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Top 500
#157
Score
29.5/100

Dr. Brock D. Ridenour, MD, FACS

Brock D. Ridenour, MD, FACS is a facial plastic surgeon at Ridenour Plastic Surgery, 12460 Olive Blvd, St. Louis, Missouri, in private practice since 2003 (bio). His face and neck lift page names the extended deep plane facelift and deep plane neck lift as his preferred full facelift technique and also describes mid-facelift, lower facelift and neck lift (face and neck lift).

Practice
12460 Olive Blvd, 2nd Floor, St. Louis, MO 63141-6397
Phone
(314) 501.7946
Website
ridenourplasticsurgery.com
Specialty
Facial plastic surgery
Newest paper
Facial Plast Surg, 2009
A smiling woman with short gray hair posing indoors

Training and board certification

Source for all rows: ridenourplasticsurgery.com/about-dr-ridenour/

Stage Detail
College Yale University; honor and distinction in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Medical school Tulane University Medical School
Residency Head and Neck Surgery, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
Fellowship Facial Plastic Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle
  • Board certification, as the site states it: "board-certified by the American Board of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and the American Board of Otolaryngology."
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and the American College of Surgeons.
  • Formerly director of the Division of Facial Plastic Surgery, Washington University in St. Louis, for more than a decade; moved to St. Louis in 1992.
  • Author of book chapters and articles on facial cosmetic surgery and rhinoplasty.
  • The face and neck lift page states over 25 years of experience (face and neck lift).

Facelift and neck lift work

Source: face and neck lift

  • Full facelift. His preferred technique is the "extended deep plane facelift and deep plane neck lift"; incisions along the hairline, temples and around the ears.
  • Mid-facelift. Cheek lift with fat manipulation.
  • Lower facelift. Mouth and jawline; usually combined with a neck lift.
  • Neck lift. Treats jowls, muscle bands, double chin and excess skin.
  • Setting. In-office at Ridenour Plastic Surgery, an outpatient center, or Barnes West County Hospital.
  • Recovery stated on the site. Dressings removed the day after surgery; drains, if used, may also be removed then; visits at three to four days and at one week for suture removal. The page gives no back-to-work or exercise timeline.
  • Prices. None published; the page says costs are given at consultation.

Galleries (HTTP 200 on 2026-09-30): face and neck lift, fat transfer.

Other facial procedures

The site offers upper and lower blepharoplasty (eyelid surgery), laser and light treatments (lasers), facial implants, rhinoplasty and hairline lowering. Galleries: eyelid, brow lift, laser resurfacing.

Practice

Field Value
Practice Ridenour Plastic Surgery
Address 12460 Olive Blvd, 2nd Floor, St. Louis, MO 63141-6397 (contact)
Phone (314) 501.7946; fax (314) 878.8602
Website https://www.ridenourplasticsurgery.com/
Instagram instagram.com/ridenourplasticsurgery
Facebook facebook.com/RidenourPlasticSurgery
YouTube YouTube channel

Not verified: the bio page lists phone 314-501-7614, which differs from the contact page.

Practice location and recovery

From ridenourplasticsurgery.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 Missouri

Recovery, in the practice's words

TopicStatementDays
Drains"The day following your surgery, we will remove your dressings... If surgical drains have been used, these may also be removed." Source1
Sutures out"Patients are typically seen the day after surgery, three to four days later and again after one week for suture removal" Source7

Why #157: the score, line by line

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

SignalPointsOfSource
Research9.5302 facelift and neck lift papers in PubMed, 0 since 2021
Teaching0250 meetings taught from 2023 on
Published work2020facelift page; before-and-after gallery
Leadership015none on the society pages read
Recognition010not on the Newsweek facelift lists
Score29.5100#157 in the Top 500

Facelift and neck research

Papers with Dr. Brock D. Ridenour as an author, newest first. Search PubMed.

2009
Injectable calcium hydroxylapatite microspheres (Radiesse)
Ridenour B, Kontis TC · Facial Plast Surg · PMID 19415577
1992
Rhytidectomy: technique and complications
Larrabee WF, Ridenour BD · Am J Otolaryngol · PMID 1585980