Dr. John Kim, MD, FACS

Training and board certification

Source for all items: bio

• Board certification, as the site states it: "a Board-Certified Plastic Surgeon in Chicago." The board is not named; residency and fellowship are not named.
• Clinical Director, Division of Plastic Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine; attending surgeon at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Prentice Women's Hospital.
• Over 200 articles and chapters, over 100 lectures and 16 issued patents; the bio names breast and body surgery as his area of innovation.
• ASPS roles: Chair of the Breast and Body Symposium, Chair of the Annual Program Breast Sub-committee, 2019-2020 Visiting Professor, Vice Chair of the Annual Meeting Committee.

Facelift and neck lift work

• Facelift. General anesthesia or IV sedation; incisions along the hairline and around the ears; underlying facial muscles and tissue lifted and repositioned, excess skin removed (facelift).
• Deep plane. The male facelift page describes a deep plane facelift that releases ligaments and lifts the SMAS in the midface (male deep plane facelift).
• Mini facelift. About two hours under local anesthesia or local with IV sedation; sutures out at about one week; swelling and bruising for two to four weeks (mini facelift).
• Neck lift. Options named: neck liposuction, cervicoplasty and platysmaplasty; a thin drainage tube may be used in the first days (neck lift).
• Facelift recovery, as printed. Ten to fourteen days off work with stitches removed in that window; bruising and swelling fade at 3 to 4 weeks; final results over several months.
• Prices. None published.
• Gallery. 20 facelift and neck lift cases; captions include facelift and neck lift (8), face and neck lift with fat grafting, lower facelift and neck lift, mini face and neck lift, and one "Deep plane face and secondary neck lift" with fat grafting and upper lip lift; one case is shown 11 years after surgery (facelift gallery).

Other facial procedures

Blepharoplasty and brow lift pages; Mohs and skin cancer reconstruction; Botox and fillers (eyelid, brow lift). Eyelid gallery with 9 cases, including upper and lower blepharoplasty and one with ptosis repair (eyelid gallery).

Practice

Not verified: residency, fellowship and the certifying board are not named on the pages read.