The Maercks Institute

12/03/2025

Dr. Maercks continues redefining what’s possible.

At The Maercks Institute, lipoderma to the face is not just a treatment, it is an artistic intervention guided by two decades of pioneering work. Dr. Maercks was the first to introduce the concept of Aesthetic Facial Balancing in the early 2000s, long before it became a global movement. Today, that same philosophy drives every detail of his lipoderma techniques: restoring harmony, softening asymmetries, and re-sculpting the face with subtlety and intention.

In this beautiful case, we use Lipoderma in the face to correct depletion, restore natural contours, and create a refreshed luminosity that still looks completely like you. No distortion, no volume excess just refined, elegant, structural enhancement rooted in true artistry.

A quick, painless treatment
A profound return to balance
A continuation of Dr. Maercks’ lifelong dedication to natural beauty

We invite you to experience why patients from across the world trust The Maercks Institute for results that elevate without ever revealing.

12/02/2025

✨ Part 6 : Selene Returns: “I Look Like Me Again.”

This story converts what The Maercks Institute and is really about, profoundly thoughtful interventions that translate in to profound changes in oir patients global lives✨✨✨

After a month away, Selene walked back into The Maercks Institute for her follow-up and refused to do it virtually because she wanted to surprise Dr. Maercks in person.

The moment she stepped through the door, she was glowing. She smiled, took a deep breath, and said the words that moved the entire team:

“I look like me again… I’m so happy.”

Turning 53 this year, Selene shared side-by-side photos from her youth pictures she treasured from when she was 23 and for the first time in decades, she saw the same face looking back at her.
Beautiful. Radiant. Harmonious.

In her follow-up, she shows Dr. Maercks her comparison photos her current face nearly identical to her daughter’s and to the youthful image she always loved but feared she’d lost forever.

And then she said something that captured the entire journey, more than any before-and-after could:

“My whole life is transformed. Everything is better — my work life, my family life, my friendships… my soul. I feel happiness again. I even feel like I have longevity now. Before coming here… I was dead.”

This is not just a physical transformation.
It’s a return to self.
A restoration of identity, confidence, and joy.

💫 Part 6 Selene’s Story: The Return.

Her journey continues to remind us that when the face is restored with artistry, respect for anatomy, and true compassion the spirit rises with it.

Stay tuned for the full documentary film of Selene’s extraordinary transformation coming soon to YouTube .

12/01/2025

Victoria returns for her second Lipoderma treatment at The Maercks Institute, and the results speak for themselves.

Today we evaluated her progress and the area we treated in her first session is completely corrected. Her hip dips are now beautifully contoured, smooth, and harmonious… exactly the kind of natural balance Lipoderma is designed to create.

We went forward with her second treatment to refine the next zone, and the transformation is already incredible. This painless, quick in-office experience continues to be one of our favorite ways to sculpt subtle, lasting shape with biologic precision.

We’re excited to share the before-and-after photos and videos so you can see her journey in real time, the artistry, the science, and the beauty of biologic contouring done right.

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Beauty as it was meant to be.

11/27/2025

Today we continue this remarkable story.

Twelve years ago, this patient trusted The Maercks Institute with something that was unheard of at the time. Her transazillary (through the armpit) breast augmentation was performed completely awake under local anesthesia, an experience she still describes as joyful, calm, and surprisingly fun. What still feels revolutionary to the world in 2025 has been part of our daily approach for more than a decade.

Since that first experience she has continued to trust The Maercks Institute and Dr Maercks with the faces and bodies of the people closest to her. Friends, family, and eventually her own face. When she returned for Aesthetic Facial Balancing, the transformation was once again subtle yet life changing. It elevated her confidence and expanded her career in ways she never expected at this stage in her life.

Her journey is a testament to what natural looking artistry, trust, and truly patient centered care can create. More chapters of her story coming soon.

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11/24/2025

From Model to Miami Swim Week in Three Days

Today we share the first chapter of a beautiful story. In 2013 this incredible patient came to The Maercks Institute seeking a completely natural looking breast augmentation that would honor her 20 year career as a working model. She had never booked swimsuit jobs before her procedure, yet three days after her cold subfascial breast augmentation under local anesthesia she walked the runway at Miami Swim Week with total confidence.

Her transformation was subtle, organic, and true to her form. No pain, no sedation, no downtime, and nothing that looked done. Just structure, balance, and the quiet power of feeling aligned with your body.

In this first video she reflects on how her results reshaped her career and her sense of self. Over the next six videos we will share more about her experience including her awake surgery, the natural technique behind cold subfascial augmentation, and the care and intention that guided every step.

We are grateful to have been part of her journey and cannot wait for you to see the full story.

11/14/2025

✨ One Month Follow Up: Real Results, Real Life ✨

Today’s virtual check in was pure joy.
One month after her Composite Deep Plane Facelift, this beautiful patient logged on absolutely glowing, and the stories she shared say everything.

At dinner with friends, people who are usually anti surgery or completely unaware of aesthetics were staring at her saying

“You look 20 years younger.”
“It’s like you’re FaceTuned in real life.”
“I can’t even tell what you did. You just look amazing.”

This is the beauty of a result that looks untouched, unoperated, and completely her. It is the quiet kind of transformation that blends seamlessly into her natural structure and restores her authentic harmony.

Nothing pulled. Nothing obvious. Only her, refreshed and radiant.

These are the moments we cherish at The Maercks Institute. Watching a patient feel celebrated, confident, and truly herself again is the greatest reward.

🩺 A one month check in with a remarkable human rediscovering her own radiance.

