Dr. Edward D. Buckingham, MD

Training and board certification

Source for all rows: Dr. Edward Buckingham bio

• Board certification, as the site states it: "Double board certified by The American Board of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and The American Board of Otolaryngology."
• AAFPRS Fellowship Director since 2014.
• Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, UTMB Galveston.
• Publications listed include "Incorporating Fat Grafting with Facelift Surgery" (Facial Plast Surg Clin N Am, 2020), "The Difficult Neck in Facelifting" (Facial Plast Surg, 2017) and a Z-plasty platysmaplasty video article (FPSAM Video Journal, 2024).

Facelift and neck lift work

• Deep plane facelift. The SMAS is separated from deeper structures over the masseter and midface and the facial ligaments released; the page describes a deep plane facelift "with platysma muscle suspension" anchored by internal suspension stitches (facelift).
• SMAS and limited incision facelifts. SMAS lifting ranges from plication to extended elevation; the limited incision lower facelift uses hairline and ear incisions without a chin incision (facelift, limited incision).
• Anesthesia. Mini lifts under oral sedation and local anesthesia; full facelifts usually under IV sedation; general anesthesia is generally not used.
• Neck lift. Liposuction or lipectomy with platysmaplasty through a 2 cm submental incision; skin excision around the ears or by direct excision with a geometric broken line closure (neck lift). Separate pages cover submentoplasty and submental microliposuction.
• Recovery, as printed. One to two weeks at home from work; sutures out at one week; bruising up to 14 days after more involved surgery; high-impact exercise at three weeks; final result around three months (facelift). Neck lift: social activity at 7-10 days and workouts at 14 days.
• Prices. None published; the consultation fee is credited toward surgery.

Galleries (HTTP 200 on 2026-09-30), each with before-and-after case photographs; cases are not attributed to individual surgeons on the pages checked:

• Facelift, limited incision facelift, neck lift, microliposuction, eyelid surgery, endoscopic brow lift, CO2 fractional laser.

Other facial procedures

The site lists blepharoplasty, forehead lift (brow lift), facial fat transfer, lip lift, chin augmentation, buccal fat excision, otoplasty, rhinoplasty, skin cancer reconstruction and CO2 laser resurfacing.

Practice