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Top 500
#183
Score
29/100

Dr. Mary Gingrass, MD

Mary Gingrass, MD is a plastic surgeon certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery at The Plastic Surgery Center of Nashville, 1915 State St, Nashville, Tennessee, a practice she shares with Dr. Melinda Haws (bio, contact). Her bio says she currently focuses on breast and body contouring; the site has no facelift or neck lift procedure page, but its facelift gallery includes cases attributed to her (facelift gallery).

Practice
1915 State St, Nashville, TN 37203
Phone
(615) 467-6777
Website
theplasticsurgerycenterofnashville.com
Specialty
Plastic surgery
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Group practice

The Plastic Surgery Center of Nashville is a group practice: theplasticsurgerycenterofnashville.com lists 2 surgeons. Different surgeons at the practice do different operations, so ask for the surgeon who does facelifts by name. The practice's facelift pages name Dr. Mary Gingrass and Dr. Melinda Haws. The site has no facelift procedure page; of 10 facelift gallery cases, 6 name Dr. Mary Gingrass as surgeon and 4 name Dr. Melinda Haws. Source

Training and board certification

Source for all rows: theplasticsurgerycenterofnashville.com/about/the-doctors/dr-mary-gingrass/

Stage Detail
Medical school Medical College of Wisconsin, 1989
Residency General surgery and plastic surgery, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
Fellowship Nashville Plastic Surgery; aesthetic surgery, breast surgery and body contouring
  • Board certification, as the site states it: "board certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery." Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.
  • Member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons and the Aesthetic Society; inducted into the American Association of Plastic Surgeons in 2007.
  • Served as Associate Clinical Professor of Plastic Surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
  • Past chief of the Department of Plastic Surgery, St. Thomas Midtown Hospital; in practice in Nashville since 1995.
  • The bio states she "currently focuses her practice on cosmetic surgery of the breast and cosmetic body contouring."

Facelift and neck lift work

  • Procedure pages. None. The former facelift URL redirects to the face index, the neck lift URL returns 404, and the face menu lists eyelid surgery, laser resurfacing, brow lift and fat injections (face).
  • Galleries. Facelift: 10 cases, 6 attributed to Dr. Gingrass, for example a 56-year-old treated with facelift and chin implant (case 2780). Le Petite Lift: 7 cases, 3 attributed to Dr. Gingrass. The site does not describe the Le Petite Lift technique.
  • Recovery. A practice blog post by Drs. Gingrass and Haws says swelling often peaks within 48 to 72 hours and bruising peaks in the first few days (facelift recovery).
  • Prices. None published.

Other facial procedures

The practice offers eyelid surgery (eyelid), laser skin resurfacing (laser) and fat injections (fat injections). The menu's brow lift link redirects to the face index. Eyelid and brow lift gallery cases are attributed to Dr. Haws.

Practice

Field Value
Practice The Plastic Surgery Center of Nashville
Address 1915 State St, Nashville, TN 37203 (contact)
Phone (615) 467-6777
Other surgeon Melinda Haws (Dr. Haws)
Website https://www.theplasticsurgerycenterofnashville.com/
Instagram instagram.com/plasticsurgerycenternashville
YouTube youtube.com/user/GingrassHaws
Facebook facebook.com/plasticsurgerycenterofnashville

Not verified: whether Dr. Gingrass currently performs facelifts; the gallery cases are undated and the bio names breast and body as her focus.

Practice location and recovery

From theplasticsurgerycenterofnashville.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.

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Recovery, in the practice's words

TopicStatementDays
Swelling"Swelling may take a bit longer to subside, often reaching its peak within 48 to 72 hours." Source2
Bruising"Bruising typically peaks within the first few days and then gradually resolves." Source

Why #183: 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
Leadership015none on the society pages read
Recognition910Newsweek facelift list 2024, 2025, 2026
Score29100#183 in the Top 500