Check out our clinic dates to find a day that’s suitable for you at your nearest Linia clinic.

Call 0845 230 1700 to book or email enquiries@liniacosmeticsurgery.com

If you’d like to book an appointment at one of our Rejuvenate Non-Surgical clinics, simply text 07967  568120 with your name, the required date and time, a a brief description of the treatment you would like and we’ll then contact you to confirm.

“Cosmetic surgery has been around for years – but like the pace of modern life, treatment times are ­getting faster.

London’s Harley Street ­remains at the forefront of ­developments and I’m visiting surgery provider Linia to see patients undergo treatment in the time it takes the rest of us to have a leisurely lunch break.

It takes place under local ­anaesthetic, meaning the patient is awake throughout the ­operation and, once it’s over, can walk out of the surgery just hours later.

When I arrive at 9am I’m invited into a beautiful building.

I was surprised – maybe I was ­expecting a hospital with white walls and a smell of disinfectant.

But I am greeted with a living ­room-inspired waiting room, with comfy sofas and a cup of tea.

I meet Linia’s team and Azhar Aslam, the surgeon who will let me sit in on his operations.

I don’t have long before the first ­patient of the day arrives, Caroline Moore, who is 22.

Walking in with her boyfriend, Luke, 34, she has a large smile on her face, gives a big friendly hello to the team, but whispers, “I’m a little nervous” to me as she’s shown up the grand staircase to the consultation room.

Read Jenny’s full article here…   Daily Mirror article

Linia surgeon Mr Aslam was one of the first to pioneer this technique, which was featured heavily in the Daily Mail and other national media at the time – it was in fact known as ‘the lunchtime boob job’. It continues to be an increasingly popular choice with our patients at Linia Cosmetic Surgery and it’s great that the benefits are again being highlighted in the media. Many of our procedures are available with this safer option, including liposuction/liposculpture, breast augmentation, nipple surgery, adbdominoplasty and facelifts.

At Linia we refer to this surgical technique as ‘Quick Recovery Surgery’ as the patient can return home soon after surgery and begin their recovery in their own comfortable environment and they don’t have the risks of the possible side effects as with a general, which can also prolong recovery.

To help reassure patients who may feel nervous at the thought of being awake during surgery, we have a unique ‘Patient Buddy’ scheme that allows new patients who are considering surgery under local to speak to patients who have already had similar surgery with us. This is often the best form of ‘hand-holding’ and can help settle any nervous feeling or doubts the patient may have about not being put to sleep.

For further information on cosmetic surgery under local anaesthetic, or if you would like to watch video footage of Linia patient’s undergoing surgery using this technique, please visit http://www.liniacosmeticsurgery.com/gallery.php?img_id=81

Contact: enquiries@liniacosmeticsurgery.com

Or call 0845 230 1700

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Your wedding day will be one of the most photographed
days of your life …

For this reason we are offering you a fantastic opportunity to get ‘picture perfect’ for your big day.

If you are having a treatment and you bring in another member of the wedding party you will both get a 20% discount*.

This year, is definitely the year of the bride and here at Linia Cosmetic Surgery we offer an array of treatments from Botox to the S Facelift, to get you feeling and looking great for the big day. We are able to perform the majority of treatments under Local Anaesthetic which means that your surgery and recovery is safer, simpler and quicker. We also offer payment plans so you can spread your cost too.

In the run up to the big day, timing is all important and we will happily arrange a suitable time plan to fit into your busy pre-wedding schedule; plus because we specialise in surgery under Local Anaesthetic our treatments and your recovery is a lot quicker than traditional surgical methods.

Linia Cosmetic Surgery aims to provide the very best in cosmetic surgery and believe in creating beautiful, healthy and natural looking results.

To book your consultation and find out how we can get you ‘picture perfect’ please call or email us on 0845 2301700 / enquiries@liniacosmeticsurgery.com

*The special combined wedding discount of 40% is subject to a select amount publicity. A 20% discount will also apply to anyone wishing to do publicity on behalf of Linia Cosmetic Surgery.
To find out more please call or email Suzy on 020 7580 3121 / suzy@ellisboyd.com

Here’s what Amanda said -

DAILY MIRROR – 31/03/11

Fat and Frumpy… then we had children

I had a mummy tummy tuck

Amanda McMurtrie, 30, works for a bank and lives in Shropshire with her partner Andrew, 32, and her three children, Lewis, Leah and Alfie.

Like many women my weight has fluctuated over the years. At 5ft 2in I’ve been everything from a size eight to an 18-20 and that meant even when I lost weight, I had skin on my stomach that wouldn’t tone up.

When my weight finally stabilised at 8st 7lb and a size 10-12, I couldn’t shift my flabby tummy and I felt really self-conscious about it.

I always covered up in baggy clothes and refused to pose for photographs unless I could fold my arms across my middle.

After having three children my muscles didn’t knit together properly which meant my stomach became even more saggy and it was covered in stretch marks.

I couldn’t even bring myself to let Andrew see me naked. I was desperate for a tummy tuck so after Alfie was born I started saving hard. Friends and family thought I was crazy, until I showed them my bare stomach and then they agreed.

In the end I had the tummy tuck, which cost me £4,800. Immediately I was delighted to see how flat my stomach looked.

Now I’m happy to wear figure hugging dresses, knowing that my horrible bulge is no longer there. I’m happier with my figure now than ever. My only regret is that I didn’t do it sooner.

If you’d like to book a consultation at your nearest Linia Clinic, click here for a list of upcoming dates for the next few months.

