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Why Patients Fly to Kentucky for His Facelifts — T Gerald O'Daniel, MD

Catherine Maley · 2026-06-19 · 46 minutes

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📕 *Get Catherine's New Book: Plastic Surgery Practice Pearls:* https://bit.ly/4cZNSuD 📅 *Schedule a Practice Performance Audit:* https://bit.ly/4dC2znZ ⬇️ ➡️ *T Gerald O'Daniel, MD, shares his recipe for success and why patients fly to Kentucky for his facelifts from all over the world.* Hello, and welcome to "Beauty and the Biz," where we'll discuss the business and marketing side of plastic surg

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.

The technique, its anatomy and the papers behind it

New research on facelift technique, general

Recent studies on the subject of the video, each with a plain summary where one is written.

2026
How to Optimally Prepare the Patient for a Facelift Procedure
Mariani M, Fabbri M, Serra PL, Botti C, Botti G · Facial Plast Surg · PMID 41183544
2026
Use of Nerve Integrity Monitoring (NIM) in Facelifts
Wongkietkachorn A, Hah WWH, Wongkietkachorn N · Plast Reconstr Surg · PMID 42085580
2026
Epidemiological and Economic Factors in Facelift Surgery in the USA: A Retrospective Multi-center Analysis
Knoedler L, Lellouch AG, Aguglia R, Sadati K, Knoedler S, Kehrer A, et al. · Aesthetic Plast Surg · PMID 40897962
2026
Evaluating the Time of Maximal Vasoconstrictive Effect of Epinephrine in Facelift Surgery
Tarabishy S, Meyers A, Kragel MC, Janssen PL, Zins JE · Aesthet Surg J · PMID 40692271
2026
Facelift Randomized Controlled Trials Compliance With CONSORT Checklist: A Systematic Review
Yousif YF, Jamel WA, Perez H R, Farooq O, Balcı EB, de la Torre V, et al. · Aesthet Surg J Open Forum · PMID 41847318
2026
Evaluating the Quality of Rhytidectomy-Related Content Posted on Social Media: Facelift Patient Information on TikTok
Szymczak A, Park AC, Benjamin A, Eggerstedt M, Meleca JB, Sidle DM, et al. · Facial Plast Surg Aesthet Med · PMID 40474785
2026
Facelift Photo Quality on Social Media: Prevalence of Potentially Misleading Before-and-After Images
Mehta MP, Eskandari S, Long WE, Neptune N, Sethna AB, Chou DW · Facial Plast Surg Aesthet Med · PMID 40351156