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Updated 2026-10-28

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Facelift procedures

Each procedure has one page on facelift.studio. The definition below is the opening of that page. A Wikidata link appears only when the Wikidata item is that exact procedure.

Facelift

A modern facelift lifts the deeper tissue of the cheek, jowl and jawline together with the skin, and closes the skin without tension through incisions around the ear. Facelift patients in a FACE-Q study felt they looked about 7 years younger. The techniques differ in how deep the lift goes and which ligaments are released. Wikidata Q1423937 Wikipedia

  • Deep-plane facelift: A deep-plane facelift releases the ligaments that hold the cheek down and lifts the skin, cheek fat and underlying muscle layer together as one flap, to treat sagging cheeks, jowls and a soft jawline. Hamra described the operation in 1990, and no study since has shown that it lasts longer than other SMAS facelifts.
  • SMAS facelift techniques: The SMAS is the layer of fibrous tissue and muscle under the facial fat, and nearly every facelift done by board-certified plastic surgeons tightens it. Surgeons fold it with stitches, remove a strip of it or lift it as a separate flap; reviews find high satisfaction with each method and none proven best.
  • Short-scar facelift and MACS lift: A short-scar facelift uses a shorter incision, usually in front of the ear only, and less skin undermining than a full facelift, for a less visible scar and a faster recovery. It works best on the jowls and cheeks of people with modest neck laxity; the best-known version, the MACS lift, holds the face up with purse-string sutures anchored at the temple.
  • Subperiosteal, vertical and preservation facelifts: These facelifts lift the face upward more than back toward the ear. A subperiosteal lift frees the soft tissue from the bone and moves the whole facial "mask" up; vertical, endoscopic and "preservation" lifts are newer versions that leave more tissue attached and often avoid the incision in front of the ear.
  • Facelift anatomy: The face is built in layers: skin, fat, a layer of fibrous tissue and flat facial muscles that surgeons call the SMAS, a deep fascia, and the facial nerve branches beneath it. Facelift techniques differ in which layer the surgeon lifts, which ligaments are released and how close the work runs to the nerve.
  • Facelift incisions and scars: A facelift scar runs along the temple, in front of the ear, around the earlobe and behind the ear, and where each part sits decides whether the sideburn, hairline, tragus and earlobe keep their natural shape. A fine scar comes from careful placement and from a closure in which the deep layer of the face carries the lift, so the skin is sewn without tension.
  • Facelift by age: Most people who have a facelift are in their 50s and 60s, and the average age is about 61. Health matters more than age: carefully selected patients over 65, 75 and even 80 have complication rates close to those of younger patients, and people who have a first facelift younger tend to go longer before a second.
  • Male facelift: Men are about 1 in 10 facelift patients in the United States, and their operation follows the same principles as a woman's with changes for the male face. A male facelift is planned around the sideburn, beard and hairline, aims for a natural masculine face, and adds strict blood pressure control because older series found more bleeding under the skin in men.
  • Facelift in skin of color and Asian patients: Faces of Asian, African, Hispanic, South Asian and Middle Eastern descent often show aging later and often carry thicker, heavier tissue over a different facial skeleton, so surgeons adjust the lift direction, the neck work, the bone contour and the scar and pigment care. The plan follows each person's own anatomy instead of a racial category, and most published facelift experience outside White patients comes from East Asian patients.
  • Secondary and revision facelift: A secondary facelift is a second facelift, usually about a decade after the first, for aging that has continued; a revision corrects a result that fell short or a deformity left by the first operation. Scar tissue makes the second operation harder, yet in published reviews its overall complication rate is close to that of a first facelift and patients are at least as satisfied.

Neck lift

A neck lift tightens the platysma muscle and removes fat and skin under the chin and along the jawline. A deep neck lift also treats the fat, digastric muscles and salivary glands below the platysma. Wikidata Q72369474

  • Deep neck lift: A deep neck lift treats the structures under the platysma muscle (deep fat, the digastric muscles and the submandibular salivary glands) as well as the skin and muscle on top. Surgeons add it when a neck would stay full after skin and muscle tightening alone.
  • Platysma bands and platysmaplasty: Platysma bands are the vertical cords at the front of the neck, formed by the inner edges of the platysma, the thin muscle under the neck skin. Platysmaplasty treats them by stitching, cutting, moving or denervating that muscle, usually during a neck lift or facelift; botulinum toxin softens them for a few months without surgery. Wikidata Q18388948
  • Submandibular gland reduction: Submandibular gland reduction trims the part of the salivary gland that bulges below each side of the jaw, so the neck keeps a clean line after a neck lift; some surgeons lift the gland instead of cutting it. The main risk is weakness of the lower lip from stretching of the nerve that moves it: about 1 in 20 patients in pooled data, and in most series it recovered within weeks to months.
  • Submental liposuction and neck contouring: Liposuction under the chin removes the fat that lies just under the skin through small incisions, and it works best when that fat is the main problem and the skin is firm enough to shrink back. Fullness from deeper fat, salivary glands or the digastric muscles, and loose skin or bands, need a neck lift instead.
  • Facelift and neck lift after nonsurgical treatment and GLP-1 weight loss: Fat-dissolving injections, fat freezing, energy devices and threads can leave scar tissue in the neck that makes a later neck lift longer and deeper, with contour irregularities afterward. Weight loss on GLP-1 drugs such as semaglutide and tirzepatide takes fat mostly from the superficial layer of the face, so surgery after it has to deal with lost volume as well as loose skin.

