Biography
Mr Georgios Orfaniotis is a double board-certified, internationally trained plastic surgeon specialising in facial aesthetic and reconstructive surgery, operating in central London. He holds the FRCS(Plast) and the European Board of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery (EBOPRAS) qualifications, and was entered onto the GMC specialist register for plastic surgery in 2015. He worked as an NHS consultant for five years at The Royal London Hospital (Barts Health NHS Trust) and Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, where he performed complex head and neck reconstruction. He completed three years of advanced international fellowship training — in Taiwan, at Guy's and St Thomas', and at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia — before taking his consultant role in 2017. He has more than 30 published articles in peer-reviewed plastic surgery journals and has been recognised as invited faculty internationally, including travelling fellowship awards from the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He has publicly argued that surgical facelifts are becoming the preferred permanent anti-ageing option as patient confidence in non-surgical injectables wanes.
“I have 28-year-olds asking for facelifts. It's a very significant procedure, and I'm a bit concerned when I see people choosing it as a lifestyle choice.”
References
- 1.Georgios Orfaniotis | Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust — Confirms NHS consultant post at GSTT from 2018, prior role at Barts Health, volunteer work in Ethiopia, and international faculty recognition.
- 2.Mr Georgios Orfaniotis – BUPA Finder — Establishes qualifications, NHS and private dual practice, three-year international fellowship training, 2017 consultant role, and specialty areas.
- 3.About Georgios Orfaniotis, Certified Plastic Surgeon – personal website — Confirms NHS consultant history at Royal London and GSTT, GMC registration 2015, BAAPS/BAPRAS/ISAPS membership, and RCS travelling fellowship awards.
- 4.Mr Georgios Orfaniotis – Google Scholar (verified institutional email at gstt.nhs.uk) — Confirms consultant affiliation with GSTT, research interests (cancer reconstruction, microsurgery, cosmetic surgery), and citation count of 400+.
- 5.Georgios Orfaniotis – Spear's 500
Expertise
Cited on
Stated areas of expertise
- Head and neck reconstruction
- Facial aesthetic surgery
- Microsurgery and microvascular free flap surgery
- Skin cancer and oncological reconstruction
- Regulation of cosmetic surgery standards
- Surgical training and clinical research
Notable achievements
- Held a substantive NHS consultant post at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust (from 2018) performing complex head and neck reconstructive surgery. Source ↗
- Completed three years of advanced international fellowship training before his 2017 consultant appointment — one of the very few surgeons in the UK to have done so. Source ↗
- Won travelling fellowship awards from the Royal College of Surgeons of England and recognised as invited international faculty. Source ↗
- Author of over 30 published articles in peer-reviewed plastic surgery journals; cited more than 400 times on Google Scholar. Source ↗
- Volunteered in Ethiopia as an expert reconstructive surgeon for patients with disfiguring facial deformities. Source ↗
- Listed in the Spear's 500 as a recommended facial rejuvenation surgeon and quoted in press on trends in anti-ageing surgery.
Related media coverage
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Source references
- Why young women are having facelifts: ‘I couldn’t even open my eyes. That’s how swollen I was’theguardian.com · 8 Sept 2026
Contact & links
- Websitehttps://orfaniotis.co.uk
- Staff pagehttps://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/our-consultants/georgios-orfaniotis
- ORCIDhttps://scholar.google.com/citations?user=0HoilOwAAAAJ&hl=en
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