Dr. Iliana Sweis, MD, FACS

Training and board certification

Source: about unless noted.

• Board certification, as the site states it: "holds certification from the American Board of Plastic Surgery."
• Former president, Illinois Society of Plastic Surgeons.
• Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery, University of Illinois in Chicago.
• Author of Outsmarting Mother Nature: A Woman's Complete Guide to Plastic Surgery (Praeger, 2010). Publications include a 2023 Aesthetic Surgery Journal Open Forum survey on repeated panfacial filler injections and facelift outcomes, and a 2018 Aesthetic Surgery Journal paper on neuromodulators before upper blepharoplasty and brow lift (publications).
• U.S. patents on hyaluronidase compositions and an assessment scale for periorbital puffiness, and a marking template for injections (patents).
• Jordan's Gold Medal of Highest Distinction (1996), for volunteer surgery on children in Jordan (honors).

Facelift and neck lift work

• SMAS face lift. The page explains that modern face lifting places tension on the SMAS layer rather than the skin, and names three ways to tighten it: sewing the SMAS on its surface, cutting out a wedge and closing it, or cutting into, elevating and repositioning the SMAS (face lift).
• Neck. Completing the face lift includes neck liposuction alone or with tightening of the neck muscles, through a small incision beneath the chin. There is no separate neck lift page.
• Incisions. Placed in the ear crease or just inside the ear, into the temple hair and behind the ear, preserving the sideburn tuft and the hairline behind the ear.
• Recovery. Approximately two weeks; most bruising and swelling can be covered with makeup after seven to ten days; scars fade over 6 to 12 months (face lift).
• Prices. None published.

Galleries (HTTP 200 on 2026-09-30): the gallery page holds face lift, eyelid, rhinoplasty and FaceTite cases. Face lift cases 1 to 7 each have their own page; case 1 describes a neck lift with platysmaplasty and a SMAS face lift, with photos 7 months after surgery.

Other facial procedures

The site offers upper and lower blepharoplasty, including transconjunctival lower blepharoplasty (eyelid), endoscopic and open brow lift (brow lift), rhinoplasty, chin implant, otoplasty, FaceTite radiofrequency tightening of the lower face and neck (FaceTite), Morpheus8, EMFACE, fillers and Botox.

Practice

Not verified: fellowship training, year of board certification and years in practice are not stated on the pages read.