Charles Nduka, McIndoe Surgical Centre Consultant

Recently in the Daily Mail’s You magazine, six women talked about having Botox and the positive effect it has had on them. One lady from Surrey, Jan Upfold, came here to McIndoe Surgical Centre for her treatment, given by Mr Charles Nduka, consultant plastic surgeon.

To read the full article visit http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-1340562/The-Botox-boom-Six-women-talk-candidly-quest-perfection.html

If you would like to make an appointment with Mr Nduka please contact our Helpline 0800 917 4922.

Crackjack helmet similar to the one presented to McIndoe Winners

McIndoe Surgical Centre, East Grinstead  teamed up with West Sussex Council and local business Evans Cycles who offered to help with prizes for a Road Safety themed Word Search competition.  

The lucky winners chosen at random were Lili  from The Meads, Ashlea from Blackwell and Richard from Baldwins Hill Primary School. Each child received a Crackerjack cycling helmet and Hi-Visibility jacket. West Sussex County Council provided runners up prizes of Road Safety themed goody bags with an assortment of cool prizes inside.

All in all it was another successful community information campaign with many families receiving this vital advice. If it saves just one child from a tragic accident it’s a job well done.

McIndoe Surgical Centre would like to thank the Head teachers, staff and parents of the local primary schools in East Grinstead for their support in making the campaign a huge success.

To read how one young man benefited from the expertise of McIndoe Surgeon Peter Arnstein click on this link.

Pictures of the winners on South Downs Living

McIndoe – For the Life you want to live

McIndoe Plastic Surgeon Mr Balj Dheansa is hoping to spread some Christmas Cheer by offering cosmetic surgery consultations at his special clinic on Thursday 20th January for just £40.

As with any offer as spectacular as this, book early to secure your appointment. This offer is limited to the 20th January 2011 and will be offered on a first come basis.  To book please telephone the Helpline on 0800 917 4922 or email info@mcindoesurgical.co.uk .

Mr Dheansa is keen to stress that this will be a proper full length consultation at McIndoe Surgical Centre, East Grinstead.  His private practice covers all aspects of cosmetic surgery – breast enlargement, breast reduction, breast mastopexy (uplift), face lift, eyelid  surgery (blepharoplasty), nose reshaping  (rhinoplasty), liposuction and tummy tuck (abdominoplasty).

And if that isn’t a good deal, should you decide to proceed with surgery McIndoe Surgical Centre are able to help you fund this cost of treatment with the help of the BMI Credit Card. As with any credit facility terms and conditions apply*

What makes the BMI card particularly appealing is the fact that until June 2011 you will receive 12 months interest free credit on the card for any new cosmetic surgery and weight loss surgery procedures booked before the end of June 2011. After the 12 months has expired, the APR will rise to 9.9% variable.

Applications for up to £7,000 can be completed within 48 hours of the signed agreement.

*Terms and conditions apply. BMI Card is a credit facility offered by BMI Healthcare Limited.  Credit is offered at a typical APR of 9.9%.  A minimum payment is required each month from the start of the loan equivalent to 5% of the outstanding balance or £25 whichever is the greater, or the outstanding balance shown on the statement if it is less than £25. 

If you would like to know more about the card and how it works, please call 0800 917 4922 for a booklet to be posted to you. Or alternatively please visit the McIndoe Surgical Website.

McIndoe Surgical Centre – for the life you want to live.

Mr Baljit Dheansa a burns specialist and consultant plastic surgeon here at McIndoe Surgical Centre, was interviewed by Channel 4 news as part of their tribute to Bill Foxley and his interviewed can be seen here:

http://www.channel4.com/news/catch-up/display/playlistref/201210/clipid/201210_FOXLEY_20

Surgical techniques have changed and been adapted with the advancement of medicine and new pioneering techniques have been practised and found to be effective but Archibald McIndoe will always be known as the surgeon who made a better life for his “Guinea Pigs” here in East Grinstead.

