Mr. Simon J Eccles BDS MBBS FRCS (Eng) FRCS (Plast)

Mr. Simon J Eccles BDS MBBS FRCS (Eng) FRCS (Plast) started off qualifying as a dentist when he realised his main area of interest included craniofacial and head and neck, so he went back to a 4 year training programme in General Surgery and became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1996. It is this double qualification that makes Mr. Simon Eccles understand head and neck surgery extremely well in both a reconstructive sense and cosmetic. Mr. Simon Eccles also heavily works with the NHS and does not anticipate ever leaving. Much of his reconstructive work is helping children from around the world, born with congenital head defects. Mr. Simon Eccles gives a lot of his time to Charities he is involved with and loves working with children. A lot of the challenging reconstructive work he performs weighs in heavily in helping his cosmetic work. Craniofacial surgery has a very strong association with aesthetic surgery and some of the pioneers worked very closely with the aesthetic side.

“Once you qualify is when you begin learning and not when you stop learning”

Mr. Simon Eccles specializes in facelifts, rejuvenation of upper and lower eyelids and brow surgery for adults.
Communication with the patient is a key factor during consultation and the ability to be able to translate their expectations into a procedure you can deliver. It is about managing expectation of a patient and getting to know the patient.

“The patient needs to feel well supported”

Mr.Simon Eccles claims to have a fantastic team of nurses and doctors who really care. A good surgeon he says is some that not only can deliver consistently goods results but can communicate with the patient and is eventually on the same wavelength as them.
Although the body is a work of art, you cannot see everybody as the same work of art, though anatomically they may be. They are all different and require individual attention to detail. For example there are 10 different types of facelifts so you need to assess very carefully what the patient wants at the end of the day.

“I love art and spend a lot of time looking at faces and the way artists represent things”
There is an artistic element in surgery but Mr. Simon Eccles believes that is underpinned by knowledge of anatomy and surgical techniques.
The quality of care has also increased with technological advances as surgeons understand many aspects of anesthesia, pain control, blood supply, wound healing better and are able to manipulate it in different ways, whether it be bio synthetic materials or artificial cartilage.
A great deal of surgery involves rejuvenation, which means putting things back to how they were before, so you are not destroying anything but merely preserving tissue so those procedures are repeatable. However repeatable they may be Mr. Simon Eccles is skeptical about starting cosmetic procedures too young and opening oneself to a lifetime of surgery and care.
Mr. Simon Eccles prides himself on having a high moral code and is happy to best advise in the patient’s interest.

Mr. Simon Eccles puts a smile on your face, this he can do from a simple meeting or from many of the reconstructive or cosmetic procedures he has performed. He is a doctor that seems to work for ‘love’ not ‘money’ and he really cares and it really shows.

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