I would not recommend facial rejuvenation surgery without agreeing with your partner.

This applies to both male and female candidates.

I want to meet and get to know the spouses of my patients before the operation.

Preferably come to the first interview with your partner.

I recommend my patients who cannot come to the first interview with their spouses to come to the preoperative examination with their spouses.

As a rule, we do not obtain consent/permission from the spouse of any patient, but the participation of spouses in preoperative processes is important.

Of course, the face is yours, the decision is yours. However, we do not want anything that unnecessarily increases your stress before and after surgery. Facial rejuvenation surgeries have their own psychological stress. You will probably need the support of your partner to make this process comfortable.

The biggest reservation of the spouses about the surgery is that the familiar face of their life partner will change a lot and will look like someone else. The social reservations felt by the candidate patient are automatically felt by the spouse.

These concerns are often followed by the question "what is the need"...

No cosmetic surgery is necessary.

What is important in aesthetic surgeries is whether the patient will benefit from the procedure and whether this benefit is worth the time, financial resources and risks of the surgery.

I can tell you whether you will benefit from the procedure, but you and your partner should answer the other questions together.

You should know that my happiest facial rejuvenation patients were always people who already had happy relationships and had a high level of harmony with their spouses. Plastic surgery does not solve relationship problems. If the spouses' interest in each other has decreased, you cannot change this with a plastic surgery application. As a last resort, you should not undergo surgery to save your marriage, and you should not decide on surgery with an ambition that I will show him what he has lost after a relationship that has ended. I do not recommend you to have surgery without your spouse's knowledge, while your spouse is travelling. You should not give your spouse incomplete or misleading information about your surgery. You should not have similar demands from me.

I often advise my patients, especially those who are emotionally vulnerable (recently divorced, cheated, inveterate single), to reconsider their decision to undergo surgery from an ethical point of view. I do not operate on individuals who are not balanced in terms of emotional state. I never want to be a person who turns the emotional weakness of the patient into a commercial gain. For this reason, although it is not my duty at all, I would like to understand whether the patients who say that my spouse does not want me to have surgery are in such an emotional weakness.

If you are in the research phase for facial rejuvenation surgeries, I recommend that you include your partner in this process from the very beginning. Read my blog together, come to the interview together. Your spouse can always reach me to ask questions about "his/her role" in the process. However, you should know that ethically, I cannot transfer information about my patient to third parties without my patient's consent. Your spouse or relatives cannot call me and have a private conversation "about you".

You should share your decision about surgery with the person you share your life with.

Stay with Love,

Stay Beautiful.

O.B.