Meeting Rajiv you immediately feel safe in his hands, through his passion for facelifting, his love of people and because he deeply cares about getting you the best result.

– Kay Burley, Sky News Anchor

What makes a Facelift Hero?

Helping facelift patients along their journey has taught me a lot about people and life. In over 20 years of practice, I am reminded time and time again that life is bigger than anything a person may have achieved in terms of success or notoriety. I have had the privilege of treating many interesting and amazing patients, people I never dreamt I would meet. Looking at their lives and their professional achievements, however great, is like seeing dots on a curve. But the whole vast area under the curve is actually what real life is all about and constitutes the real person and the real you. Plastic Surgery is very democratising, I have been privileged to treat everyone from the office worker to the Oscar winner to the Royal. The dots on the curve may differentiate the humblest from the most exalted person but the area under the curve, which is 95% of our lives, is common to all and gives us meaning and purpose. It’s all about the people we knew, our friendships, our family, our loves, and is truly what we all have in common. We all get up in the morning, we do what we have to do as well as we can, and we go to bed at night. But we all have loves, we all have fears, worries, and joys. That is what the journey of life is about and getting through it makes everyone a hero.

What this means for me as a surgeon is that under the veneer of the dots on the curve, all people have greater similarities than differences. It is imperative therefore to treat everyone with equal compassion whoever they are. The journey to undergo surgery makes everyone feel vulnerable. It is easy to understand why because the real person, which is the area under the curve, is easily exposed when the overlying veneer of our achievements evaporates prior to surgery. Understanding this as a surgeon and offering a supportive hand to all the facelift heroes in equal measure has been a huge privilege over the past two decades.

KAY BURLEY

Rajiv gives you the personal care and attention that makes you feel like you are his only patient coupled with a genuine enthusiasm to do his very best for everyone he treats.

Kay Burley, Sky News Anchor, and facelift patient of Rajiv Grover

Meeting Rajiv you immediately feel safe in his hands through his passion for facelifting, his love of people and because he deeply cares about getting you the best result. Facelifting is a physical and emotional journey. Rajiv only embarks on this if he is sure that it will totally deliver for you. He makes that decision, whoever you are, by applying the simple yardstick of whether he would advise going ahead if this was his wife or mother.

 

What really struck me was that he gives you the personal care and attention that makes you feel like you are his only patient. This is coupled with a genuine enthusiasm to do his very best for everyone he treats. Having had surgery with him it was remarkable that everyone I met in the hospital, people that are not employed by Rajiv in any way, all completely adore him and can’t stop singing his praises, from the nurses to the hospitality staff and even the cleaner who has been on the ward for over 15 years. They told me that having seen the quality of his work they advised the ward manager and deputy matron who were seeking facelifts that Rajiv was the best surgeon to go to. Both those ladies were delighted just as I am. In treating me he managed to make a beautiful improvement but I still look like me and totally natural, even when presenting sky news on high definition television. I have since recommended Rajiv to several of my friends and they are all uniformly delighted. A brilliant surgeon and a brilliant person!

FIONA GOLFAR

Rajiv is a charming, artistic, and technically gifted surgeon but somehow knowledgeable on so many things in life and the arts – a true renaissance man.

Fiona Golfar, Editor at Large British Vogue and facelift patient of Rajiv Grover

 

I came to Rajiv after hearing about him from several of my girlfriends who had undergone facelifts with him. Working at Vogue myself, he was the beauty editor’s choice having treated several from Vogue and Tatler along with their mothers. Meeting him he was instantly charming, warm, and kind but totally down to earth which immediately made me feel comfortable. Without doubt Rajiv has a stellar client list treating many familiar faces who you think haven’t had surgery but who miraculously never seem to age yet never look done. Seeing him in action, what was clear is that he treats everyone exactly the same. There is no separate VIP track with him because everyone is a VIP which I found reassuring and endearing. I wasn’t coming to him as a Vogue Editor but as a vulnerable woman concerned about her appearance which is a very personal feeling to expose. 

 

Personality aside you want your surgeon to get a result for you. Everybody wants to look natural but going through this you want a really worthwhile result at the end. He managed to do exactly that, getting a really significant improvement without changing who I was but reflecting how I felt inside. Rajiv is a perfectionist and clearly his surgery was performed with precision and delicacy because I had minimal swelling, no pain and not a single bruise. His anaesthetist told me afterwards that this was not an unusual outcome but what Rajiv’s patients regularly look like. I stayed two nights and Rajiv visited each day, he removed my bandages as he doesn’t delegate any of the aftercare and I saw him each week for the following two weeks when he removed my stitches personally which he does for all his patients. His staff in Harley Street were all wonderful, supportive, and efficient. Many of my friends have since been to him for facial surgery and are all thrilled. Rajiv is a charming, artistic, and technically gifted surgeon but somehow knowledgeable on so many things in life and the arts – a true renaissance man.

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