Professional Profile

Dr Alex Turner graduated from Medical School in the UK in 2000. Following postgraduate training in General and Orthopaedic surgery, Alex pursued a career in Plastic Surgery. She worked in world-renowned Plastic Surgery Units such as Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, and Guys & St Thomas’ Hospital in London. Alex moved to Australia in 2008 and continued her Plastic Surgical career in major Hospitals within Melbourne and Adelaide. In 2016 she was awarded Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS) as a Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon Alex holds a Consultant Staff Specialist Position at Flinders Medical Centre. Her private practice includes all facets of plastic surgery with a significant proportion being cosmetic surgery. She specialises in breast augmentation (enlargement, reduction, lifts, and corrections), surgical procedures for the body (weight loss surgery and body contouring, liposuction, tummy tucks, body lifts, labiaplasty, Brachioplasty and thigh lifts), facial surgery (rhinoplasty, facelifts, blepharoplasty, neck lifts, otoplasty, and facial fractures), Skin Cancer Surgery (melanomas and carcinomas), hand surgery (Cubital/Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Osteoarthritis, Arthritis, trigger finger, Dupuytren’s disease, ganglions, tendons, nerve repairs, and fractures), men’s plastic surgery (including Gynaecomastia). and paediatric plastic surgery.

Procedure Face:

• Brow lift
• Otoplasty (Ear pinning)
• Blepharoplasty (Eyelid surgery)
• Meloplasty or rhytidectomy (Face lift)
• Facial implants
• Facial scar revision
• Autologous fat grafting (Fat injection)
• Forehead lift
• Non-surgical facial treatments
• Platysmaplasty (Neck lift)
• Rhinoplasty
• Scalp expansion
• Scalp reduction

Procedure Breasts:

• Anisomastia mammoplasty (Breast asymmetry correction)
• Augmentation mammoplasty (Breast augmentation)
• Mastopexy and augmentation (Breast implants with lift)
• Mastopexy (Breast lift)
• Breast reconstruction
• Reduction mammoplasty (Breast reduction)
• Revision mammoplasty (Breast revision)
• Augmentation mammoplasty (Fat transfer and implants)
• Male Reduction mammoplasty (Breast reduction) (Gynaecomastia)
• Nipple enhancement for inverted nipples
• Breast hypoplasia (Tuberous breast correction)

Procedure Body:

• Abdominoplasty: cosmetic or muscle repair post-partum
• Brachioplasty (Arm lift)
• Gluteal augmentation (Brazilian butt lift)
• Implants (chest, calf, buttock,etc)
• Gluteal augmentation (Buttocks lift)
• Thighplasty (Thigh lift)
• Torsoplasty (Whole body lift)
• Liposuction
• Monsplasty (Pubic lift or reduction)
• Vaginoplasty (Vaginal surgery)

Procedure Reconstructive:

• Breast
• Burns and scarring
• Facial fractures
• Hand surgery
• Skin cancer
• Trauma

Hospitals affiliated with:

• Blackwood Hospital

Professional Memberships and Associations:

• Australasian Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons
• Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons
• Royal Australasian College of Surgeons