Midface and cheek

Midface surgery lifts the cheek fat back over the cheekbone, restores lost volume with fat, or removes buccal fat to slim the lower cheek.

  • Midface lift and cheek: A midface lift raises the soft tissue of the cheek, including the malar fat pad and the fat under the eye muscle (SOOF), to shorten the lower eyelid and blend the lid into the cheek. Surgeons reach the cheek through the temple, through a lower eyelid incision or during a facelift, and the eyelid route carries more risk of a lower lid that is pulled down. Wikidata Q141660014
  • Buccal fat removal: Buccal fat removal takes out part of the buccal fat pad, a deep fat body in the cheek, through a small cut inside the mouth to slim a full lower cheek and show more of the cheekbone. It suits a small group of people with a round face and a large pad; about 1 in 4 patients has a complication, and no published series has followed patients long term. Wikidata Q4982382
  • Fat grafting and volume with facelift: A face ages by losing volume as well as by sagging, so many surgeons add the patient's own fat during a facelift to refill the cheeks, temples and folds. About a third of the injected fat stays, and the cheek volume it adds was still there at a year.

Eyelid surgery

Eyelid surgery removes or moves skin and fat of the upper and lower lids, fills the tear trough, tightens the outer corner of the eye and raises a drooping lid. Wikidata Q2559992 Wikipedia

  • Upper blepharoplasty: Upper blepharoplasty removes excess skin from the upper eyelids, sometimes with a strip of the muscle beneath and a little fat. It suits adults whose loose upper lid skin makes the eyes look heavy or tired, or blocks the upper field of vision and causes heaviness, headache and tearing.
  • Lower blepharoplasty: Lower blepharoplasty treats bags under the eyes by removing, moving or regrafting the fat that bulges below the eye, and by removing loose skin when there is some. The operation has moved from removing that fat to keeping it and setting it into the hollow along the bone below the eye, because removal alone could leave a sunken, operated look.
  • Tear trough and lid-cheek junction surgery: Tear trough surgery smooths the groove between the lower eyelid and the cheek: the surgeon releases the ligament that tethers the groove and fills it with the patient's own fat, either moved from the eye bag on its blood supply or grafted. Surgery is the most predictable and longest-lasting choice for moderate to deep grooves; filler suits a mild groove with good skin, a firm lid and little fat bulging.
  • Canthoplasty and canthopexy: Canthopexy and canthoplasty anchor the outer corner of the eyelids (the lateral canthus) to the bony rim so the lower lid stays against the eye and keeps its shape. Surgeons add them to lower eyelid and midface operations that can pull the lid down or turn it out, and to blepharoplasty when the lower lid is loose.
  • Blepharoptosis repair: Ptosis repair raises an upper eyelid whose edge sits too low, either by reattaching and tightening the lid's lifting tendon through a crease incision or by shortening a small lifting muscle from inside the lid. Drooping lids are often missed in people seeking facial rejuvenation because the forehead muscle lifts them; one series found it in more than half of those patients.

Brow lift

A brow lift raises a low or heavy brow through small scalp incisions, the temple, the hairline, the eyelid crease or an incision above the brow. Wikidata Q141333520

  • Endoscopic brow lift: An endoscopic brow lift raises low eyebrows through a few short incisions in the scalp, using a thin camera, and weakens the frown muscles between the brows. It treats a drooping brow and frown lines; a typical lasting lift is about 3 to 4.5 mm, most at the outer brow.
  • Temporal and lateral brow lift: A temporal (lateral) brow lift raises the tail of the eyebrow and the hooded skin at the outer corner of the eye through a short incision in the temple, usually behind the hairline. It suits people whose outer brow has dropped, which usually happens before the inner brow drops, and it is often done with an upper eyelid lift or a facelift.
  • Hairline brow lift and forehead reduction: A hairline brow lift raises the eyebrows through an incision along the front hairline and removes forehead skin, so the hairline does not move back as it can after coronal or endoscopic lifts and stays stable for years. Forehead reduction, also called hairline lowering, uses the same incision and moves the whole scalp forward to shorten a tall forehead, by about 2 cm in large series.
  • Browpexy and direct brow lift: A browpexy holds up the outer eyebrow with stitches placed through the upper eyelid incision during a blepharoplasty, so the brow does not drop below the bony rim. A direct brow lift removes a strip of skin just above the eyebrow to raise it, and it suits men, older women and people with facial nerve weakness.

Skin resurfacing

Resurfacing removes the damaged upper layers of the skin with a laser or a chemical peel so new skin forms. It treats wrinkles, sun damage and texture that a facelift does not change.

