Mr Faisal Ashfaq Consultant Plastic Surgeon

Mr. Ashfaq is a Consultant Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon, fully licensed to practice and is on the GMC’s Specialist Register for Plastic Surgery. He is one of the few surgeons in UK to be trained in USA, UK, Switzerland and Pakistan. 

In his private practice, he has particular interest in face lifts, rhinoplasties and Breast and body procedures. In NHS, he is a Consultant Plastic Surgeon with special interest in Breast reconstruction at the Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester.

Mr. Ashfaq earned his medical Degree from Pakistan. He was then trained in Plastic Surgery for five years and earned fellowship from Pakistan. He worked there, as a Consultant both in public and private sector for 6 years. He also established the first Cleft lip and palate program for children with cleft deformities in his province. He also worked in Saudi Arabia in its largest Hospital, King Faisal Hospital for Research for three months. He then went to United States for one year for Clinical Microsurgery Fellowship from University of Tennessee, Memphis, USA. He started his Career in UK in Oxford, followed by working as a Fellow in Chelmsford (Saint Andrew Center) in Hand and Breast Microsurgery and finally as a Microsurgery Fellow in Norfolk and Norwich university Teaching hospitals. He also worked as a fellow at Leeds Teaching Hospitals in Breast Microsurgery. He started his first Consultant Job in UK in Bradford Teaching Hospitals and remained there for three years. He was responsible for resuming Breast microsurgical services at Royal Stoke university hospital after a halt of 3 years since COVID and worked there for two years before starting to work at Wythenshawe Hospital in Manchester.  

He did Facial Aesthetic and Cosmetic Surgery fellowship in LaClinic in Switzerland where he was trained in Facelift surgery by a master in this field Dr Michel Pflug. He has also visited state of art centers for Plastic surgery in the world including Chang Gung hospital in Taiwan, Ganga hospital in India and MD Anderson and Texas children Hospitals in Houston, USA.

He has been trained in all sorts of Facelift procedures like SMAS Plication or excision however currently offering the deep plane face lift that is considered the gold standard . He has independently performed both open and closed rhinoplasties and offer either depending upon Nose characteristics. For prominent ear correction, he is  amongst few surgeons in UK who offer incision less otoplasty without making a cut behind the ear. He has adopted a patient’s body measurement approach to breast augmentation and has been able to give natural results with perfect volumes. He has performed variety of techniques for breast reduction and offer each procedure depending upon patients’ tissues rather than sticking to one certain technique. 

Being a reconstructive Breast surgeon in NHS, He has been able to deal with breast Asymmetry with a variety of techniques. Majority of his tummy tuck procedures involve perforator sparing, minimal undermining, no drain approach that is modification of TUALA abdominoplasty where he also performs liberal liposuction of tummy and flanks and his patients can go home the same day. He has also performed all sorts of procedures for massive weight loss patients including arm and thigh lifts