If you have been burned recently or in the past and would like a consultation with Mr Dheansa please do not hesitate to contact our helpline on 0800 917 4922 or visit the website at www.mcindoesurgical.co.uk

The Perrywood Eagles football team are currently in 3^rd place, playing in the Tandridge B League, which has 5 divisions, which is excellent as the league is notoriously the strongest in the area. ‘Perrywood Eagles always go to each match with a positive attitude and show good sportsmanship, which is becoming increasingly rare, and we are very proud of the boys performance and their attitudes’ said Simon Willé, their coach, ‘Now we have new kits for the boys that fit, and everyone can get on with playing their best, thanks to McIndoe.’

We at McIndoe wish the boys every success in the upcoming matches.

Mr Simon Ellis is the new Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at our award winning hospital and we have great pleasure in welcoming him to the team. Simon will be concentrating on arthroscopies and looking after patients with soft tissue damage.

With over 25 years experience Simon can provide a reassuring and skilled consultation with your knee problems. Local sports fans will be pleased to know that McIndoe Surgical Centre now have the only surgeon in East Grinstead who performs these procedures and is available for consultation with immediate effect.

Sports related knee injuries are no respecter of age or ability and can affect every one of us. Many will remember Michael Owen’s devastating injury during the 2006 World Cup. Having only managed to play for 51 seconds of his third game, Owen badly twisted his knee and a scan revealed he had torn the anterior cruciate ligament. He was of course sent home as there is no treatment for this painful problem, other than reconstructive surgery.

Simon Ellis will be specialising in Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) surgery.  This specialist treatment formerly meant a trip to Hayward’s Heath or Redhill however local sports men and women can now avoid the hassle of the journey and take a simple trip to the McIndoe Surgical centre, here in East Grinstead.

If you would like to book an appointment with Simon or simply require more information on the treatments available please visit www.mcindoesurgical.co.uk or call our help line on 0800 917 4922.

Fortunately these days with the advances in cosmetic surgery techniques there are many things that can be done to improve the situation for men and women to give them back a more youthful image, better suited to their personality and lifestyle.

Botox can be extremely helpful in some cases for smoothing out furrows in the forehead and decreasing our frown lines that appear along the brow or around the eyes. It is however a temporary solution and will need to be routinely applied if the required look is to be maintained. Therefore ladies who want to achieve the same look, on a more permanent scale could opt for a Brow Lift. In this procedure the brow is lifted and tightened, leaving you with a smoother forehead. It can be exceptionally rejuvenating and gives you a more youthful and fresh look.

A face lift or Rhytidectomy, can help to tighten and refresh the skin around the face and neck, pulling wrinkles out and smoothing over any deep grooves. As you age the skin loses its elasticity and this procedure can be very effective in restoring a more youthful look. Scarring will always occur with any surgical procedure but the incisions are placed around and behind the ears and will be minimised as much as possible to give a fresh and smooth new look. Alternatively if you are simply unhappy with your cheeks and jowls, a mini facelift could help and is less intrusive surgically than the full face lift. Your surgeon will help you decide which procedure will give you the best result for your specific problem.

Sometimes mature ladies can suffer with drooping eyelids, where excess skin collects around the eyes and makes them look hooded and tired. Our eyes are one of our best features and it can make a huge difference when they are fresh and alert. Eyelid surgery or Blepharoplasty, can be performed under local or general anaesthetic, which you can discuss with your surgeon, and the result can make you look younger and fresher. Excess skin is taken from the crease in the upper eyelid and just below the lash line on the lower eyelid and then sewn together with very fine stitching.

With many other procedures available to help turn back the hands of time, a detailed consultation with a consultant plastic surgeon here at McIndoe Surgical Centre can help you decide what will be the right choice for you. From faces to arms, tummy’s to thighs, there is usually something that can be done to help you achieve the life you want to live with the look you long for.