  • CO2 laser resurfacing: CO2 laser resurfacing removes the outer layer of skin and heats the layer beneath it, so wrinkles flatten, loose skin tightens and new collagen forms. It treats fine and moderate wrinkles around the mouth and eyes and sun-damaged skin, either over the whole surface (fully ablative) or in narrow columns with untreated skin between them (fractional).
  • Erbium laser resurfacing: Erbium:YAG laser resurfacing removes thin layers of skin with each pulse and leaves little heat damage in the tissue around them. It treats fine to moderate wrinkles, sun damage and scars; it heals faster with less redness than the CO2 laser, while CO2 gives more wrinkle improvement in most comparisons.
  • Phenol-croton oil peel: A phenol-croton oil peel is a deep chemical peel: painted on the skin, it wounds into the dermis, and the skin heals with a new band of collagen that smooths deep wrinkles and sun damage for years. Croton oil sets how deep it goes, and modern formulas with less of it give natural results without the bleached look of the classic peel.
  • TCA and medium-depth peels: A medium-depth peel uses trichloroacetic acid (TCA), usually at 35% after a first coat of Jessner's solution, to remove the outer skin and the top of the dermis so the skin heals with new collagen. It improves sun damage, blotchy pigment, fine lines and precancerous spots, and does less for deep wrinkles and scars than a phenol peel or a laser.
  • Resurfacing with a facelift: A facelift moves skin and deeper tissue but does not change fine wrinkles, lip lines or uneven pigment, so surgeons add laser resurfacing, a chemical peel or plasma, at the same operation or later. Done the same day with adjusted settings, the combination had low complication rates: in pooled studies, satisfaction was very high and loss of lifted skin was rare.

Lips, chin and fat

These operations shorten the upper lip, lift the mouth corners, enlarge or move the chin and graft processed fat into the face.

  • Lip lift: A lip lift removes a strip of skin just under the nose to shorten the upper lip, so more of the red lip and a few millimeters of the upper teeth show. Newer deep-plane versions lift the layer under the skin as well, so the skin closes with less tension and the scar heals better. Wikidata Q6556148
  • Corner lip lift: A corner lip lift removes a small piece of skin at each corner of the mouth to raise a corner that turns down. It treats mouth corners that droop with age or from birth; surgery lifts the corner more than injections do, and it always leaves a small scar.
  • Chin implant: A chin implant is a shaped piece of silicone, porous polyethylene or ePTFE placed on the chin bone, through a small cut under the chin or inside the mouth, to bring the chin forward. It suits a mildly to moderately small chin without a major bite problem, and it can be placed during a facelift.
  • Sliding genioplasty: A sliding genioplasty reshapes the chin by cutting the lower front of the jawbone through an incision inside the mouth, moving the chin segment and fixing it in its new place. With a facelift it does a second job: bringing the chin bone forward also firms the tissue under the chin and along the jaw.
  • Nanofat and microfat: Microfat is fat collected through small-hole cannulas and injected in tiny parcels to add volume, and nanofat is microfat broken down and filtered into a liquid fine enough to inject into the skin with a needle. Both are used for fine wrinkles, skin texture, scars and dark circles, and the evidence that they improve skin quality is still weak.

Safety and recovery

How surgeons prevent bleeding, nerve injury and skin loss after a facelift, how anesthesia and blood pressure control keep patients safe, and what recovery looks like week by week.

  • Facelift complications and outcomes: Serious complications after a facelift are uncommon: about 1 patient in 55 needs an emergency visit, a hospital stay or a second operation, most often for a hematoma. Patients rate their results highly at one year, and most still rate them well more than a decade later as aging continues.
  • Signs of a bad facelift: A facelift looks bad when the surgery shows: a face pulled sideways, an earlobe dragged down onto the cheek, a moved hairline or lost sideburn, visible scars, or a neck that is hollow, banded or older than the face. Most of these signs come from the direction and tension of the lift and from how much skin, fat or muscle is removed, and many can be corrected in a later operation.
  • Facelift recovery timeline: Facelift recovery, as published studies measure it, starts with a first night that carries the main risk, bleeding under the skin, and most people are back to social life in about a week. Return to work averaged two weeks after a short-scar lift, and the swelling inside the face takes about six months to clear.
  • Anesthesia and recovery in facelift surgery: A facelift can be done under general anesthesia, intravenous sedation or local anesthesia, in a hospital or an office operating room. The anesthetic plan is part of the safety plan: keeping blood pressure down and preventing nausea and vomiting lowers the risk of bleeding under the skin.
  • Preventing bleeding after a facelift (hematoma): A hematoma, blood that collects under the lifted skin, is the most common serious early problem after a facelift. The best-supported protection is strict control of blood pressure, pain and nausea around the operation; tranexamic acid, tissue glue and the hemostatic net each lower the rate in some studies, and none has been shown better than the others.

Facelift surgeons

Featured first, then the Top 500 in rank order. NPI is the National Provider Identifier from the federal NPPES registry, listed when the registry returns exactly one surgeon with the same name and state.

