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Top 500
#104
Score
38.4/100

Dr. Michael J. Yaremchuk, MD

Michael J. Yaremchuk, MD is a craniofacial and cosmetic plastic surgeon who performs cosmetic surgery at The Boston Center, 170 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, and is Chief of Craniofacial Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital (home, The Boston Center). His site describes a facelift that repositions the SMAS under a full-thickness skin flap, and a subperiosteal midface lift that can be done alone or with a facelift (facelifts).

Practice
170 Commonwealth Avenue, Suite 101, Boston, MA 02116
Phone
(617) 726-5280
Website
dryaremchuk.com
Specialty
Plastic surgery
Newest paper
Aesthet Surg J, 2015
A smiling senior woman with gray hair posing

Training and board certification

Source for all rows: international distinctions

Stage Detail
College Yale College, magna cum laude
Medical school Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, M.D.
Residency General surgery, Harvard Deaconess Surgical Service
Residency Plastic surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital
  • Board certification: not stated on the pages read.
  • Former Assistant Professor of Plastic Surgery at Johns Hopkins and Associate Director of Plastic Surgery at the Maryland Shock Trauma Institute.
  • Chief of Craniofacial Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital; Clinical Professor of Surgery, Part Time, Harvard Medical School (home).
  • Program Director, Combined Harvard Plastic Surgery Training Programs and the MGH Fellowship in Reconstructive and Aesthetic Craniomaxillofacial Surgery.
  • Author of four textbooks, more than 40 chapters and over 100 articles, including Atlas of Facial Implants (2007) (home).
  • President of the New England Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons from June 2019.

Facelift and neck lift work

  • Facelift. Done "in a deeper plane of tissue": the SMAS is repositioned and a full-thickness skin and subcutaneous flap is re-draped over it (facelifts).
  • Subperiosteal midface lift. Performed alone, with a facelift, or with midface implants; described in his Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery paper and a chapter in Plastic Surgery, 4th edition.
  • Facelift with implants. Cases on the facelift page combine rhytidectomy with chin, mandible or CT-designed custom malar and mandible implants.
  • Recovery, as the post-op instructions state it. Minimal exertion for two weeks; no driving for one week; sleep at 45 degrees for five to seven days; gradual return to jogging, cycling and aerobics at 2 1/2 weeks; a "tight band" under the chin from neck muscle tightening fades over several weeks (post-op instructions).
  • Photos. No separate gallery page; before-and-after photos appear on the facelift page.
  • No prices published.

Other facial procedures

Blepharoplasty (blepharoplasty); brow lift and brow lift reversal (browlifts); lateral canthopexy; custom-carved and CT-designed facial implants (chin, malar, infraorbital rim, paranasal, mandible); rhinoplasty; revisional cosmetic surgery; neurotoxins, fillers and fat injection.

Practice

Field Value
Practice Dr. Michael J. Yaremchuk, MD; cosmetic surgery at The Boston Center (Vendome building), with an attached ambulatory surgical facility
Address 170 Commonwealth Avenue, Suite 101, Boston, MA 02116 (contact)
Phone (617) 726-5280
Website https://www.dryaremchuk.com/
Instagram instagram.com/dryaremchuk
YouTube youtube.com/user/dryaremchuk
Facebook facebook.com/DrYaremchuk

Queue URL check: the queue gallery URL is a facility photo, not a before-and-after gallery.

Not verified: board certification.

Practice location and recovery

From dryaremchuk.com, read 2026-09-30. Prices and recovery times are quoted as the practice publishes them.

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Recovery, in the practice's words

TopicStatementDays
Exercise"You may begin to gradually return to preop activities such as jogging, bicycling, and aerobics 2 1/2 weeks after surgery." Source18
Swelling"You may be quite swollen, black and blue, with lumps and bumps for several days or weeks after surgery." Source

Why #104: the score, line by line

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

SignalPointsOfSource
Research15.4306 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
Recognition310Newsweek facelift list 2024
Score38.4100#104 in the Top 500

Facelift and neck research

Papers with Dr. Michael J. Yaremchuk as an author, newest first. Search PubMed.

2015
Surgical anatomy relevant to the transpalpebral subperiosteal elevation of the midface
Doumit G, Gharb BB, Rampazzo A, McBride J, Papay F, Zins J, et al. · Aesthet Surg J · PMID 25908695
2013
Anatomical landmarks to avoid injury to the great auricular nerve during rhytidectomy
Lefkowitz T, Hazani R, Chowdhry S, Elston J, Yaremchuk MJ, Wilhelmi BJ · Aesthet Surg J · PMID 23277616
2011
Temporal augmentation with methyl methacrylate
Gordon CR, Yaremchuk MJ · Aesthet Surg J · PMID 21908815
2008
Secondary malar implant surgery
Yaremchuk MJ · Plast Reconstr Surg · PMID 18300983