Last fact-checked: 5 October 2020

Fed up of constantly looking tired and fatigued and being told that you need a good night’s rest? An eyebrow lift in Phuket may be just the answer, especially if you're looking to combine affordable cosmetic surgery with a holiday. 

What Is an Eyebrow Lift?

With age, you may find that:

• Eyebrows tend to lose their natural arch, becoming more horizontal and changing the way you look.
• Wrinkles and furrows on the forehead and near the brows make you look older.
• Excess or sagging skin around the eyes also adds to the ageing look.

An eyebrow lift, also called browplasty, is designed to make you look more youthful and eliminate wrinkles. Your eyes will look more open, make-up becomes easier to apply and you won’t look constantly stressed and worried.

A browplasty can help tighten and smoothen the top half of your face from your forehead to your eyes, immediately bestowing a more youthful appearance.

As you have to pay for cosmetic surgical procedures out of your own pocket, it is often much more cost-effective to go abroad, with all kinds of cosmetic surgery costing less in Thailand than in places like Australia and the UK.

The medical facilities in Phuket are excellent and the hospital staff English speaking and highly qualified. They are likely to be members of international organizations such as the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. 

Phuket is highly accessible as most major airlines fly there. Undergoing a cosmetic procedure at an attractive tourist destination that has great weather enables you to combine a trip abroad with plastic surgery at an affordable price.

Plus, as this is Thailand, your hotel stay, local transport and food will not burn a hole in your pocket.

A simple internet search will yield many clinics and institutes in Phuket that offer a wide range of cosmetic procedures, minor and major. However, it can well be a shot in the dark because each place seems to be very good, but you really have no idea of the veracity or otherwise of its claims.

Medical Departures provides a free and reliable source of information about all of the top cosmetic clinics around the world, with Phuket being no exception. 

We carry out background checks, investigations and even conduct patient interviews. We ensure that we deal with well-qualified doctors and clinics with the best facilities. It is only when we feel comfortable with the place that we recommend it.

For different results, there are varied techniques used for an eyebrow lift. You can opt for:

-Non-endoscopic brow lift – requiring minimal incisions, this is similar to the endoscopic lift, but is an open procedure that allows for less medial brow elevation that prevents the ‘surprised’ look that some browlifts give.

-Coronal brow lift – this involves a long incision made from ear to ear. While this is an older procedure it may be more effective for patients with heavy wrinkling and the results also last longer.

-Endoscopic brow lift – small incisions are made behind the hairline and a camera is used to help carry out the surgery, which is minimally invasive.

-Transblepheroplastic brow lift – this process uses an upper eyelid incision using an Endotine TransBleph device to keep the skin in place. It takes six months to dissolve and healing is much faster. 

Your surgeon can advise you as to what is best for you, depending on your age, your appearance, the condition of your skin and wrinkles and also what you want to achieve. Whichever kind of procedure is advised you can be assured that there will be no visible scars.

The doctor will either use local anaesthesia or general anaesthesia and the surgery will typically take between one and two hours; the whole process will be over within three hours. You may need to stay overnight if required.

After the procedure, the doctor will put on dressings and you may be advised painkillers and antibiotics and also need to use ice packs. Stitches and staples will be removed after a week and complete recovery can take up to 10 days.

Cosmetic surgery in Phuket is very reasonably priced as compared to prices in Australia. You can pay as little as AUD $2,100 in Phuket for an eyebrow lift as against upwards of AUD $6,000 in Australia. Prices vary with the clinics and the procedure advised.

For the latest prices, check out these two recommended clinics in Phuket for brow lifts:

• Phuket Plastic Surgery Institute
• Doctor B Clinic Beauty and Surgery

Take a look through our Phuket clinics for cosmetic surgery and book with Medical Departures to guarantee the best prices online. 

See below for ways to book or get in touch with our Customer Care Team if you would like more information regarding eyebrow lifts in Phuket.

Sources:

Endotine TransBleph. Advancetech Surgical. Website accessed: 5 October 2020. http://www.advantechsurgical.com/transbleph

American Society of Plastic Surgery. Website accessed: 5 October 2020. http://www.surgery.org/

M. Mahmoud; Genaidy, M. Ahmed; Elshafei, M. Raafat; Abdallah, M. Mahmoud; Shetawy. Direct brow lift versus transblepharoplasty browpexy for correction of brow ptosis. Via: Journal of the Egyptian Ophthalmological Society. 2018. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327309101_Direct_brow_lift_versus_transblepharoplasty_browpexy_for_correction_of_brow_ptosis

Brow Lift. Mayo Clinic. 12 October 2019. https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/brow-lift/about/pac-20393257