SurgeonPlaceSpecialtyPracticeNPI
Dr. T. Gerald O'Daniel, MD · featured Louisville, KY Plastic surgery drodaniel.com 1871585018
Dr. Benjamin Talei, MD · #1 Beverly Hills, CA Facial plastic surgery beverlyhillscenter.com 1144472879
Dr. Babak Azizzadeh, MD, FACS · #2 Beverly Hills, CA Facial plastic surgery facialplasticsbh.com 1124051172
Dr. James Stuzin, MD · #3 Miami, FL Plastic surgery instituteofaestheticmedicine.com 1366712234
Dr. Foad Nahai, MD, FACS · #4 Atlanta, GA Plastic surgery metroderm.org 1083634398
Dr. Bahman Guyuron, MD, FACS · #6 Lyndhurst, OH Plastic surgery drbahmanguyuron.com 1407872484
Dr. Steven Cohen, MD · #7 San Diego, CA Plastic surgery facesplus.com
Dr. Renato Saltz, MD, FACS · #8 Salt Lake City, UT Plastic surgery saltzplasticsurgery.com 1518083195
Dr. Dino Elyassnia, MD · #9 San Francisco, CA Plastic surgery dinomd.com 1316070048
Dr. Michael Lee, MD · #10 Dallas, TX Plastic surgery parkcitiescosmeticsurgery.com
Dr. Charles Thorne, MD · #11 New York, NY Plastic surgery charlesthornemd.com
Dr. Alan Matarasso, MD, FACS · #12 New York, NY Plastic surgery alanmatarassomd.com 1639222524
Dr. Kiya Movassaghi, MD, DMD, FACS · #13 Eugene, OR Plastic surgery drmovassaghi.com
Dr. L. Mike Nayak, MD · #14 St. Louis, MO Facial plastic surgery nayakplasticsurgery.com
Dr. Jason Roostaeian, MD · #15 Los Angeles, CA Plastic surgery drjasonplasticsurgery.com 1346491552
Dr. Jose E. Barrera, MD, FACS · #16 San Antonio, TX Facial plastic surgery drjosebarrera.com 1619966686
Dr. Ozan Sozer, MD · #17 El Paso, TX Plastic surgery elpasoplasticsurgery.com
Dr. R. Brannon Claytor, MD, FACS · #18 Bryn Mawr, PA Plastic surgery cnplasticsurgery.com 1114035995
Dr. Edwin F. Williams III, MD, FACS · #19 Latham, NY Facial plastic surgery williamsfacialsurgery.com 1922008887
Dr. Rod Rohrich, MD, FACS · #20 Dallas, TX Plastic surgery drrohrich.com 1801826383
Dr. Theda C. Kontis, MD, FACS · #21 Baltimore, MD Facial plastic surgery acwplasticsurgery.com 1558479394
Dr. Ira D. Papel, MD, FACS · #22 Baltimore, MD Facial plastic surgery acwplasticsurgery.com 1700994548
Dr. Kevin Sadati, DO, FAACS · #23 Newport Beach, CA Facial plastic surgery drkevinsadati.com 1053490003
Dr. Chia Chi Kao, MD · #24 Santa Monica, CA Plastic surgery kaoplasticsurgery.com 1427136951
Dr. Jeffrey Kenkel, MD, FACS · #25 Dallas, TX Plastic surgery drkenkel.com 1427088905
Dr. Jennifer L. Walden, MD · #26 Austin, TX Plastic surgery drjenniferwalden.com
Dr. Andrew Jacono, MD, FACS · #27 New York, NY Facial plastic surgery newyorkfacialplasticsurgery.com 1245247949
Dr. James Newman, MD, FACS · #28 Palo Alto, CA Facial plastic surgery premierplasticsurgery.com 1619012762
Dr. Jonathan M. Sykes, MD · #29 Beverly Hills, CA Facial plastic surgery drjonathansykes.com 1851377493
Dr. Timothy Marten, MD, FACS · #30 San Francisco, CA Plastic surgery martenclinic.com 1740327048
Dr. Corey Maas, MD · #31 San Francisco, CA Facial plastic surgery maasclinic.com 1851469282
Dr. Rami K. Batniji, MD, FACS · #32 Newport Beach, CA Facial plastic surgery drbatniji.com 1467534644
Dr. Phillip R. Langsdon, MD · #33 Germantown, TN Facial plastic surgery drlangsdon.com 1396701413
Dr. Steven J. Pearlman, MD, FACS · #34 New York, NY Facial plastic surgery mdface.com 1972684421
Dr. Steven Dayan, MD, FACS · #35 Chicago, IL Facial plastic surgery impressionschicago.com 1326034786
Dr. Samuel Lam, MD, FACS, FISHRS · #36 Plano, TX Facial plastic surgery lamfacialplastics.com 1679580468
Dr. Julius Few, MD · #37 Chicago, IL Plastic surgery fewinstitute.com 1093750945
Dr. Joe Niamtu III, DMD · #38 Midlothian, VA Oral and maxillofacial surgery lovethatface.com 1427019405
Dr. Daniel E. Rousso, MD · #39 Birmingham, AL Facial plastic surgery drrousso.com 1447299987
Dr. Malcolm D. Paul, MD · #40 Newport Beach, CA Plastic surgery drmalcolmpaul.com 1124108253
Dr. Daniel Gould, MD, PhD · #41 Beverly Hills, CA Plastic surgery drgouldplasticsurgery.com 1386052967
Dr. Sidney Starkman, MD · #42 Scottsdale, AZ Facial plastic surgery scottsdalefacialplastics.com 1881038966
