My experience at the Maercks Insitute was really amazing. Dr Maercks is very skilled and knows so much about deep plane facelifts. His technique is unique too which translate to less downtime and really no pain after surgery. He also really worries about your well being and he addressed all my concerns and questions and expectations. His staff on the other side is very loving,helpful and so sweet always making you feel comfortable and at ease. Isabella was my surgery coordinator and she has helped from the moment I had my first consultation with Dr Maercks. She does a great job. I will definitely recommend if you are thinking on doing a facelift you consult the Maercks Insitute.

Eric Brandon

March 19, 2025

I'll try to sum up my total pleasure in less than 1000 words. Dr. Maerks performed a carefully planned composite revision face lift, neck and brow lift. He was extremely detailed in what he planned to do and gave me honest expectations. It's now almost 2 weeks in my recovery and I'm like .. are you KIDDING? Thats the revised me! At 69 years young. As time progresses the results will continue to show the natural look to my appearance and vast improvements. He and his staff have been beyond incredible and I recommend The Maerks Institute to ALL 💯💯

Karen Landrum

March 13, 2025

Dr. Maercks is a very skilled doctor. His staff is warm and inviting and I am pleased with my result! I would highly recommend him.

Cheri Dickinson

March 13, 2025

Thursday, February 27, 2025 2:36 PM PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE read the negative reviews of him on Yelp, Google and RealSelf to understand how bad it can be especially if you value your time, your money or your beautiful looks. The positive reviews are overly fluffy while the negative ones absolute horror stories of permanent irreparable damage including mine. He failed to meet any of the overly high expectations that he claimed to be capable of delivering for every procedure. Worse than failing to live up to his descriptions of himself, the self-named MAERCKS facelift, MAERCKS breast augmentation and so called "sneaky" facial injections that leave lumpy uneven results all told costing approx. 100K resulted in a laundry list of complications as follows: traumatically torturous physical pain in recovery of the facelift and breast augmentation, bedridden for 10 days with 2 massive hematomas on both sides of my neck, permanent nerve pinching to my right ear along with a partially lopped off tragus, pronounced railroad track scars across both upper eyelids, and an extensive infection of my right breast resulting capsular contracture within just weeks of the breast surgery. If all that doesn't sound horrible enough, I was present in his office to consult about the infection 5 days before his preplanned 3 week vacation out of the country. Rather than recommend an emergency procedure to remove the infected implant immediately, he prescribed antibiotics for me then departed the country leaving me for another 4 full weeks. Upon his return, he actually suggested doing nothing as a possible option saying he believed the antibiotics had resolved the infection. I'd like to make this crystal clear - he addressed his personal affairs first and foremost before the care of a very sick patient. So entirely self-absorbed is he with his own self-grandiosity and affairs that he displayed insensitive disregard for a patient's potentially life-threatening situation. Fortunately or perhaps unfortunately for me, I disagreed insisting the implants be replaced because I wanted them to be smaller. I awoke expecting complete resolution only to have him inform me that rather than replace them, he had to remove both and install 2 drains, one in each breast because the infection had done so much damage to both breasts not just the right one and my breast tissue was liquified. The results of that implant extraction left no remaining natural breast tissue along with deeply sunken areoles and deep contracted scarring that more than a half dozen other plastic surgeons I consulted since all rejected me saying they couldn't possibly repair it. The breast repair continues to be an ongoing project as I continue to search for someone skilled enough to help me. The only good news of my experience is I am incredibly fortunate to have found a far superior facial plastic surgeon Dr. Jeffrey Spiegel in Boston who redid every aspect of the facial surgery for which I had already paid Maercks including necklift, eyelids, brow and hairline. Dr Spiegel couldn't fix the pinched ear nerve or lost tragus but no matter my face looks so great now people I've known for years didn't recognize me! I feel lucky this most unfortunate series of events with Maercks led me to someone who actually can deliver superior results. Take my experience into consideration if you ever think to do ANY procedure with this person. I ignored the many red flags and let my personal feelings cloud every aspect of my response to the situation. I was overly profuse with my thanks to him for his work and skills because of some personal tragedies I had experienced and blame myself for jumping into such extensive surgery that led to nothing but more grief, heartache and pain. Now that so much time has passed I hope this description is clear enough to help you make an informed decision if this is a person you could trust with your medical care. I feel so sad he didn't care enough to do any better for a real human patient when he easily could have but instead thought only of himself.

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