Dr. Benjamin Caughlin, MD, FACS

Training and board certification

Source: drbuccalfat.com/about-dr-caughlin/

• Board certification, as the site states it: "Double Board Certified Facial Plastic Surgeon"; the boards are not named.
• Director of facial plastic surgery, facial trauma and scar management, Head and Neck Surgery Department, Stroger Cook County; trains residents from Northwestern Memorial Hospital and the University of Illinois Medical Center.
• Clinical instructor, University of Illinois Department of Head and Neck Surgery.
• Performs the facial portions of gender-confirming surgery at the Jessie Brown VA (as printed).
• Published a buccal fat technique video as a surgical pearl in Facial Plastic Surgery and Aesthetic Medicine.
• Medical school, residency and fellowship are not named on the pages read.

Facelift and neck lift work

• Preservation facelift. Described as combining deep-plane techniques with minimal disruption of support structures; return to normal activities in 2 to 3 weeks. The consultation chooses among traditional, deep plane, mini and SMAS facelifts (facelift).
• SneakyLyft. His named mid-face, neck and jowl lift: preservation lifting with limited deep-plane repositioning, vertical platysmaplasty and micro-liposuction; incisions behind the hairline or under the chin; often under local or tumescent anesthesia; normal activities in 1 to 3 weeks. Prices: "$12,000–$18,000" without skin removal and "$22,000–$32,000" for the full procedure (SneakyLyft).
• Neck lift. Options listed: neck lift with incisions around the ears and possibly under the chin, mini neck lift, platysmaplasty through a chin incision, and cervicoplasty; normal activities in two to three weeks (neck lift). Neck liposculpting through an elevated skin flap from ear to ear (neck liposuction).
• Galleries. Each page shows one before-and-after image: facelift, facelift and neck lift, neck lift, SneakyLyft, facelift, neck lift and chin implant.

Other facial procedures

Buccal fat removal, jawline sculpting, chin and cheek augmentation, the Cheekago combination and FaceBBL micro-fat transfer (FaceBBL); brow lift and the pantyhose brow lift (brow lift, pantyhose brow lift); blepharoplasty appears in combination galleries.

Practice

Not verified: training institutions and board names. The SneakyLyft comparison table lists a deep plane facelift at "$50k–$150k" as a general comparison; it is not stated as his fee.