Dr. Samuel Lin, MD, FACS · #43 Boston, MA Plastic surgery linplasticsurgery.com 1710088026
Dr. Jason Bloom, MD, FACS · #44 Bryn Mawr, PA Facial plastic surgery bloomfacialplastics.com 1184780108
Dr. Louis Bucky, MD, FACS · #45 Philadelphia, PA Plastic surgery drbucky.com 1609808757
Dr. Paul Nassif, MD, FACS · #46 Beverly Hills, CA Facial plastic surgery drpaulnassif.com 1154422665
Dr. Philip Miller, MD, FACS · #47 New York, NY Facial plastic surgery drphilipmiller.com 1831285758
Dr. Ritu Chopra, MS, MD · #48 Beverly Hills, CA Plastic surgery ordonchopra.com 1417118464
Dr. Jill L. Hessler, MD · #49 Palo Alto, CA Facial plastic surgery hesslerplasticsurgery.com 1922043074
Dr. David A. Sieber, MD · #50 San Francisco, CA Plastic surgery sieberplasticsurgery.com 1760645022
Dr. Edward H. Farrior, MD, FACS · #51 Tampa, FL Facial plastic surgery drfarrior.com 1518052430
Dr. Mark Beaty, MD · #52 Alpharetta, GA Facial plastic surgery beatymd.com 1225118326
Dr. Gordon Sasaki, MD, FACS · #53 Pasadena, CA Plastic surgery drsasaki.com 1184730822
Dr. Jeffrey Spiegel, MD · #54 Newton, MA Facial plastic surgery drspiegel.com 1932161577
Dr. Guy G. Massry, MD · #55 Beverly Hills, CA Oculoplastic surgery drmassry.com 1134137441
Dr. J. Kevin Duplechain, MD, FACS · #56 Lafayette, LA Facial plastic surgery drduplechain.com 1477522068
Dr. Thomas Mustoe, MD, FACS · #57 Chicago, IL Plastic surgery drthomasmustoe.com 1609801737
Dr. David Hidalgo, MD, FACS · #58 New York, NY Plastic surgery drdavidhidalgo.com 1750309829
Dr. Daryoush (David) Saadat, MD · #59 Beverly Hills, CA Facial plastic surgery drdavidsaadat.com 1134188295
Dr. Edward D. Buckingham, MD · #60 Austin, TX Facial plastic surgery buckinghamfacialplastics.com 1467434142
Dr. Marc Glasgold, MD, FACS · #61 Princeton, NJ Facial plastic surgery glasgoldgroup.com
Dr. Boris Ackerman, MD · #62 Newport Beach, CA Plastic surgery doctorackerman.com 1295829802
Dr. Sam Rizk, MD, FACS · #63 New York, NY Facial plastic surgery drsamrizk.com
Dr. Richard D. Gentile, MD · #64 Youngstown, OH Facial plastic surgery facialplastics.org 1275618316
Dr. Kian Karimi, MD, FACS · #65 Los Angeles, CA Facial plastic surgery drkian.com 1073603262
Dr. Kenneth Kim, MD, FACS · #66 Los Angeles, CA Plastic surgery drkennethkim.com 1952473274
Dr. Ashkan Ghavami, MD · #67 Beverly Hills, CA Plastic surgery ghavamiplasticsurgery.com 1831393388
Dr. Ali Totonchi, MD · #68 Lyndhurst, OH Plastic surgery drtotonchi.com 1760650824
Dr. C. Bob Basu, MD, MBA, MPH, FACS · #69 Cypress & Houston, TX Plastic surgery basuplasticsurgery.com 1730269150
Dr. Steven Levine, MD · #70 New York, NY Plastic surgery stevenlevinemd.com 1992995583
Dr. John B. Holds, MD, FACS · #71 St. Louis, MO Oculoplastic surgery eyelidmd.com 1134117732
Dr. Ariel Rad, MD, PhD, FACS · #72 Washington, DC Plastic surgery sherberandrad.com 1538215843
Dr. Ramtin Kassir, MD · #73 New York, NY Facial plastic surgery drkassir.com
Dr. Gregory Albert, MD · #74 Boca Raton, FL Plastic surgery optimizationcentre.com 1871669069
Dr. Ross A. Clevens, MD, FACS · #75 Melbourne, FL Facial plastic surgery drclevens.com 1538140231
Dr. Mark Hamilton, MD, FACS · #76 Carmel, IN Facial plastic surgery hamiltonfps.com 1578667713
Dr. Henry Mentz, MD, FACS · #77 Houston, TX Plastic surgery drmentz.com
Dr. Anthony Admire, MD, FACS · #78 Scottsdale, AZ Plastic surgery admireplasticsurgery.com 1578534251
Dr. Lorne K. Rosenfield, MD · #79 Burlingame, CA Plastic surgery drrosenfield.com 1295712792
Dr. Alfonso Barrera, MD, FACS · #80 Houston, TX Plastic surgery lookinggood.com 1205865391
Dr. Angelo Cuzalina, MD, DDS · #81 Tulsa, OK Oral and maxillofacial surgery tulsasurgicalarts.com
Dr. Joshua Rosenberg, MD · #82 New York, NY Facial plastic surgery drjoshuarosenberg.com 1699906735
Dr. Marcelo Antunes, MD · #83 Austin, TX Facial plastic surgery faceaustin.com 1871791558
Dr. Jay Calvert, MD, FACS · #84 Beverly Hills, CA Plastic surgery drcalvert.com 1831201193
Dr. David Rosenberg, MD · #85 New York, NY Facial plastic surgery drdavidrosenberg.com 1558342451
