Botox3 months after
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Botox6 months after
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Brazilian Butt Lift3 months after
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Brazilian Butt Lift6 months after
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Brazilian Butt Lift12 months after
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Breast Augmentation3 months after
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Breast Augmentation6 months after
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Breast Augmentation12 months after
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Breast Implant Revision3 months after
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Breast Implant Revision6 months after
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Breast Implant Revision12 months after
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Breast Lift3 months after
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Breast Lift6 months after
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Breast Lift12 months after
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Breast Reduction3 months after
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Breast Reduction6 months after
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Breast Reduction12 months after
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Brow Lift3 months after
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Brow Lift6 months after
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Brow Lift12 months after
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Chin & Jawline Contouring3 months after
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Chin & Jawline Contouring6 months after
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Chin & Jawline Contouring12 months after
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Deep Plane FaceliftDeep plane facelift
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Deep Plane FaceliftDeep plane face and neck lift
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Deep Plane FaceliftFacelift with upper and lower eyelid surgery
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Dermal Fillers2 weeks after
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Dermal Fillers3 months after
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Dermal Fillers6 months after
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Ear Surgery (Otoplasty)3 months after
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Ear Surgery (Otoplasty)6 months after
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Ear Surgery (Otoplasty)12 months after
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Endoscopic Mid-Face Lift3 months after
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Endoscopic Mid-Face Lift6 months after
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Endoscopic Mid-Face Lift12 months after
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Eyelid Surgery3 months after
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Eyelid Surgery6 months after
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Eyelid Surgery12 months after
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FaceliftFace and neck lift
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FaceliftMini facelift
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FaceliftFacelift with eyelid surgery
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Fat Transfer3 months after
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Fat Transfer6 months after
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Fat Transfer12 months after
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Gynecomastia Surgery3 months after
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Gynecomastia Surgery6 months after
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Gynecomastia Surgery12 months after
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Lip Lift3 months after
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Lip Lift6 months after
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Lip Lift12 months after
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Mommy MakeoverTummy tuck and breast lift
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Mommy MakeoverTummy tuck, breast lift with implants and liposuction
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Mommy MakeoverMini tummy tuck and breast augmentation
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PRP Skin Rejuvenation2 weeks after
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PRP Skin Rejuvenation3 months after
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PRP Skin Rejuvenation6 months after
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RhinoplastyHump reduction and tip refinement
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RhinoplastySeptorhinoplasty
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RhinoplastyRevision rhinoplasty
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Skin Boosters2 weeks after
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Skin Boosters3 months after
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Skin Boosters6 months after
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Thigh LiftInner thigh lift
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Thigh LiftThigh lift after major weight loss
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Thigh LiftThigh lift with liposuction
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Thread Lift2 weeks after
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Thread Lift3 months after
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Thread Lift6 months after
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Tummy TuckFull tummy tuck with muscle repair
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Tummy TuckMini tummy tuck
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Tummy TuckTummy tuck with liposuction
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Vaser LiposuctionVaser liposuction of the abdomen and flanks
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Vaser LiposuctionVaser 360° liposuction
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Vaser LiposuctionHigh-definition Vaser liposuction

What each procedure actually changes

Written as what will and will not be different, because the gap between those two is where disappointment lives.

Rhinoplasty

  • Changes: dorsal hump, tip projection and rotation, nostril width, deviation, and breathing where a septal correction is included.
  • Does not change: your underlying facial proportions, skin thickness, or how your nose photographs from every angle. Thick skin limits definition permanently, and no technique overcomes it.
  • Timeline: presentable at 2–3 weeks, 80% at month three, final at 12–18 months. Tip refinement is the last thing to appear.

Facelift and neck lift

  • Changes: jawline definition, jowling, neck laxity and the mid-face in a deep plane procedure. Most people are told they look rested rather than operated on.
  • Does not change: skin quality, texture, pigmentation or fine lines. A facelift repositions tissue; it does not resurface skin, and expecting it to is the commonest mismatch in facial surgery.
  • Timeline: presentable at 2–3 weeks, convincing at 6–8 weeks, final at 6–12 months with scars maturing over 18.

Breast surgery

  • Changes: volume with augmentation, position with a lift, size and symptoms with a reduction. A lift and an implant do different things and are frequently confused.
  • Does not change: skin quality, stretch marks, or the fact that implants are not lifetime devices. Augmentation alone will not lift a breast that has descended.
  • Timeline: implants sit high for 6–12 weeks and drop into position over 3–6 months. Final shape at 6–9 months.

Body contouring

  • Changes: contour, skin excess, muscle separation after pregnancy, and localised fat that does not respond to training.
  • Does not change: your weight in any meaningful way, cellulite, or skin quality. It is a contouring operation, not a weight-loss one, and a result lasts only as long as weight is stable.
  • Timeline: swelling masks the result for 6–8 weeks, 80% at month three, final at 6–12 months.

Non-surgical treatment

  • Changes: dynamic lines with toxin, volume with filler, hydration and texture with boosters — all temporarily.
  • Does not change: laxity. Filler used to compensate for sagging is why some faces look heavy rather than younger, and it is the most common error in this category.
  • Timeline: toxin at days 3–14 lasting 3–4 months; filler immediate, settling over 2 weeks, lasting 6–18 months.

