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Top 500
#65
Score
47.5/100

Dr. Kian Karimi, MD, FACS

Kian Karimi, MD, FACS is a facial plastic surgeon at 12301 Wilshire Blvd Suite #600, Los Angeles, California (drkian.com). His profile names the deep plane face lift and his micro neck lift among his procedures, and his gallery shows deep plane face and neck lift cases (profile, gallery).

Practice
12301 Wilshire Blvd Suite #600, Los Angeles, CA 90025
Phone
310-295-6422
Website
drkian.com
Specialty
Facial plastic surgery
Teaches at
AAFPRS Annual Meeting 2025
Newest paper
Clin Plast Surg, 2023
An elegant woman posing with hand under chin

Training and board certification

Source: drkian.com/profile unless noted.

  • 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 - Head & Neck Surgery."
  • Graduated from medical school at 23 with the Alpha Omega Alpha Award; Resident Teacher of the Year Award. The medical school and residency are not named.
  • Fellowship with Dr. Peter Adamson; the institution is not named.
  • Co-founder of the Los Angeles Multi-Specialty Cosmetic Academy (LA-MCA).
  • National medical director for CosmoFrance since 2012; the site states he has trained over 1,000 doctors (home).
  • 2011 John Orlando Roe award from the AAFPRS for "Ethical Considerations in Aesthetic Rhinoplasty"; over ten publications and a chapter on upper facial rejuvenation in Bailey's Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (research).
  • Team plastic surgeon for the LA Kings for nine seasons (home).

Facelift and neck lift work

  • Face lift. The face lift page describes lifting and tightening facial skin, soft tissue and muscle, without naming a technique; the profile page names the "Deep Plane Face Lift" (face lift, profile).
  • Micro neck lift. Described as less invasive than a traditional neck lift, often combined with other procedures to define the jaw and neckline (micro neck lift).
  • Other techniques named. Fat grafting with platelet-rich fibrin (PRF) and PDO threads.
  • Recovery, as printed. Face lift: "Most patients take up to two weeks off from work"; stitches removed around one week (face lift). Micro neck lift: "a week away from work and other daily activities" (micro neck lift).
  • Prices. None published.

Gallery (HTTP 200 on 2026-09-30):

  • Face and neck lift before and after, with captions including "Deep Plane Face & Neck Lift Before & After 3 Months" and "Lower Face Lift & Micro Neck Lift with Upper & Lower Blepharoplasty Before & After 11 Weeks" (face-and-neck-lift).

Other facial procedures

The site lists blepharoplasty, brow lift, rhinoplasty, revision rhinoplasty, NoseTune rhinoplasty, chin augmentation, otoplasty and PDO threads.

Practice

Field Value
Practice Dr. Kian Karimi
Address 12301 Wilshire Blvd Suite #600, Los Angeles, CA 90025 (contact)
Phone 310-295-6422
Website https://www.drkian.com/
Instagram instagram.com/drkian
YouTube youtube.com/c/rejuvamedicalaesthetics
Facebook facebook.com/drkian

Practice URL correction: the queue listed https://www.biospace.com/, an unrelated site. His own site is https://www.drkian.com/.

Practice location and recovery

From drkian.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 California

Recovery, in the practice's words

TopicStatementDays
Sutures out"Between that time and one-week post-surgery, patients are checked again then return to have their stitches removed." Source7
Back to work"Micro neck lift: "You can expect to spend a week away from work and other daily activities"" Source7
Back to work"Most patients take up to two weeks off from work to allow the incisions to heal and swelling and bruising to diminish." Source14

Why #65: the score, line by line

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

SignalPointsOfSource
Research19.1307 facelift and neck lift papers in PubMed, 4 since 2021
Teaching8.3252 meetings taught from 2023 on
Published work2020facelift page; before-and-after gallery
Leadership015none on the society pages read
Recognition010not on the Newsweek facelift lists
Score47.5100#65 in the Top 500

Meetings taught

Facelift, neck and facial rejuvenation sessions Dr. Kian Karimi taught to other surgeons, newest first.

2025
AAFPRS Annual Meeting 2025, moderator
PANEL DISCUSSION: Minimally Invasive Techniques - Is There a Measurable Impact on Deep Plane Facelift Outcomes?
2025
UCLA Aesthetic Eyelid and Facial Rejuvenation Masters Course 2025, faculty
Aesthetic Eyelid and Facial Rejuvenation Masters Course (cadaver dissection: blepharoplasty, forehead lift, midface lift, canthoplasty; didactic day)

Facelift and neck research

Papers with Dr. Kian Karimi as an author, newest first. Search PubMed.

2021
A Multicenter Study to Evaluate Subject Satisfaction With Two Treatments of AbobotulinumtoxinA a Year in the Glabellar Lines
Schlessinger J, Cohen JL, Shamban A, Jacob C, Karimi K, Maas C, et al. · Dermatol Surg · Randomized Controlled Trial · PMID 33165057
2017
2013
Objective assessment of perceived age reversal and improvement in attractiveness after aging face surgery
Zimm AJ, Modabber M, Fernandes V, Karimi K, Adamson PA · JAMA Facial Plast Surg · PMID 23907096