Dr. Alan B. Brackup, MD, FACS · #86 Langhorne, PA Oculoplastic surgery drbrackup.com 1417059908
Dr. Louis M. DeJoseph, MD · #87 Sandy Springs, GA Facial plastic surgery picosmeticsurgery.com 1851486955
Dr. Rahul Seth, MD, FACS · #88 Walnut Creek, CA Facial plastic surgery gsplasticsurgery.com 1073784682
Dr. Andrew P. Trussler, MD · #89 Austin, TX Plastic surgery drtrussler.com 1952319626
Dr. Grady Core, M.D. · #90 Birmingham, AL Plastic surgery coreandassociates.com 1710088117
Dr. Bardia Amirlak, M.D., F.A.C.S. · #91 Dallas, TX Plastic surgery amirlakplasticsurgery.com 1063543700
Dr. Kent Kye Higdon, MD · #92 Franklin, TN Plastic surgery higdonplasticsurgery.com 1447471198
Dr. Parker A. Velargo, MD · #93 New Orleans, LA Facial plastic surgery plasticsurgerynola.com 1003080201
Dr. Flora Levin, MD, FACS · #94 Westport, CT Oculoplastic surgery drfloralevin.com 1760683288
Dr. Catherine Winslow, MD · #95 Carmel, IN Facial plastic surgery indyface.com 1376648808
Dr. Anita Sethna, MD, FACS · #96 Atlanta, GA Facial plastic surgery anitasethnamd.com 1801072459
Dr. John Lindsey, MD, FACS · #97 Metairie, LA Plastic surgery johnlindseymd.com 1477518702
Dr. Donn Chatham, MD · #98 Louisville, KY Facial plastic surgery drchatham.com
Dr. Gregory A. Greco, DO, FACS · #99 Red Bank, NJ Plastic surgery drgregorygreco.com 1083764187
Dr. Charles M. Boyd, MD, MBA, FACS · #100 Birmingham, MI Facial plastic surgery boydbeauty.com 1871680645
Dr. Allan Wulc, MD, FACS · #101 Plymouth Meeting, PA Oculoplastic surgery wcosmeticsurgery.com 1518954700
Dr. Derek Steinbacher, MD, DMD, FACS · #102 Guilford, CT Plastic surgery dereksteinbacher.com 1083687529
Dr. Gabriele Miotto, MD · #103 Atlanta, GA Plastic surgery atlantaplasticsurgeon.com 1316332414
Dr. Michael J. Yaremchuk, MD · #104 Boston, MA Plastic surgery dryaremchuk.com 1326038977
Dr. Melinda Haws, MD · #105 Nashville, TN Plastic surgery theplasticsurgerycenterofnashville.com 1265434070
Dr. Herluf G. Lund Jr., MD, FACS · #106 Chesterfield, MO Plastic surgery stlcosmeticsurgery.com 1750318085
Dr. Marco Ellis, MD · #107 Chicago, IL Plastic surgery marcoellismd.com 1508021171
Dr. George Bitar, MD, FACS · #108 Fairfax, VA Plastic surgery bitarinstitute.com 1306976709
Dr. Adam Rubinstein, MD, FACS · #109 Aventura, FL Plastic surgery dr-rubinstein.com 1033174388
Dr. Sammy Sinno, MD · #110 Chicago, IL Plastic surgery drthomasmustoe.com 1174814412
Dr. Mark G Albert, MD, FACS · #111 New York, NY Plastic surgery albertplasticsurgery.com 1598086910
Dr. Iliana Sweis, MD, FACS · #112 Northbrook, IL Plastic surgery chicagoplasticsurgery.com 1437298221
Dr. Sarmela Sunder, MD · #113 Beverly Hills, CA Facial plastic surgery sunderplasticsurgery.com 1417053760
Dr. Mehdi Sina, MD, MBA · #114 Las Vegas, NV Facial plastic surgery vegasfacialplastics.com 1598011397
Dr. Amir Dorafshar, MD, FACS · #115 Chicago, IL Plastic surgery evolveyourlife.com 1942415823
Dr. Ran Stark, M.D., FACS · #116 Bryn Mawr, PA Plastic surgery starkmdplasticsurgery.com 1376779389
Dr. Matt Novak, MD · #117 Southlake, TX Plastic surgery drmattnovak.com 1528418134
Dr. Waleed Ezzat, MD · #118 Boston, MA Facial plastic surgery drezzatmd.com 1821118837
Dr. Kenneth Morgenstern, MD, FACS · #119 Wayne, PA Oculoplastic surgery morgensterncenter.com 1427019207
Dr. Barry DiBernardo, MD · #120 Montclair, NJ Plastic surgery newjerseyplasticsurgery.com 1164599262
Dr. Steven Teitelbaum, MD · #121 Santa Monica, CA Plastic surgery drteitelbaum.com 1356471882
Dr. Laurie A. Casas, MD, FACS · #122 Glenview, IL Plastic surgery casas.md 1093882573
Dr. Daniel C. Mills, MD, FACS · #123 Laguna Beach, CA Plastic surgery danmillsmd.com 1568550242
Dr. Joe Gryskiewicz, MD · #124 Burnsville, MN Plastic surgery tcplasticsurgery.com 1346358231
Dr. Amir Moradi, MD · #125 Vista, CA Facial plastic surgery moradimd.com 1467567032
Dr. Catherine Chang, MD, FACS · #126 Beverly Hills, CA Plastic surgery privebevhills.com
Dr. Amit Bhrany, MD · #127 Seattle, WA Facial plastic surgery seattlefaceandskin.com 1043223514
