Training and board certification
Source for all rows: beverlyhillscenter.com/dr-ben-talei/
| Stage | Detail |
|---|---|
| College | University of California, Los Angeles; degree in physiological sciences |
| Medical school | University of California, San Diego School of Medicine |
| Residency | Head and neck surgery, Columbia University, Cornell University and New York Presbyterian Hospital; chief resident at Columbia and Cornell |
| Fellowship | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center |
| Fellowship | Facial plastic and reconstructive surgery, New York Center for Facial Plastic & Laser Surgery |
| Fellowship | Vascular Birthmark Institute of New York, under Dr. Milton Waner |
- Board certification, as the site states it: "dual board certified in facial plastic and reconstructive surgery." The site does not name the boards.
- International Professor of facial plastic surgery, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Mexico.
- Editorial board, Modern Aesthetics magazine; Advisory Chair, Los Angeles County Medical Association; member, Beverly Hills Health & Wellness Committee.
- Publications listed on the bio page include "Vectorial Analysis of Deep Plane Face and Neck Lift" (Aesthetic Surgery Journal, 2024), "The Mastoid Crevasse and 3-Dimensional Considerations in Deep Plane Neck Lifting" (Aesthetic Surgery Journal, 2024) and "Vertical Neck Lifting" (Facial Plastic Surgery Clinics of North America, 2014, Jacono AA and Talei B).
Facelift and neck lift work
- Deep plane facelift. The page describes elevating the skin only slightly, working beneath the SMAS and releasing the retaining ligaments from lateral to medial, with the release extended into the lateral neck (deep-plane-facelift).
- AuraLyft. Named on the site as his extended deep plane face and neck lift, "also referred to as the SMART lift"; the AuraLyft page states one procedure can address the neck, jawline, cheeks, area beneath the eyes and temporal region (auralyft).
- Awake facelift. Mini and complete facelifts performed under local anesthesia, with sedation or general anesthesia available (awake-and-painless-facelift).
- Mini lift. Deep plane mini lift page (deep-plane-mini-lift).
- Neck lift. Options listed: deep plane neck lift, platysmaplasty, cervicoplasty and a weekend neck lift; the page cites his published work on the mastoid crevasse and vertical neck lifting (neck-lift-surgery).
- Weekend neck lift. Minimal-incision option combining chin augmentation and submental liposuction (weekend-neck-lift).
Galleries (all returned HTTP 200 on 2026-09-26):
- Face and neck: AuraLyft cases, some combined with brow, eyelid, lip lift or rhinoplasty, front and side views (face-neck-before-afters).
- AuraLyft (auralyft-before-afters).
- Weekend neck lift (weekend-necklift-before-afters).
Practice
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Practice | Beverly Hills Center for Plastic & Laser Surgery |
| Address | RoxSan Medical Building, 465 N Roxbury Dr, #750, Beverly Hills, CA 90210 (contact) |
| Phone | (310) 288-0641 |
| Website | https://www.beverlyhillscenter.com/ |
| Other physicians listed | Robert Cohen, Hedyeh Ziai, Mehdi Sina (about-us) |
| instagram.com/drbentalei | |
| YouTube | YouTube channel |
| facebook.com/DrBenTalei |
Not verified: the queue lists FACS; the pages checked do not print FACS.