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Amazing Experience with Amazing Natural Results - San Antonio, TX

I simply cannot say enough wonderful things about...

  • 18 Feb 2012

I simply cannot say enough wonderful things about the staff of Lifestyle Lift of San Antonio! From the moment I picked up the phone to schedule my free consultation, I was treated with the utmost respect and caring from the staff. A friend of mine had the procedure done in Houston and she was very happy with her results. I wanted a procedure that was not terribly invasive that would help me to look natural and refreshed. I was going to be 66 years old and my face was sagging and wrinkled with age and recent weight loss. I wanted the Lifestyle Life but I did not want to go to Houston. I was so excited to hear there was now a Lifestyle Lift in San Antonio! From the time I placed the first phone call to schedule an appointment I have not been disappointed. My consultation with Christy Cruz was great. She answered all my questions, including cost and did not pressure me to make a decision. It was all up to me! Once I read about Dr. Marc T. Taylor and viewed his many exemplary qualifications, including being double board certified by the American Board of Otolaryngology and the American Board of Plastic Surgery, I was determined that San Antonio Lifestyle Lift and Dr. Taylor was the place for me! Next I met with Gary Davis the San Antonio site manager and Kathleen Smith the surgical technician who were both extremely caring and very thorough in explaining the entire process and providing me with helpful advice to make the procedure as comfortable as possible. It was during this visit I got to meet Dr. Taylor, and I knew immediately that I’d made the right decision. He was very honest, sincere and caring, and made me feel totally at ease. I trusted him completely to take over my face. He did not disappoint me! I totally love the natural look I got with Lifestyle Lift. Dr. Taylor changed my long wrinkled face into a very fresh and natural younger look. My husband and children love my new look! My friends think I look amazing. My recovery was exactly what I had been told to expect; just a few painful days, (relieved by medication) with minimal swelling, and then I could see the amazing results. Dr. Taylor and the staff followed up with me the very next day to be sure I was doing ok after the surgery. I still look forward to each time I’m scheduled for a follow up visit because Dr. Taylor, Kathleen, Gary and all the staff are such awesome, caring, and fun people, I enjoy seeing them each time I go. Who knows? I may have even more procedures done since I have total confidence that Lifestyle Life of San Antonio will make me look the very best I can be!

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Dr. Taylor has extensive medical credentials which is excellent by any standards. The biggest reason I rated Dr. Taylor the highest I could is because of how he treated me.........he is caring, patient, he listens to everything I have to say, and he is an extremely skilled surgeon. He put me totally at ease, and he was very honest about expectations. I am absolutely thrilled with the changes Dr. Taylor made to my face which gives me a very natural, fresher, younger-looking appearance.

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UGLYSCARS 5 Jul 2012
I'd like to comment on the "WE INCLUDE ALL COMPONENTS" ?? who is we? do you work for this office? I think I have repeated ad-naseum the same thing for 7 years....
I had a full face life with NO POST OP CARE AND most importantly no drains. my incisions look like they were done by dr. frankinstein.
UGLYSCARS 5 Jul 2012
I was told I could go back to work the next day---they shoved me out the back door and I drove home alone---with 60-80 stitches in my face. This same outfit closed up their little shop of horrors and moved to Mt. Laurel NJ-where they continue to do damage.
RedfromTexas 6 Jul 2012
No I do not work for them. This is the statement I was given when I asked why my cost was more than some others. The "we include all 3 components" comes from the San Antonio staff of Lifestyle Lift.
Peridot48 19 Mar 2012
Dear Red: Congratulations on your procedure and am happy that your results turned out beautifully. While I live in Asheville, N.C., I had a complete face and neck lift in San Antonio, Texas performed by Dr. McInnes before he retired from practice, with outstanding results in 2000 at the age of 50. Those results have stood the test of time. Maybe these SA doctors are just better! One thing I do know for sure is that during these hard economic times, plastic surgery didn't escape the downfall in the economy. These lifts being done under the "Lifestyle" name are not the same as full face lifts that the Joan Rivers of the world, or the one I had in SA over a decade ago. If I decide to have another lift, I would certainly consult with your Dr. Taylor but also get a couple of other consultations before making a final decision. We are both redheads! Again, congratulations and continued good luck. During the last three months I've had a tummy tuck and a BA procedure locally with excellent results but did a lot of research and had
checked several different doctors before making my final decision. I'm not one of those people who believe the best medical procedures come at the biggest dollar cost either. I haven't found that to the be the case in SA or Asheville. Do you mind sharing why your Lifestyle procedure seems to be more costly that their advertised price. Thank you. p.
RedfromTexas 5 Jul 2012
Some of you have asked why I paid what I did. Here is how the price was explained to me: Most of the posts on Real Self are when they separated the face and neck firming into three parts. Lift, Lipo, Plat. People would leave out the Plat muscle to save a $1000, and then it falls in a year or two and the neck does not look good. Now we include all 3 components so the satisfaction rate has went up to 97%, and it does not fall a couple of years later. That’s why prices were cheaper and satisfaction was not as high. I had the Lift, Under eyes, Lasor for face, and the improved treatment that tightened thePlat muscle (under the chin). I'm very satisified and believe it was worth every penny!
Peridot48 6 Jul 2012
Appreciate all of your posts. Your willingness to put up your pictures (you look beautiful) and answer questions is valuable to me and many thanks. If I return to SA to live, I'll be in touch with Dr. Taylor. All the best, Elise in Asheville
UGLYSCARS 6 Jul 2012
peridot look at my picture. just click on the little avatar. I don't look beautiful at all.
inHerndonVA 17 Mar 2012
I went for a consult at the LSL office in Herndon , Virginia. I arrived on time but was kept waiting for over an hour : rich looking old women arriving after me were taken in before me ; and then when I finally decided to leave because I had to pick my daughter from school ( which i told them many times!) the woman who was supposed to be the "consultant" I was supposed to see, told me "well, you know this is a free consult , so..." Wow: so that allowed them to treat me like a less than important client. This "consultant" also apparently had had some procedure done on her own face and was walking around with a red bleeding kind of face : gave me the heebie- jeebies : that alone would have driven me away but add the insult and the wait : no one should be visiting them. The professionalism of the office personnel including the front desk people is a direct reflection on the the doctor's professionalism. I am so glad I walked out of there !!!
UGLYSCARS 10 Mar 2012
incredibly qualified surgeons are what LSL should be hiring. what happened to me should not have happened and Life Style lift did NOT CARE.
you should click on my picture.
gpriceless 5 Jul 2012