Dr. Nolan Karp, MD · #128 New York, NY Plastic surgery nolankarp.com 1982645206
Dr. Babis Rammos, MD, FACS · #129 Peoria, IL Plastic surgery rammosplasticsurgery.com
Dr. John Kim, MD, FACS · #130 Chicago, IL Plastic surgery drkimsurgery.com
Dr. Demetri Arnaoutakis, MD · #131 Tampa, FL Facial plastic surgery drdemetrimd.com
Dr. Adam Bryce Weinfeld, MD · #132 Austin, TX Plastic surgery drweinfeld.com 1346363280
Dr. Andres Sarraga, MD, FACS · #133 Aventura, FL Plastic surgery sarragaplasticsurgery.com 1720280563
Dr. John Cook, MD · #134 Chicago, IL Plastic surgery johnqcookmd.com 1811038102
Dr. Michael Somenek, MD · #135 Washington, DC Facial plastic surgery somenekpittmanmd.com 1881853448
Dr. Sean Alemi, MD, FACS · #136 New York, NY Facial plastic surgery drseanalemi.com
Dr. John J. Martin Jr., MD · #137 Coral Gables, FL Oculoplastic surgery johnmartinmd.com 1376566562
Dr. Sheila Barbarino, MD, FAAO, FAACS, FACS · #138 Austin, TX Oculoplastic surgery barbarinosurgicalarts.com 1659578698
Dr. Stephen A. Prendiville, MD · #139 Fort Myers, FL Facial plastic surgery drprendiville.com 1558309054
Dr. Sarah Mess, MD · #140 Columbia, MD Plastic surgery sarahmessmd.com 1740281047
Dr. Masoud Saman, MD, FACS · #141 New York, NY Facial plastic surgery samanmd.com
Dr. Sean Delaney, MD · #142 Houston, TX Facial plastic surgery todaysface.com 1285056903
Dr. M. Bradley Calobrace, MD, FACS · #143 Louisville, KY Plastic surgery caloaesthetics.com 1144597741
Dr. Mike Chiodo, MD · #144 Dallas, TX Plastic surgery drmikechiodo.com
Dr. Julie Shtraks, MD · #145 Bryn Mawr, PA Facial plastic surgery bloomfacialplastics.com 1912313792
Dr. Ricardo Meade, MD · #146 Dallas, TX Facial plastic surgery doctormeade.com 1174553655
Dr. Oren Friedman, MD · #147 Philadelphia, PA Facial plastic surgery drorenfriedman.com 1780654822
Dr. Anil Shah, MD, FACS · #148 Chicago, IL Facial plastic surgery shahfacialplastics.com
Dr. Benjamin Caughlin, MD, FACS · #149 Chicago, IL Facial plastic surgery drbuccalfat.com 1972828283
Dr. Michael Godin, MD · #150 Richmond, VA Facial plastic surgery drgodin.com 1861422438
Dr. Renee Burke, MD · #151 South Barrington, IL Plastic surgery reneeburkemd.com 1225175573
Dr. A. Jay Burns, MD · #152 Dallas, TX Plastic surgery resurrectskinmd.com
Dr. Babar Sultan, MD · #153 Towson, MD Facial plastic surgery sultanfacialplastics.com 1063610301
Dr. Joseph Fodero, MD · #154 Florham Park, NJ Plastic surgery northeasternplasticsurgery.com 1073541314
Dr. Elizabeth W. Chance, MD · #155 , VA Facial plastic surgery drchance.com 1750593612
Dr. James Marotta, MD, FACS · #156 Smithtown, NY Facial plastic surgery marottamd.com 1942366968
Dr. Brock D. Ridenour, MD, FACS · #157 St. Louis, MO Facial plastic surgery ridenourplasticsurgery.com 1164536710
Dr. Paul Afrooz, MD · #158 Coral Gables, FL Plastic surgery drpaulafrooz.com 1528295102
Dr. Sean Boutros, MD, FACS · #159 Houston, TX Plastic surgery myhoustonsurgeons.com 1154319598
Dr. Anthony Youn, MD · #160 Troy, MI Plastic surgery dryoun.com 1164573424
Dr. Christopher Patronella, MD, FACS, FICS · #161 Houston, TX Plastic surgery patronellamd.com
Dr. Isaac Starker, MD · #162 Florham Park, NJ Plastic surgery peergroupnj.com 1932175536
Dr. Beverly A. Fischer, MD · #163 Timonium, MD Plastic surgery beverlyfischer.net 1538199096
Dr. Sanjay Grover, MD, FACS · #164 Newport Beach, CA Plastic surgery drgrover.com 1982776852
Dr. Eugene Kim, MD · #165 Beverly Hills, CA Plastic surgery ekimplasticsurgery.com
Dr. Daniel Shapiro, MD, FACS · #166 Scottsdale, AZ Plastic surgery shapiroplasticsurgery.com 1508234915
Dr. Anthony Berlet, MD · #167 Cedar Grove, NJ & New York, NJ Plastic surgery berletplasticsurgery.com 1184691594
Dr. John Burns, MD, FACS · #168 Dallas, TX Plastic surgery drjohnburns.com 1952375321
Dr. Manish Shah, MD, FACS · #169 Englewood, CO Plastic surgery drmanishshah.com 1437121340
Dr. John Sherman, MD, FACS · #170 New York, NY Plastic surgery nyplasticsurg.com 1871650820
