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Top 500
#52
Score
51.3/100

Dr. Mark Beaty, MD

Mark M. Beaty, MD is a facial plastic surgeon at Beaty Facial Plastic Surgery and MedSpa, with offices in Alpharetta and Midtown Atlanta, Georgia (contact). His site describes the ProLIFT (Progressive Limited Incision Facelift Technique), which he developed, plus deep plane and preservation deep plane facelifts and neck lift with submental liposuction (facelift).

Practice
2710 Old Milton Parkway, Suite 175, Alpharetta, GA 30009
Phone
(770) 273-0037
Website
beatymd.com
Specialty
Facial plastic surgery
Teaches at
Reaching New Peaks in Facial Plastic Surgery: Winter Symposium 2026
Newest paper
Facial Plast Surg Clin North Am, 2014
Lectures
Videos of the talks
A blonde woman wearing a white hat smiling

Training and board certification

Source for all rows: beatymd.com/about-us/facial-plastic-surgeon-atlanta-ga/

Stage Detail
Medical school University of Kentucky College of Medicine, highest honors; D. Kay Clawson award
Residency Otolaryngology, University of Iowa; chief resident
Fellowship Facial plastic surgery, Emory University affiliated with Buckhead Facial Plastic Surgery, with Dr. Wallace K. Dyer
  • Board certification, as the site states it: "double board-certified facial plastic surgeon." The page names election to the American Board of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and service as a board examiner; the second board is not named.
  • Private practice since 1999, first at Milton Hall Surgical Associates; founded Beaty Facial Plastic Surgery in 2011.
  • AAFPRS: immediate past Southern Regional Director on the board of directors; nominated as a candidate for President.
  • Published the ProLIFT technique in Facial Plastic Surgery Clinics of North America, spring 2014; facelift chapter in Dr. Richard Gentile's 2011 book.
  • Speaker for Allergan, Syneron-Candela, Rohrer Aesthetics and Merz.

Facelift and neck lift work

  • ProLIFT. Facelift and neck procedure in which incision length, dissection and tissue anchoring are decided by intraoperative analysis of each tissue plane; the page states it is not a mini facelift (facelift).
  • Deep plane facelift. Releases the SMAS and retaining ligaments and moves them with the skin as one unit in a vertical vector; offered for moderate to advanced facial aging. A preservation deep plane facelift and a minimal incision facelift are also described (same page).
  • Neck lift. Addresses platysmal banding; usually paired with submental jowl liposuction (SMJ) through a small incision under the chin; 2-4 hours; general anesthesia or local anesthesia with sedation; most are outpatient (neck lift).
  • Recovery, as printed. Facelift: "Most patients can return to work by the second or third week after surgery"; swelling can come and go for a few months. Neck lift: most swelling and bruising subsides within one week; sutures removed at one week; work and social activities after two weeks.
  • Prices. None published.

Galleries (HTTP 200 on 2026-09-30), each with before-and-after photographs:

Other facial procedures

The site lists blepharoplasty (blepharoplasty), brow lift (brow lift), rhinoplasty and revision rhinoplasty, fat grafting, buccal fat removal, lip lift, otoplasty, facial implants, FaceTite (FaceTite) and laser skin resurfacing (laser resurfacing).

Practice

Field Value
Practice Beaty Facial Plastic Surgery and MedSpa
Alpharetta 2710 Old Milton Parkway, Suite 175, Alpharetta, GA 30009; (770) 273-0037
Atlanta 1100 Peachtree Street NE, Suite 850, Atlanta, GA 30309; (770) 753-0053
Website https://www.beatymd.com/
Other physician listed Dr. Laura Beaty
Instagram instagram.com/beatyfacialplasticsurgery
YouTube youtube.com/user/DrMarkBeaty
Facebook facebook.com/beatymd
TikTok tiktok.com/@beatyfps

Not verified: the second board behind "double board-certified" is not named on the pages checked.

Practice location and recovery

From beatymd.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 Georgia

Recovery, in the practice's words

TopicStatementDays
Swelling"Neck lift: "the majority of swelling and bruising will subside within one week."" Source7
Sutures out"Neck lift: "At your one-week follow-up, Dr. Beaty will remove all sutures."" Source7
Back to work"Neck lift: "Work and social activities may resume after two weeks."" Source14
Back to work"Most patients can return to work by the second or third week after surgery" Source21
Swelling"swelling can come and go, especially in the evening, for a few months." Source

Why #52: the score, line by line

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

SignalPointsOfSource
Research11.6303 facelift and neck lift papers in PubMed, 0 since 2021
Teaching16.7254 meetings taught from 2023 on
Published work2020facelift page; before-and-after gallery
Leadership015none on the society pages read
Recognition310Newsweek facelift list 2026
Score51.3100#52 in the Top 500

Meetings taught

Facelift, neck and facial rejuvenation sessions Dr. Mark Beaty taught to other surgeons, newest first.

2026
Reaching New Peaks in Facial Plastic Surgery: Winter Symposium 2026
, USA · Double Sail Modification in Deep Plane Facelift; Panel: Title TBA
2026
Global Aesthetics Conference 2026 (Miami Beach), moderator
Session moderator, Saturday November 7 7:30 AM block: Lessons Learned With Facelift Complications Over The Past 30 Years; My Preferred Method Of Facelifting Using A Progressive Advancement Suturing Technique; The Fusion Lift-Combining The Mid Facelift And Deep Plane Facelift
2026
Global Aesthetics Conference 2026 (Miami Beach), panelist
FACE LIFT COMPLICATIONS panel (Saturday November 7, 12:15 PM)
2025
Global Aesthetics Conference 2025 (Miami Beach), moderator
Session moderator, Saturday November 1 7:30 AM block: The Evolution of Lower Face Contouring: A Modern Surgical Algorithm; Enhancing Facelift Results With Midface Fat Transfer; How the Facial Shape Can Interfere With the Choice of the Facelift Technique
2025
Global Aesthetics Conference 2025 (Miami Beach), speaker
Combining Deep Neck and Extended Deep Plane Facelift Techniques: Completion of the Platysmal Hammock
2025
Global Aesthetics Conference 2025 (Miami Beach), speaker
Top Ten Tips for Controlling the Vector in Facelifting
2025
AAFPRS Annual Meeting 2025, speaker
Double Sail Technique to Improve Vector Control of the Neck
2024
AAFPRS Rhinoplasty & Facial Rejuvenation Meeting 2024, speaker
Combining Deep Neck Lift and Facelift to Maximize Jawline Definition
2024
AAFPRS Rhinoplasty & Facial Rejuvenation Meeting 2024, speaker
Does Regenerative Skin Preparation Improve Facelift Results?

Facelift and neck research

Papers with Dr. Mark Beaty as an author, newest first. Search PubMed.

2014
A progressive approach to neck rejuvenation
Beaty MM · Facial Plast Surg Clin North Am · PMID 24745381
2014
Neck rejuvenation
Hamilton MM, Beaty MM · Facial Plast Surg Clin North Am · PMID 24745391

Sources

Facts from beatymd.com were read 2026-09-30.