Finding the fleur-de-lis tummy tuck named outright on a clinic site is uncommon. MacDonald Plastic Surgery lists it directly in the body contouring section, and that specificity is informative. The procedure adds a vertical incision for patients carrying significant loose skin after major weight loss, making it technically more demanding than a standard abdominoplasty. Its presence in the MacDonald Plastic Surgery menu alongside liposuction, arm lift, thigh lift, back lift and broader post-weight-loss body work points to a surgeon comfortable with the harder, less glamorous end of contouring cases.
Fleur-de-lis tummy tuck and body contouring
The practice is led by Dr. Jeannie MacDonald, MD, FRCSC, certified by the Royal College and trained in craniofacial surgery at the fellowship level. Craniofacial work addresses the bones and soft tissue of the face and skull, which maps directly onto the facial menu at MacDonald Plastic Surgery: facelift, neck lift, eyelid lift, brow lift, facial implants, ear surgery and scar revision. A surgeon with that background doing eyelid and brow work is a closer credential-to-service match than tends to be common in cosmetic practice, where plenty of operators move into facial procedures from unrelated training history.
Craniofacial training informs facial procedures
Breast work is the second clear pillar at MacDonald Plastic Surgery. The site lists augmentation, lift, augmentation paired with lift, asymmetry correction and implant removal. Naming removal as a published service is the detail worth pausing on. Plenty of clinics will place implants without publishing any path back, leaving patients to find another surgeon when they want them out. Listing asymmetry correction alongside it also acknowledges that not every chest is symmetrical to begin with, which is a more candid framing than the before-and-after gloss most augmentation pages run. A practice that addresses the full arc of a decision people sometimes reverse reads as more honest about how these procedures actually play out over the years that follow.
Breast surgery services
On the non-surgical side there is Botox, microneedling, IPL, laser hair reduction, vein treatment and chemical peels. These are the maintenance-tier treatments that bring people through the door between surgeries or as a lower-commitment alternative to them. The mommy makeover bundling, which typically pairs abdominal and breast work, fits the same logic: meeting patients where their actual goals sit rather than positioning a single headline procedure.
Non-surgical treatments and mommy makeover
MacDonald Plastic Surgery operates out of New Westminster, BC, with additional locations in Vancouver and Port Moody, covering a meaningful stretch of the Lower Mainland. The site points to Medicard and Beautifi for surgical financing, which is the standard route for cosmetic work that medical insurance does not cover. A phone number, a Keary Street address and weekday hours of 8 to 3 are stated plainly on the homepage, so a prospective patient can see how to book and where to go without digging through sub-pages.
Three locations across the Lower Mainland
An established surgical practice has an operational reason to publish its hours and keep them current across three sites; a loosely run one typically does not bother. Posted hours alone prove little, but combined with a fixed street address and a working phone line they show a front office that expects walk-in questions and is set up to handle them.
Posted hours and operational consistency
Third-party reputation is moderate. Dr. MacDonald holds a 4.4 out of 5 on RateMDs, a RealSelf profile with patient reviews exists, and ThreeBestRated.ca has placed MacDonald Plastic Surgery among the top three plastic surgeons in New Westminster. The site runs its own testimonials page as well, which is the least independent source of the group and should be weighed accordingly. No Google, Yelp or BBB aggregate score with a visible review count turned up for this specific location, so the external picture is assembled from a handful of platforms rather than one large pool of responses.
How much independent feedback exists?
The 4.4 RateMDs score is genuinely good, but its usefulness as a data point depends entirely on how many reviewers produced it, and that number is not spelled out on any of the platforms found. Craniofacial fellowship training, Royal College certification and a procedure list credibly matched to those credentials are the real strengths on display at MacDonald Plastic Surgery.
Reviewing the available reputation data
A multi-location operation with published financing options and consistent posted hours also points to a practice with some operational maturity behind it. What the published record still lacks is the volume of independent feedback that would let a prospective patient put real confidence behind the 4.4. For surgery, where a poor outcome is measured in scars and revision operations, a handful of reviews spread across several niche platforms is not the same as hundreds of responses on a single high-traffic source, and that difference is worth sitting with before going further.
