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Top 500
#105
Score
38/100

Dr. Melinda Haws, MD

Melinda Haws, MD is a plastic surgeon and co-founder, with Dr. Mary Gingrass, of The Plastic Surgery Center of Nashville, 1915 State St, Nashville, Tennessee (bio, contact). Her bio states her focus is breast enhancement and body contouring; the practice gallery shows three facelift cases under her name, including a MACS facelift and a mini lower facelift with neck lift (facelift gallery).

Practice
1915 State St, Nashville, TN 37203
Phone
(615) 467-6777
Website
theplasticsurgerycenterofnashville.com
Specialty
Plastic surgery
A smiling senior woman with short grey hair
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. Melinda Haws and Dr. Mary Gingrass. The site has no facelift procedure page; of 10 facelift gallery cases, 4 name Dr. Melinda Haws as surgeon and 6 name Dr. Mary Gingrass. Source

Training and board certification

Source for all rows: bio

Stage Detail
Medical school Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, 1991
Residency Six-year combined general surgery/plastic surgery, Southern Illinois University, Springfield, Illinois
Fellowship Six-month breast and aesthetic fellowship, Nashville Plastic Surgery
  • 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 American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery.
  • Former Assistant Professor of Plastic Surgery, University of Nevada School of Medicine; joined Dr. Gingrass in Nashville in spring 2002.
  • Medical staff, St. Thomas Midtown Hospital; most surgery at St. Thomas Midtown Surgicare Outpatient Surgery.

Facelift and neck lift work

  • No procedure page. The site has no facelift or neck lift page; /face/facelift redirects to the face overview, which covers brow lift, eyelid surgery and laser resurfacing.
  • Her gallery cases. Case 2762: MACS facelift, age 67, shown at 1 month. Case 2759: lower facelift with upper and lower eyelid lift, age 57. Case 2754: mini lower facelift with neck lift, age 41. The other five facelift cases name Dr. Gingrass.
  • Recovery, as the practice blog states it. Bandages, drainage tube and stitches are removed at follow-up visits; bruising peaks in the first few days; swelling peaks within 48 to 72 hours; no strenuous exercise or heavy lifting during recovery (facelift recovery). The post names both surgeons.
  • No prices published.

Other facial procedures

The practice offers eyelid surgery (eyelid surgery), brow lift with swelling resolving in 10 to 14 days (face overview, brow lift), laser skin resurfacing (laser), fat injections, chemical peels and injectables. The site does not say which surgeon performs these.

Practice

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

Queue URL check: the queue facelift URL is a blog tag archive, not a procedure page.

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." Source3
Bruising"Bruising typically peaks within the first few days and then gradually resolves." Source

Why #105: 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
Leadership1515The Aesthetic Society, President 2023-2024; The Aesthetic Society, Immediate Past President 2024-2025
Recognition310Newsweek facelift list 2026
Score38100#105 in the Top 500