Our consultant plastic surgeons are all BAAPS and/or BAPRAS registered and will happily provide you with a detailed consultation to discuss your options. With no hard sell or pressure placed on you, the consultations are designed to be informative and guiding and it will be your decision on the course of action after consultation.

If you want to make a start at sending Father Time to the back of the line, please call our helpline on 0800 917 4922 to discuss a consultation.

Peter Arnstein from the award winning McIndoe Surgical Centre in East Grinstead, was heavily involved in the making of this new show, highlighting surgeries gone wrong, and working hard to correct the botched surgery the patients had suffered at unregulated surgeries.

Mr Arnstein said, “Rescuing patients when cosmetic surgery has gone wrong can be the most challenging and at the same time an enormously satisfying achievement, but this series “The Ugly Face of Beauty” is not about us surgeons, it shouts a powerful message:  Be fully aware of what you are getting into.  Every action in life comes with risk and cosmetic surgery is no exception.

I was fortunate to be able to help 3 of 6 candidates of the programme who presented with a variety of problems.  The successful reparative/corrective surgery was all carried out at the McIndoe Surgical Centre, the Specialist Plastic Surgery Hospital in East Grinstead.

Although surgical complications are distressing enough, it is their description of the awful clinical environment these people found themselves trapped in which is truly worrying.   Despite all the apparent regulation quality control provided by the U.K. and E.U. bodies, there still appears to be ample lea way for opportunistic cosmetic clinics to pressure sell surgery and operate in dangerously sub standard conditions without backup or guarantee.”

Let the ladies speak for themselves in the Ugly Face of Beauty, every Tuesday starting 13th July at 8pm on Channel 4 for four weeks.

I frequently see patients in my outpatient clinic requesting tattoo removal.  The commonest problem is a change of partner requiring removal of a name or birthdate tattoo, but a change in employment or simply a change of fashion can cause people to regret the decision that was made to have a tattoo.

Several options exist when it comes to removing tattoos and all should be discussed with a patient before one method is chosen and treatment commences.  The size of the tattoo, its location, the colour and the cost of treatment all influence a patient’s treatment choice. So what are the options:

1. Do nothing – accept that no removal method is perfect and decide to cover the tattoo with clothing – easy in some areas and tricky in others!
2. Ask your tattoo artist if the offending name can be disguised in another tattoo – this can work very well at times.
3. Cosmetic Camouflage – The Red Cross runs courses to help people learn how to most effectively cover birthmarks and other blemishes like tattoos.
4. LASER treatment – this requires several different wavelength LASERs and often multiple visits to fade or remove the tattoo.  Patients considering this should look carefully into the realistic outcome of treatment – ask to see pictures from the clinic of tattoos of the same colours that they want removed.  Remember a course of treatment is usually required with a charge each time.  Attend only established clinics with multiple wavelength LASERs and experienced operators.
5. Tattoo Erase is a newer modality whereby a natural chemical is tattooed over the original tattoo.  The skin scabs and the scab peels off taking with it the underlying pigment.  This is repeated around every 8 weeks until all the pigment is gone.  The colour of the remaining skin may be altered and there may be some scarring.
6. Surgery – This can be the quickest and cheapest method of removing small tattoos, usually performed as an outpatient local anaesthetic procedure.  Larger tattoos may need a skin graft to cover the area once it has been removed.  Whilst this obviously leaves a significant scar it is a one stop procedure that appeals to many and can be explained away as the result of an accident if anyone asks.

My personal opinion is that no treatment is guaranteed to remove a tattoo without trace.  Patients therefore have to have an idea of what will be left behind after treatment.  Surgery will usually leave a linear scar if the tattoo is small enough to cut out and stitch closed, LASER may lighten some tattoos but still leave them readable – a disappointment if you wanted a name removed!  Tattoo erase usually removes the pigment of a tattoo but often leaves some scar tissue in the shape of the original tattoo.  Take your time to decide which treatment is most acceptable to you and research all costs up front so there are no surprises part way through treatment.

For more information call 0800 917 4922 or visit www.mcindoesurgical.co.uk

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