When a result is actually a result

Almost all unnecessary distress after aesthetic surgery comes from assessing an outcome that does not exist yet.

Timeline to a judgeable result
Rhinoplasty Week 2 (cast and bruising) Month 6 12–18 months
Deep plane facelift Week 3 Month 3 6–12 months
Eyelid surgery Week 2 Month 2 4–6 months
Breast augmentation Week 6 (implants sit high) Month 4 6–9 months
Breast lift or reduction Week 6 Month 4 9–12 months
Treatment Week 8 Month 4 6–12 months
Liposuction Week 8 Month 3 6 months
BBL Month 3 (volume settles) Month 4 6–9 months

Normal things that worry people

  • Asymmetry in the early weeks. Sides swell and settle at different rates and almost always converge.
  • Numbness around incisions, improving over months rather than weeks.
  • A result that looks overdone at week two. Swelling exaggerates everything, particularly in the face.
  • Firm, raised scars at 6–12 weeks. Scars get worse before they get better and mature over 12–18 months.
  • Feeling low around day five to ten. Common, passes, still worth mentioning.

How to read a before-and-after photograph

None of the following is faking. All of it is routine, and all of it moves an apparent result more than you would expect.

What changes between the two photographs

  • Lighting. Flat frontal light erases the shadows that read as ageing. The same face under overhead light looks ten years older.
  • Posture. Chin forward and down in the "before", level and slightly up in the "after", changes jawline and neck entirely.
  • Camera distance. Closer exaggerates the nose and flattens the face; a step back does the opposite. Many nose "results" are partly focal length.
  • Weight. A body "after" taken five kilograms lighter is showing you two interventions and crediting one.
  • Makeup, tan, hair and clothing. Rarely matched, and each one moves the comparison.
  • Expression. A neutral "before" against a slight smile in the "after" changes the entire mid-face.

What a trustworthy comparison has

  1. 1Identical lighting, distance, lens, background and expression.
  2. 2No makeup in either, or the same in both.
  3. 3A stated time point, and ideally a series rather than a single pair.
  4. 4Multiple angles — profile and three-quarter for faces, several for bodies.
  5. 5Weight stated for body surgery.
  6. 6At least one case the surgeon describes as average rather than their best.

How to see our patients’ results

In your consultation, matched to your anatomy, under the consent the patients actually gave.

  1. 1Start a free consultation. The surgeon assesses your anatomy, skin quality and what you are asking for.
  2. 2Ask for results from patients who started where you are — skin thickness for a rhinoplasty, degree of laxity for a facelift, tissue coverage for an augmentation.
  3. 3Ask which cases the surgeon considers typical, and to see one that disappointed them.
  4. 4Ask for matched time points: month three and month twelve of the same patient, rather than the best month of several.
  5. 5Ask to speak to a former patient. Where someone has agreed, we arrange it, and nobody is paid or discounted for doing it.

We will not email you a gallery instead. The patients in those photographs consented to being shown in a clinical consultation, not to their images circulating as a file, and that consent is the reason the photographs exist.

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  1. 1Share your detailsFill in the form in under a minute.
  2. 2Send your photosYour coordinator tells you which photos we need, via WhatsApp or email.
  3. 3Receive your planA specialist reviews your case and you get a written, all-inclusive quote.
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FAQ

Aesthetic results: frequently asked questions

Advertising rules for cosmetic procedures restrict before-and-after photographs in several countries our patients live in, and Turkish health advertising regulation restricts them here. Patient photographs are added only with each patient’s specific written consent and where the rules allow; until then each case shows a placeholder, labelled “Photos coming soon”. We also show consented photographs privately in consultation, matched to your anatomy.

Yes — during the free consultation, before any deposit. They are chosen to match your starting point rather than to impress, which makes them more useful anyway.

Rhinoplasty 12–18 months, facelift 6–12, breast surgery 6–9, body contouring 6–12. Judging any of them at six weeks is judging swelling.

No. It repositions tissue and tightens laxity; it does not change texture, pigmentation or fine lines. Expecting resurfacing from a lift is the most common mismatch in facial surgery.

Not meaningfully. An implant adds volume; a lift changes position. If the breast has descended, augmentation alone will make it heavier rather than higher.

No. It is a contouring operation, not a weight-loss one, and the result lasts only as long as your weight is stable. Anyone selling it as weight loss is misleading you.

Swelling exaggerates everything, particularly in the face. It is the single commonest reason people panic early, and it almost always settles into something far more subtle.

Usually not in the early weeks — sides swell and settle at different rates and almost always converge. If it persists past month four, send photographs and the surgeon will review it.

Identical lighting, distance, lens and expression; no makeup in either or the same in both; a stated time point; multiple angles; weight stated for body surgery; and at least one average case shown.

No. They fade and flatten over 12–18 months but remain. What a good surgeon controls is placement, not absence, and any page implying otherwise is selling.

Yes, and it is genuinely useful — it shows the surgeon what you are asking for. What it cannot do is transfer someone else’s anatomy onto yours.

Where a former patient has agreed, yes, and we will put you in touch. Nobody is paid, discounted or incentivised for speaking to you.

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