Dr. Garth Fisher, MD · #171 Beverly Hills, CA Plastic surgery garthfisher.com
Dr. Brian Glatt, MD, FACS · #172 Morristown, NJ Plastic surgery drbrianglatt.com 1184691875
Dr. Parit Patel, MD, MBA, FACS · #173 Chicago, IL Plastic surgery pscofchicago.com 1013118140
Dr. Alan Pillersdorf, MD, FACS · #174 West Palm Beach, FL Plastic surgery plasticsurgerypb.com 1750366126
Dr. Michael Zenn, MD, FACS, MBA · #175 Raleigh, NC Plastic surgery zennplasticsurgery.com 1396829271
Dr. Albert Dabbah, MD · #176 Boca Raton, FL Plastic surgery doctordabbah.com 1578572723
Dr. Christopher Chang, MD · #177 Chevy Chase, MD Plastic surgery congressionalplasticsurgery.com
Dr. Ankit Desai, MD, FACS · #178 Jacksonville, FL Plastic surgery plasticsurgeryjacksonville.com 1932302387
Dr. Gregory Fedele, MD · #179 Beachwood, OH Plastic surgery drfedele.com 1306949557
Dr. Adam Kolker, MD, FACS · #180 New York, NY Plastic surgery drkolker.com 1588683528
Dr. Brian V. Heil, MD, FACS · #181 Wexford, PA Plastic surgery premierplasticsurgerypa.com 1457382269
Dr. Vincent N Zubowicz, MD · #182 Atlanta, GA Plastic surgery zubowicz.com 1750450599
Dr. Mary Gingrass, MD · #183 Nashville, TN Plastic surgery theplasticsurgerycenterofnashville.com 1518959931
Dr. Scott Spiro, MD, FACS · #184 West Orange, NJ Plastic surgery drspiro.com 1093896250
Dr. David Shifrin, MD · #185 Chicago, IL Plastic surgery shifrinplasticsurgery.com
Dr. Ashley Boustany, MD · #186 Boston, MA Plastic surgery drboustany.com 1235544602
Dr. Barry Cohen, MD · #187 Rockville, MD Plastic surgery bjcohen.com 1760565865
Dr. Mariam Awada, MD, FACS · #188 Southfield, MI Plastic surgery michigancosmeticsurgery.com 1114979515
Dr. Andrew Cohen, MD, FACS · #189 Encino, CA Plastic surgery drandrewcohen.com 1841367208
Dr. Andrew P Giacobbe, MD, FACS · #190 Williamsville, NY Plastic surgery wnyplasticsurgery.com 1689776668
Dr. Bill G. Kortesis, MD, FACS · #191 Huntersville, NC Plastic surgery hkbsurgery.com 1316122575
Dr. David Stoker, MD, FACS · #192 Marina del Rey, CA Plastic surgery drstoker.com
Dr. Deniz Sarhaddi, MD · #193 Chesterfield, MO Plastic surgery stlcosmeticsurgery.com 1538505250
Dr. Gaurav Bharti, MD, FACS · #194 Charlotte, NC Plastic surgery hkbsurgery.com
Dr. John Connors, MD, FACS · #195 Alpharetta, GA Plastic surgery plasticsurgerygroupatl.com 1649252263
Dr. Scott Miller, MD, FACS · #196 La Jolla, CA Plastic surgery millercosmeticsurgery.com 1659482586
Dr. Alberico Sessa, MD · #197 Sarasota, FL Oral and maxillofacial surgery sarasotasurgicalarts.com 1629166111
Dr. William P. Mack, MD · #198 Tampa, FL Oculoplastic surgery mackmd.com 1679570816
Dr. Hamad Alharbi, MD, DDS, MS, FRCD(C) · #199 McLean, VA drhamadalharbi.com 1013251065
Dr. Jason Martin, MD · #200 Denver, CO Plastic surgery jasonmartinmd.com
Dr. Grace Lee Peng, M.D. · #226 Beverly Hills, CA Facial plastic surgery graceleepengmd.com 1508107475
Dr. Leo R. McCafferty, MD, FACS · #262 Pittsburgh, PA Plastic surgery mccaffertymd.com 1730182429
Dr. Amir Karam, MD · #274 San Diego, CA Facial plastic surgery drkaram.com 1326079765
Dr. Daniel Becker, MD, FACS · #275 Sewell, NJ Facial plastic surgery beckerplastics.com 1316975220
Dr. Al Aly, MD · #389 Dallas, TX Plastic surgery alyplasticsurgery.com

Boards and societies

A board certifies a surgeon by examination; a society admits members and runs meetings; a fellowship trains surgeons after residency. Each row links to the entry on the boards and societies page and to the organization's own site.

Surgical specialties that perform facelifts

Plastic surgeons, facial plastic surgeons and oculoplastic surgeons perform facelifts in the US; who performs facelifts explains the training behind each.

Facelift meetings

Meetings where surgeons teach facelift technique, with the organization that runs each one.

Journals in the facelift research

The journals that publish the facelift papers on the research pages, with their Wikidata items and ISSNs.

Facelift surgeons by state

Each state page lists the top facelift surgeons practicing in that state, on a map.