11/11/2025

🌅 Part 5 of 5 - Selene’s Story: A New Beginning

Within hours of surgery, Selene was standing in front of the mirror… smiling through tears.

Just one day after her revision facelift, the swelling could not hide what was unmistakably visible, a woman seeing herself again.

Her jawline defined, her neck restored, her scars refined to invisibility. But more than that, her confidence, her peace, and her spirit were back.

As she looked at her reflection, she said softly,
“I came here based on hope… but now, I feel like family.”

Her gratitude filled the room. “This went above and beyond anything I could have imagined,” she said through tears, a moment that moved the entire team.

From despair to rebirth, Selene’s journey embodies what true artistry and compassion in plastic surgery can achieve, not just restoring form, but restoring faith.

💫 Part 5 of 5 ‘Selene’s Story: A New Beginning.’

Watch the complete journey from heartbreak to hope, from fear to transformation in the full documentary coming soon to YouTube .

This is more than surgery.
It’s what happens when science, artistry, and humanity meet.

11/10/2025

💉 Part 4 of 5

✨Selene’s Story: The Awake Transformation

The room is quiet except for gentle music and laughter between surgeon and patient.

Imagine undergoing one of the most complex procedures in aesthetic surgery a full deep plane facelift revision, while awake, comfortable, and fully present in the experience.

In this extraordinary chapter, we step into the operating room with Dr. Maercks and Selene a patient who arrived fearful after a devastating prior surgery, now calm and radiant as her transformation unfolds in real time.

As Dr. Maercks carefully lifts the tissues and releases the scarred, misplaced tension left by her previous operation, he explains how the exact scarring patterns and structural irregularities he anticipated in her preoperative analysis are revealed beneath the surface.

“Exactly as predicted,” he observes. “The anatomy always tells the truth and when you understand it deeply, you can restore what was lost.”

Through the precision of the MAERCKS Lift and his proprietary Kedge Suspension, every movement is measured, deliberate, and restorative returning support, balance, and femininity where it had been taken away.

Three hours later no general anesthesia, no narcotics, no pain, the procedure is complete.

Still on the operating table, awake and glowing, Selene looks into the mirror discovering her now heart shaped face!

She gasps softly, smiles through tears, and says with quiet joy,
“I can’t believe it… this is wonderful. I already look like myself again.”

Her scars corrected.
Her structure restored.
Her spirit lifted.

💫 Part 4 of 5 — “Selene’s Story: The Awake Transformation.”

Next: The morning after Selene’s first full look at her new reflection, and her words that remind us all why healing is both art and soul.

11/08/2025

💫 Part 3 of 5 — Selena’s Story “The First Meeting : Connection, Tears, and Trust.”

The video opens not with a clinical meeting
but with a tearful embrace.

After years of fear, disappointment, and self-doubt,
Selene walks into The Maercks Institute for the first time.
She’s never met Dr. Maercks in person , only through a virtual conversation that gave her the first spark of hope
since her devastating previous surgery.

As the door opens, she whispers, “Thank you… I trust you.”

And in that instant, the energy in the room changes.

It isn’t a clinical exchange it’s human, vulnerable, transformative.
Two people, one who lost faith in her reflection,
and one who has dedicated his life to restoring harmony where it was taken, meet in a moment of truth.

Together, they review every scar, every asymmetry, every wound both visible and invisible.
Dr. Maercks explains not just the what and how,
but the why, revealing how artistry, anatomy, and empathy converge to make healing possible again.

Selene wipes her tears and says quietly,
“No one has ever explained things to me like you just did.”

That’s when hope becomes real.

💫 This is the heart of what we do.

The Maercks Institute isn’t only where faces are refined
it’s where trust is rebuilt, where patients rediscover their confidence and humanity.

Watch this emotional moment the start of Selenas transformation, the moment despair turned into possibility.

❤️ Part 3 of 5 Selene’s Story: From Despair to Maercks Magic

Next: the surgery itself done awake, no general anesthesia,
where Selene talks, smiles, and feels her life changing in real time.

11/07/2025

🎬 Selena’s REEL 1: Seleneas Story Begins — Finding Hope After Heartbreak

“I thought I was choosing the best…”

Selene came to The Maercks Institute after placing her trust in a well-known “celebrity” surgeon the kind seen on talk shows and morning news.

Instead, she was left scarred, uneven, and heartbroken.

In this first chapter, she bravely opens up about the pain of that experience, and the moment she discovered Dr. Maercks a moment that reignited her hope for healing.

Sometimes, the first step toward transformation is finding the courage to believe again.

💫 Part 1 of 5 — “Selene’s Story: From Despair to Maercks Magic”

Stay tuned for Part 2 — Dr. Maercks explains why this story is heartbreakingly common… and how we can change it.

11/07/2025

11/03/2025

🎶 Singing through surgery? Only at The Maercks Institute. 🎶

This beautiful soul came in for her Deep Plane Composite MAERCKS Lift™ no trifecta, no submental, just pure rejuvenation all performed wide awake under local anesthesia.

✨ Throughout the two-and-a-half-hour experience, she was talking, laughing, even singing country music while Dr. Maercks worked delicately in the deep plane of the face the anatomical layer where natural beauty lives.

Within hours, she was glowing. Within two weeks, she was radiant saying her outside finally matches her inside.

This is MAERCKS Magic™ a completely natural, painless, recovery-free journey that renews the midface, restores harmony, and redefines what’s possible in facial rejuvenation.

⛓️ True ligamentous support.
💫 No anesthesia, no pain, no downtime.
💎 Just you — refreshed, confident, and beautifully, naturally yourself.