Dr. Christopher Chang, MD

Training and board certification

Source for all rows: congressionalplasticsurgery.com/about/dr-chang/

• Board certification, as the site states it: "a Diplomate of the American Board of Plastic Surgery and is board-certified."
• Co-author of over 80 peer-reviewed articles, abstracts and book chapters.
• Research at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda National Naval Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children's Hospital, the NYU plastic surgery laboratory and Yale University School of Medicine.
• Involved in national meetings of ASPS, ASAPS, the American Society of Maxillofacial Surgeons and the American Cleft Lip and Palate Association.

Facelift and neck lift work

• Deep plane facelift. The page contrasts it with an SMAS facelift: the SMAS is separated from the underlying muscles and lifted without tension. Outpatient, local anesthesia with IV sedation, about two hours; back to work by two weeks; moderate exercise at three weeks, strenuous at four to six weeks; complete results at about six months (deep plane facelift).
• Facelift. General anesthesia in an accredited facility; incisions around the ears; deeper facial tissues lifted and repositioned (facelift).
• Mini facelift. SMAS technique, general anesthesia or IV sedation, about one to one and a half hours; ten days to two weeks off work (mini facelift).
• Revision facelift. Separate page (revision facelift).
• Neck lift. Incisions under the chin, behind the ears or both; platysma tightened and sutured; outpatient (neck lift).
• Deep neck lift. General anesthesia; incision under the chin; deep fat excised; digastric muscles tightened, submandibular salivary glands reduced, platysma tightened; normal routine after about one week; no strenuous exercise for two weeks; results at four to six months (deep neck lift).
• Prices. None published.
• Galleries. Facelift, neck lift. Cases are not attributed to a surgeon; the practice also lists Dr. Hillary Jenny, who performs facelifts (Dr. Jenny).

Other facial procedures

The site offers upper and lower blepharoplasty (eyelid; gallery), brow lift including a coronal approach (brow lift; gallery), CO2 laser resurfacing (CO2 laser), lip lift, chin augmentation, facial fat transfer and rhinoplasty.

Practice

Not verified: anesthesia for facelift; the deep plane page says local anesthesia with IV sedation, the facelift page says general anesthesia.