Training and board certification
- Board certification, as the site states it: "dual board certifications in plastic and general surgery" (bio); the home page says "double board-certified plastic and general surgeon" (home). The boards are not named.
- Medical school, residency and fellowship are not named on the pages read.
- Experience: 32 years per the bio page; more than 30 years per the facelift page; over 40 years and 50,000+ procedures per the home page.
- Studied architecture before medicine; early career included skin cancer reconstruction, limb reattachment and trauma repair (bio).
- Curated the 2009 New York City exhibit "I Am Art"; co-hosts the podcast Once Upon a Surgery.
Facelift and neck lift work
Source: facelift
- Techniques. Traditional facelift addressing skin and the SMAS; deep plane facelift addressing deeper layers. The bio page also lists mini facelifts (bio).
- Procedure. Usually local anesthesia with an oral sedative, general anesthesia on request; incisions around the ear or along the hairline; ligaments released and underlying layers lifted as a unit; fat repositioned and skin redraped.
- Neck. The facelift page covers lifting the lower face and neck and removing neck fat; no separate neck lift page was found.
- Recovery stated on the site. Light activities and desk work after 1-2 weeks; no strenuous activity until cleared.
- Prices. None published; a cost estimate is given at consultation.
Galleries (HTTP 200 on 2026-09-30): facelift (26 cases listed), fat grafting.
Other facial procedures
The site offers upper and lower blepharoplasty (blepharoplasty), brow lift (brow lift), fat grafting (fat grafting), chin implants, rhinoplasty and laser resurfacing. Galleries: eyelid, brow lift.
Practice
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Practice | Berlet Plastic Surgery |
| Cedar Grove, NJ | 908 Pompton Ave # A1, Cedar Grove, New Jersey 07009; (973) 857-7757 (Cedar Grove) |
| Manhattan, NY | 1016 5th Ave Ground Floor, New York 10028; (332) 232-5630 (Manhattan) |
| Southampton, NY | 40 W Main St, Southampton, New York 11968; (631) 259-2477 (Southampton) |
| Website | https://berletplasticsurgery.com/ |
| instagram.com/berletplasticsurgery | |
| facebook.com/BerletPlasticSurgery | |
| TikTok | tiktok.com/@berletplasticsurg |
| YouTube | youtube.com/@onceuponasurgery |
Not verified: medical school, residency, fellowship and the names of the certifying boards; years of experience (three different figures on the site).
