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Top 500
#91
Score
40.4/100

Dr. Bardia Amirlak, M.D., F.A.C.S.

Bardia Amirlak, M.D., F.A.C.S. is a plastic surgeon and UT Southwestern faculty member whose private practice, Amirlak Plastic Surgery, is at 1801 Inwood Road, 5th Floor, Dallas, Texas (directions). His facelift page states he performs high SMAS, deep plane and endoscopic facelifts, and the site has a neck lift page (facelift).

Practice
1801 Inwood Road, 5th Floor, Dallas, TX 75235
Phone
972-972-4708
Website
amirlakplasticsurgery.com
Specialty
Plastic surgery
Teaches at
Dallas Cosmetic Medicine & Surgery Meeting 2026
Newest paper
Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open, 2019
A smiling mature woman posing with hand on face

Training and board certification

Source for all rows: amirlakplasticsurgery.com/about/dr-bardia-amirlak/

Stage Detail
Residency General surgery, Creighton University, Omaha, five years; Chief Surgical Resident
Fellowship Hand and microsurgery, Kleinert's Institute, Louisville, one year
Plastic surgery Plastic and reconstructive surgery, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, three years
  • Board certification, as the site states it: "triple-board certified"; the home page names the American Board of Plastic Surgery in a list with the American College of Surgeons and the American Society of Plastic Surgery (home). The other two boards are not named.
  • UT Southwestern Department of Plastic Surgery: Assistant Professor from 2010; Director of Residency Cosmetic Clinic 2012; Medical Director of the plastic surgery clinics and associate professor 2015.
  • Director of the cosmetic surgery lab for the Annual Dallas Cosmetic Symposium; lecturer at the Dallas Rhinoplasty Symposium.
  • Operates mainly at the Outpatient Surgical Center (UTSW) and Clements University Hospital.
  • Medical school is not named on the bio page.

Facelift and neck lift work

  • Facelift. The page lists three types: high SMAS (for the midface and fallen cheeks), deep plane (skin and SMAS lifted together) and endoscopic (small incisions, for midface and forehead). "Patients usually need about two weeks of downtime before returning to normal activities" (facelift).
  • Neck lift. Platysmaplasty through an incision below the chin and cervicoplasty through incisions around the ear lobe into the scalp; liposuction sometimes added; 2 to 4 hours, general anesthesia or local with sedation, usually outpatient (neck lift).
  • Neck lift recovery, per the site. Sutures removed after 7 to 10 days; swelling and bruising up to 10 days; work within 2 weeks; strenuous activity avoided for 4 to 6 weeks.
  • Price. No prices published.
  • Galleries. Facelift and neck lift (gallery), including cases labeled facelift with lower eyelid blepharoplasty and secondary neck and mid facelift; lower eyelid blepharoplasty (gallery).

Other facial procedures

The site lists blepharoplasty and lower blepharoplasty (blepharoplasty, lower), brow lift (brow lift), laser skin resurfacing (laser), rhinoplasty, mentoplasty, cheek augmentation, otoplasty, facial feminization and migraine surgery (home).

Practice

Field Value
Practice Amirlak Plastic Surgery
Address 1801 Inwood Road, 5th Floor, Dallas, TX 75235 (directions)
Phone 972-972-4708; contact page also lists 214-645-5560 (contact)
Recovery lodging Medallion Guest Suites
Website amirlakplasticsurgery.com
Social Instagram, Facebook

Not verified: the second and third boards behind "triple-board certified"; medical school.

Practice location and recovery

From amirlakplasticsurgery.com, read 2026-09-30. Prices and recovery times are quoted as the practice publishes them.

The marker carries the surgeon's Top 500 rank and sits on the practice's street address. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Top facelift surgeons in Texas

Recovery, in the practice's words

TopicStatementDays
Sutures out"Neck lift: Bandages covering incisions are removed after a few days; sutures are typically removed after 7 to 10 days." Source7
Swelling"Swelling and bruising from a neck lift can last up to 10 days." Source10
Back to work"Patients usually need about two weeks of downtime before returning to normal activities." Source14
Back to work"Neck lift: Most people return to work and other normal daily activities within 2 weeks" Source14
Exercise"Neck lift: More strenuous activities should be avoided for 4 to 6 weeks." Source28

Why #91: the score, line by line

Points come from sources read the same way for every surgeon. The method is on the methodology page.

SignalPointsOfSource
Research10.3302 facelift and neck lift papers in PubMed, 0 since 2021
Teaching4.2251 meetings taught from 2023 on
Published work2020facelift page; before-and-after gallery
Leadership015none on the society pages read
Recognition610Newsweek facelift list 2025, 2026
Score40.4100#91 in the Top 500

Meetings taught

Facelift, neck and facial rejuvenation sessions Dr. Bardia Amirlak taught to other surgeons, newest first.

2026
Dallas Cosmetic Medicine & Surgery Meeting (Mar 19-20) + Dallas Rhinoplasty Meeting (Mar 20-22) 2026
Dallas, TX, USA · The Lip Lift Refined; Controversies and Outcomes in Eyelid, Face and Neck Rejuvenation (panel); Interactive Anatomy Lab Dissection: Browlift/Blepharoplasty/Facelift; Deep Layer Facelift Techniques - How to Inject the Key Fat Compartments; Deep Neck Lift Techniques - Submandibular Gland Resection
2026
Dallas Cosmetic Medicine & Surgery Meeting 2026, panelist
Controversies and Outcomes in Eyelid, Face and Neck Rejuvenation (panel)
2026
Dallas Cosmetic Medicine & Surgery Meeting 2026, course director
Interactive Anatomy Lab Dissection (Browlift/Blepharoplasty/Facelift; Deep Layer Facelift Techniques; Deep Neck Lift Techniques - Submandibular Gland Resection)
2024
Dallas Cosmetic Medicine & Surgery Meeting 2024, course director
Interactive Anatomy Lab Dissection (Browlift/Blepharoplasty/Facelift; Deep Layer Facelift Techniques; Neck Lift Techniques)

Facelift and neck research

Papers with Dr. Bardia Amirlak as an author, newest first. Search PubMed.

2019
Unique Uses of SPY: High-risk Facelift
Kislevitz ML, Lu KB, Sanniec K, Amirlak B · Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open · PMID 31624665
2014
The differing adipocyte morphologies of deep versus superficial midfacial fat compartments: a cadaveric study
Wan D, Amirlak B, Giessler P, Rasko Y, Rohrich RJ, Yuan C, et al. · Plast Reconstr Surg · PMID 24445875

Sources

Facts from amirlakplasticsurgery.com were read 2026-09-30.