Dr. Ashley Boustany, MD

Training and board certification

Source for all rows: drboustany.com/about/dr-ashley-boustany/

• Board certification, as the site states it: "Diplomate of the American Board of Plastic Surgery."
• Instructor in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Harvard Medical School faculty.
• Alpha Omega Alpha, Phi Beta Kappa and Mortar Board National Honor Society.
• Peer-reviewed articles on face and neck lifts, rhinoplasty, breast reconstruction and cleft lip; writing book chapters on neck lifts and rhinoplasty.

Facelift and neck lift work

• Facelift options. The page lists full facelift, SMAS facelift, deep plane facelift (beneath the SMAS, repositioning muscle and fat pads), mini facelift and lower facelift (facelift).
• Procedure. Performed in a Boston surgical facility, often under general anesthesia, with local anesthesia and IV sedation in select cases; patients go home the same day (facelift).
• Mini facelift. Small incisions around the ears; return to normal activities within 7 to 10 days (mini facelift).
• Neck lift. Options named: neck liposuction, a neck lift with incisions beneath the chin and behind the earlobe, and platysmaplasty for vertical neck bands (neck lift).
• Recovery statements. Mild swelling and bruising for the first two weeks; recovery around six weeks with most daily activities at two weeks (facelift). Neck lift: work after a week; results visible in four to six weeks (neck lift). The face and neck lift aftercare sheet: most sutures out at 1 week and the rest at 2 weeks; light jogging at 4 weeks; higher intensity exercise at 6 weeks; head wrap 23 hours a day for 2 weeks (aftercare PDF).
• Prices. The facelift page gives Boston averages: surgeon's fee $8,000 to $15,000+, anesthesia $1,000 to $2,000, facility $1,500 to $3,000, pre-op labs and medications $300 to $600 (facelift).
• Gallery. The face gallery shows rhinoplasty cases, one face and neck lift case and one eyelid case; fat grafting and otoplasty tabs have no photos posted (face gallery).

Other facial procedures

Upper and lower blepharoplasty, with fat relocation for under-eye hollows; stitches out after a week; eyelid surgery in Boston "typically ranges from $5,000 to $12,000 or more" (eyelid surgery). Endoscopic, temporal, pretrichial and coronal brow lift (brow lift). Buccal fat removal, chin augmentation and facial fat grafting (other facial procedures), plus rhinoplasty and otoplasty.

Practice

Not verified: medical school and college names. Prices on the facelift page are stated as Boston averages, not a personal quote.