Dr. Adam Kolker, MD, FACS

Training and board certification

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• Board certification, as the site states it: "Board Certified, American Board of Plastic Surgery" and "Board Certified, American Board of Surgery."
• Fellow of the American College of Surgeons; member of ASPS, ASAPS, the American Society of Maxillofacial Surgeons and the Northeastern Society of Plastic Surgeons; Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
• Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery (Plastic Surgery), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
• More than 20 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters.

Facelift and neck lift work

• Techniques listed. Short scar facelift; classical facelift with deep tissue repositioning; facelift with neck lift and platysma repair through an incision beneath the chin; SMAS plication; SMASectomy; SMAS flap; MACS lift with purse string sutures (facelift).
• Anesthesia and setting. Deep sedation (twilight) or general anesthesia by a board-certified anesthesiologist; most facelift patients have a private duty nurse overnight (facelift).
• Facelift recovery, as printed. Drains removed the first morning; bruising and swelling 7 to 10 days; sutures out at 7 days; light exercise at 7 days, unrestricted at 4 weeks; many return to work by 2 weeks (facelift).
• Neck lift. Options: liposuction only, neck lift with platysmaplasty with or without liposuction, and classical neck lift. Back to work: 4 to 7 days (liposuction only), 7 to 10 days (platysmaplasty), 10 to 14 days (classical neck lift); compression usually two weeks (neck lift).
• Prices. None published.
• Galleries. Facelift (front, oblique and side views), neck lift, neck liposuction.

Other facial procedures

The site offers upper and lower eyelid surgery (eyelid; gallery), brow lift including a coronal approach (brow lift), CO2 and Fraxel laser resurfacing (laser), facial fat transfer (fat transfer), chin augmentation, otoplasty and rhinoplasty.

Practice