The 2026 cost guide.

Every price band in the guide is a median of three independent sources: (1) quotes shared by DEEPPLANE™ community members who actually consulted with surgeons in that country over the last 12 months — the largest input; (2) published price ranges from the verified surgeon profiles in our directory, where a surgeon has provided a clinic-published price list; and (3) periodic mystery-shopper quote requests our research team sends to top-ranked clinics in each country. We never use scraped aggregator prices or press-release marketing numbers, because those systematically understate total cost to patients (hidden anesthesia, facility, and post-op care fees). Each table in the PDF shows the sample size (n=) for that country so you can see how firm the median is.

The 2026 edition covers 14 countries: United States, United Kingdom, Turkey, Mexico, South Korea, Germany, Spain, Italy, France, Brazil, United Arab Emirates, Colombia, Australia, and Canada. Each country has a median primary-deep-plane price, a median revision price, a typical breakdown of what's bundled vs. charged separately (anesthesia, operating room, first-night stay, follow-up visits), and the standard deviation across 10+ quotes in that market. Countries with fewer than 10 independent quotes are grouped into a 'regional estimate' section rather than given their own table, to avoid overstating precision.

Quarterly. Every three months we re-poll the surgeons in our directory for price changes, refresh the community-submitted quotes, and re-run the mystery-shopper requests. Between major quarterly editions, we publish a dated errata PDF if any country's median moves by more than 8% (which happens occasionally with FX swings — Turkey especially). The version shown on the cover page matches the quarter of the data inside; if you want to re-check the current version is fresh, your email subscription includes auto-notification when a new edition lands.

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One of the main reasons we publish this guide is that clinic 'quoted' prices and patient 'total' prices often diverge significantly, especially across borders. Quoted price = the headline number a clinic emails you when you inquire. Total price = what you actually spent by the end of recovery, including items often quoted separately: general anesthesia (commonly $2,000–$5,000 in the US / £1,500–£3,000 in the UK), operating room or facility fees (another $3,000–$8,000 in the US), first-night monitored stay (varies wildly), compression garments and post-op supplies ($200–$500), follow-up consultations in your home country, travel + accommodations for international care. The guide has a side-by-side table per country so you know what each column typically includes — it is usually the single most useful page people say helped them plan.

Yes — the guide is published under CC-BY-4.0, which permits reuse with attribution. Please cite it as: DEEPPLANE™. 2026 Deep Plane Facelift Cost Guide. Q2 edition. Available at https://deepplane.com/free-cost-guide. If you're a journalist, researcher, or medical writer who needs a custom slice (e.g. cost time-series for a single country, gender-stratified pricing, insurance-covered revision subset), email [email protected] with a one-paragraph description of the intended use and we'll respond within 3 business days.

Partially. Every country table in the PDF lists the median price in both local currency (TRY, GBP, EUR, KRW, MXN, BRL, AED, etc.) and USD, using the mid-market exchange rate frozen on the first business day of the quarter the edition covers. This is the most-accurate snapshot we can publish because live-exchange conversions would be outdated within days for volatile currencies (Turkish lira, for instance, has moved 8-18% quarter-to-quarter over the past three years). For patients comparing markets seriously, we recommend: (1) re-converting the local-currency figure at the rate you'd actually pay — your bank's wire-transfer rate, which is typically 1.5-3% worse than mid-market; (2) holding off on booking until within 30 days of your surgery date, because six-month-forward currency moves are the #1 reason a '20% cheaper' international quote ends up only 5-8% cheaper at wire time; (3) asking the clinic whether they lock the USD-equivalent price at quote-acceptance or reprice at wire-receipt — the latter effectively shifts FX risk to the patient. The guide's 'FX risk notes' sidebar covers the five markets most exposed to this.

Because the medians in our guide reflect total patient spend, and the numbers advertised on many clinic websites reflect surgeon fee only. In the US, the most common headline-number format is 'facelift starting at $18,500' — which is the surgeon fee line item. When you add facility/OR fees ($3,000-$8,000), anesthesia ($2,000-$5,000), first-night recovery stay when required ($800-$2,500), garments and post-op supplies ($200-$500), and two follow-up visits at standard consult rates ($400-$1,200), the total lands at $28,000-$45,000 — which is what our median reflects. UK private-practice quotes are similar but sometimes bundle anesthesia and facility into a single number, which compresses the range but doesn't lower the total. Turkey, Mexico, and South Korea pricing is often closer to the advertised number because aesthetic-medicine practices in those markets typically quote an all-in package (surgeon + OR + anesthesia + overnight + follow-ups), so our medians in those countries are closer to the clinic's headline figure. The cost guide's 'quoted vs total' table is the specific page that addresses this.