who was your doctor? Where did you have it done?

RedfromTexas 5 Jul 2012
Dr. Marc T. Taylor from the San Antonio, Texas Lifestyle Group. He was wonderful.
UGLYSCARS 5 Jul 2012
my doctor was a butcher.
UGLYSCARS 10 Mar 2012
for me LSL left me with horrific life long scarring.
I would not recommend it to anyone

where are all you happy campers coming from anyway?
UGLYSCARS 10 Mar 2012
I see all these new threads starting about how happy every one is--- what the heck is that?

how do you know to post in here with your happy happy results?

you can tell your office that the corporation they work for has damaged alot of women myself included.

I consider my self to be a victim of their butchers. look at my scars

its looks like the surgeon was not wearing his glasses or maybe just in a big rush to close the gapping wound on my face.
RedfromTexas 10 Mar 2012
My doctor in San Antonio, Dr. Marc Taylor, is incredibly qualified to do these cosmetic procedures. I wouldn't have done it if he was not. I'm very satisified, and very sorry you had a bad experience.
2trusting 10 Mar 2012
I know you are Red, it's really the pits to not have been as fortunate. We all believed they were the experts the LSL founder drills into everyone in all the gushing promos and internet literature...even to the press in an interview about the conviction of LSL for fraud etc. etc. by the Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo. "New York's Attorney General accused a cosmetic surgery company of trying to dupe consumers". They not only stand accused now they stand convicted as per article from NBC New York as of July 15, 2009. So if I had been able to find out about those things and more before I spent my hard earned money, I would have decided to look for other options. I can see where you probably will decide to let him do something under your chin that the lower SMAS he performed doesn't take care of. Bless your heart I hope you'll be ok.. You are very pretty and I really know you'll be careful about what you deside to do. God Bless you!
2trusting 29 Feb 2012
Dear Red,
Good Pictures!!! I'm so glad you're happy! What exactly did you have done and when did you have it done?
2trusting 2 Mar 2012
HMMMMMMM?????? WHAT DID YOU HAVE DONE FOR ALL THAT MONEY? And when did you have it done?
RedfromTexas 3 Mar 2012
I had the lifestyle lift, my under eyes (bags removed and tightened), lipo for my chin and neck, and laser treatment on my cheeks. Surgery was Oct 10th 2011
2trusting 8 Mar 2012
So you didn't have a forehead lift, too? That's a lot more money than I've seen on here being paid for the same procedures.
RedfromTexas 5 Jul 2012
Here is how the cost difference was explained to me. Most of the posts on Real Self are when they separated the face and neck firming into three parts. Lift, Lipo, Plat. People would leave out the Plat muscle to save a $1000, and then it falls in a year or two and the neck does not look good. Now we include all 3 components so the satisfaction rate has went up to 97%, and it does not fall a couple of years later. That’s why prices were cheaper and satisfaction was not as high. I had the Plat muscle under the chin done, the actual life, the under eyes, and the laser treatment for the face. I'm still believe it was worth every penny!

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