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Top 500
#124
Score
35/100

Dr. Joe Gryskiewicz, MD

Joe Gryskiewicz, MD is a plastic surgeon at Gryskiewicz Twin Cities Cosmetic Surgery, with offices in Burnsville and Edina, Minnesota (bio, contact). The practice offers deep plane facelift and neck lift surgery, but those pages name his partner, Dr. John Luck, as the surgeon; the face work the site names for Dr. Joe is upper blepharoplasty and the Selfie Lift (facelift, eyelid).

Practice
303 E Nicollet Boulevard #330, Burnsville, MN 55337
Phone
952-435-0177
Website
tcplasticsurgery.com
Specialty
Plastic surgery
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Group practice

Gryskiewicz Twin Cities Cosmetic Surgery is a group practice: tcplasticsurgery.com lists 3 surgeons. Different surgeons at the practice do different operations, so ask for the surgeon who does facelifts by name. The practice's facelift pages and gallery name Dr. John Luck. The facelift and neck lift pages name Dr. John Luck as the surgeon; 11 of 16 facelift gallery cases say Procedure Performed by Dr. Luck and none name Dr. Gryskiewicz; the practice also lists Dr. Kristen Pan. Source

Training and board certification

Stage Detail Source
College Bachelor's degree in nursing, University of St. Thomas, 1972 (RN program, University of St. Catherine) bio
Medical school University of Minnesota Medical School, 1978 bio
Residency Seven years of surgical residency, University of Wisconsin Health Sciences Center bio
  • Board certification, as the site states it: "certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery"; certificate of special training in cosmetic surgery from ASAPS (bio).
  • Fellow of the American College of Surgeons; member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, The Aesthetic Society and The Rhinoplasty Society (eyelid page).
  • Past president of the Rhinoplasty Society; inducted into the International Society of Clinical Plastic Surgeons in 2003; former ASPS spokesperson; Chairman of the Emerging Trends Task Force (bio).
  • Special interests listed: breast augmentation, rhinoplasty, gynecomastia, labiaplasty and body contouring (bio).
  • Hospital and surgery center affiliations: Fairview Ridges Hospital, Fairview Southdale Hospital, Centennial Lakes Surgery Center (bio).

Facelift and neck lift work

  • Attribution. The facelift and neck lift pages name Dr. John Luck throughout (25 and 12 mentions); Dr. Luck's page lists his MD and plastic surgery residency at Johns Hopkins (Dr. Luck). The pages read do not state that Dr. Gryskiewicz performs facelifts or neck lifts.
  • Facelift page. Deep plane facelift for most patients; high SMAS, SMASectomy or SMAS plication for others; a Quick Recovery Mini Facelift; CO2 laser resurfacing at the end of each facelift (facelift).
  • Neck lift page. Works beneath the platysma muscle and fascia through an incision of about one inch under the chin; removes deep fat, and excess submandibular gland tissue in some patients (neck lift).
  • Selfie Lift. Offered by Dr. Gryskiewicz and Dr. Luck: neck and jawline liposuction, chin implants or jawline filler. The page cites Dr. Joe's series of 132 neck and jawline liposuction patients in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 2003 (Selfie Lift).
  • Recovery, per the facelift page. Drain out within a day or two; sutures out at one week; most swelling and bruising gone within three weeks; work within one to two weeks; no exercise for at least one month; ready for major events within three months.
  • Prices. None published; a cost estimate is given at the appointment.
  • Gallery. Facelift gallery with 16 cases; 11 are captioned "Procedure Performed by Dr. Luck", none name Dr. Joe (facelift gallery).

Other facial procedures

Upper blepharoplasty is described as performed by "Dr. Joe, Dr. Luck, and Dr. Pan"; lower eyelid surgery by Dr. Luck and Dr. Pan (eyelid). Brow lift (Dr. Luck), CO2 laser resurfacing, lip lift, rhinoplasty, chin implants and buccal fat removal are also listed. Galleries: eyelid (12 cases), brow lift (4), CO2 laser (5), lip lift (7) (eyelid, brow, CO2, lip lift).

Practice

Field Value
Practice Gryskiewicz Twin Cities Cosmetic Surgery
Burnsville 303 E Nicollet Boulevard #330, Burnsville, MN 55337; 952-435-0177
Edina 7373 France Avenue South #408, Minneapolis, MN 55435; (952) 842-1000
Website https://www.tcplasticsurgery.com/
Other surgeons John Luck, MD; Dr. Pan (named on the eyelid page)
Social Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok

Not verified: the site does not print FACS after his name.

Practice location and recovery

From tcplasticsurgery.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 Minnesota

Recovery, in the practice's words

TopicStatementDays
Drains"Your dressings and a small surgical drain will be removed within a day or two of surgery" Source2
Sutures out"sutures removed a week after surgery" Source7
Back to work"Most patients can return to work within a week or two of surgery." Source14
Swelling"you can typically expect most swelling and bruising to subside within three weeks of surgery" Source21
Exercise"Exercise should be avoided for at least one month following your facelift." Source30
Final result"you'll be ready for professional photography and major events within three months of your surgery" Source90

Why #124: the score, line by line

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

SignalPointsOfSource
Research0300 facelift and neck lift papers in PubMed, 0 since 2021
Teaching0250 meetings taught from 2023 on
Published work2020facelift page; before-and-after gallery
Leadership1515ASERF, President 2012-2013
Recognition010not on the Newsweek facelift lists
Score35100#124 in the Top 500