Call us on 0845 230 1700 or email enquiries@liniacosmeticsurgery.com to book your free consultation with one of our surgeons…

We have extended the deadline of our competition, which will now be drawn on Valentine’s Day. Why not enter on behalf of a loved one? Give them the ultimate gift of rejuvenation…

Two lucky winners can each choose one of the following options:

● Breast Augmentation under local anaesthetic for £2,950

● Breast Augmentation under general anaesthetic for £3,450

● Facelift from £3,750

● A Non-Surgical treatment for free, up to the value of £250

● Or £500 discount on a surgical procedure of your choice

All you have to do is email enquiries@liniacosmeticsurgery.com to tell us in no more than 25 words why you would choose Linia for your Cosmetic Surgery. The best selection will be entered into a prize draw and two lucky winners will be pulled out and notified directly.

Closing date is 14th February 2011. Best of luck!

Terms and conditions apply.

Studying brain waves and physiologic patterns in patients under general anesthesia might help researchers build new neurological models of disorders, such as comas and insomnia

DEEP SLEEP?:

Patients undergoing significant operations, such as major cardiac or transplant surgery, typically require general anesthesia. But putting patients to “sleep” might not be the best way to describe the process, argued the authors of a new review paper, published in the December 30 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

What anesthesiologists are really doing is closer to putting patients—close to 60,000 each day in the U.S.—into a drug-induced coma. “It’s a reversible coma, but it’s nevertheless a coma,” says Emery Brown, a professor of anesthesiology at Harvard Medical School and coauthor of the paper.

General anesthesia before major surgery dips brain activity (as measured by electroencephalogram, or EEG) down to levels akin to brain-stem death. For the most part, Brown has found that anesthesiologists talk about the process in colloquial terms, telling patients they will be “asleep,” rather than “unconscious”—likely in an effort to not make a medical ordeal any scarier than it already needs to be.

That approach is doing both patients and scientists a disservice, he argues.

“It would be nice if your anesthesiologist could explain where drugs are going to be working,” Brown says. Many clinicians, however, might be hard pressed to offer detailed neurological explanations for how each compound they administer is working on the nervous system. They are more likely to think of it in terms of “we turn the knob and they go to sleep,” says Michael Alkire, an associate professor of anesthesiology at the University of California, Irvine, who was not involved in the new paper.

Inducing a coma-like state does require careful monitoring, breathing and temperature support as well as a delicate balance of “hypnotic agents, inhalational agents, opioids, muscle relaxants, sedatives and cardiovascular drugs,” Brown and his colleagues noted in their paper.

The mechanisms behind this concoction, carefully devised though it might be, are not always well comprehended. Long thought of as a “black box,” anesthesia now “can be explained and understood—it’s not a mystery,” Brown says. And researchers can further help to clear the field’s fog by expanding the field of anesthesiology to collaborations with experts in other fields, such as sleep and coma research.

Although anesthesiology and research on sleep and coma generally carry on independently of one another, “there’s a way to think about them all in the same framework,” Brown explains. And that common frame should be neuroscience, he says.

Alkire agrees that the coma model “is more appropriate,” and that “shifting toward that view is going to be helpful” in moving the field forward. And bringing the disparate fields, including researchers from sleep and coma work, together makes sense because “it’s all the same fundamental neuroanatomy.”

A push for more detailed neuroscience in the field might also help drive research toward new, more effective methods. Diethyl ether was a revolutionary tool in the 19th century that could knock people out before surgery, but it had some unpleasant side effects. “Now we need nuance” and more targeted tools like those cropping up in other areas of medicine, such as cancer treatment and screening, Brown notes.

Anesthesia, Alkire says, “is still kind of on the level of ‘we have a big hammer, and we hit you on the head, and you get knocked out.’” He and his colleagues have been working to find more “regional brain anesthesia that would change the state of consciousness,” he explains. “I think we have a ways to go” he says but notes that they have had some promising leads by zeroing in on the thalamus in animal studies. But even if clinicians might not yet have more delicate tools to dip patients into surgery-ready unconsciousness, Alkire notes, “understanding how it works puts you in a position to do better anesthetics eventually—if not with the agents you have right now.”

And taking a deeper look at how drugs are working during anesthesia might also yield helpful models for different neurological disorders, Brown says, noting the similarities between EEGs in patients under general anesthesia and those in comas.

On the more mundane front, advances in anesthesiology might also help with treatments for insomnia—but not in the ways one might think.

Traditional treatments often work on the same mechanisms as the drugs given to anesthetize patients before surgery, thus helping people conk out, but not necessarily replicating normal sleep patterns. By taking a closer look at the mechanisms at work during general anesthesia—and how some of the more widely prescribed sleeping meds behave in the brain—”we can ask ‘is that the way we want to [treat insomnia]?’” Brown explains.

And those advances in turn could feed back into the field of anesthesiology, helping to reduce side effects of general anesthesia, such as postoperative cognitive decline. Better understanding of the coma-like state of general anesthesia could also shed light on patients who are in a more permanent vegetative state, who upon waking go through very similar stages as those coming up from general anesthesia—albeit much more slowly. The key, says Brown, is “taking time to understand these mechanisms” and applying them to fine tune the proverbial hammer—a challenge that he and his colleagues hope to announce progress on in the coming months.

Read the original article here.

● Breast Augmentation under local anaesthetic for £2,950

● Breast Augmentation under general anaesthetic for £3,450

● Facelift from £3,750

● A Non-Surgical treatment for free, up to the value of £250

● Or £500 discount on a surgical procedure of your choice

All you have to do is email enquiries@liniacosmeticsurgery.com to tell us in no more than 25 words why you would choose Linia for your Cosmetic Surgery. The best selection will be entered into a prize draw and two winners will be announced at the end of January 2011.

Closing date is 26th January 2011. Best of luck!

Terms and conditions apply.