Training and board certification
Source for all rows: plasticsurgerynola.com/about/about-dr-velargo/
| Stage | Detail |
|---|---|
| College | Louisiana State University, magna cum laude |
| Medical school | LSU School of Medicine in New Orleans |
| Residency | Head and neck surgery, University of Tennessee College of Medicine, Memphis, five years; trained with Dr. Phillip R. Langsdon and Dr. John "Mac" Hodges |
| Fellowship | AAFPRS facial plastic and reconstructive surgery fellowship with Dr. E. Gaylon McCollough, Alabama; mentoring from Dr. Fred G. Fedok |
- Board certification, as the site states it: "double board-certified, fellowship-trained Facial Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon." The boards are not named on the bio page.
- The bio states nine years in private practice and that he is most known for rhinoplasty and aging face surgery.
Facelift and neck lift work
- Preservation extended deep plane facelift. Goes deep to the SMAS and lifts it while minimizing skin elevation; combined with a deep structural neck lift beneath the platysma; incisions in the hairline and/or behind the ear (facelift).
- Anesthesia options. Office procedure room under oral sedation with laughing gas and local anesthesia, or an outpatient facility with conscious sedation or general anesthesia (facelift).
- Renaissance Lift. His trademarked combination of facelift, nano-fat grafting and skin resurfacing; neck work uses the SMMS technique he co-published in 2013, platysmaplasty, platysma transection or a lateral platysma sling (facelift).
- Preservation facelift page (preservation).
- Neck lift. Isolated structural neck lift through one incision under the chin, without incisions behind the ears (isolated neck lift); direct neck lift (direct neck lift).
- Recovery, per the facelift page. Head wrap until the next morning; sutures and staples out at one week, earlobe stitch at two weeks; no strenuous exercise and no driving for two weeks; 80% of swelling gone at 2 weeks and 90% at 2 months; work or social obligations at 10-14 days.
- Price. No prices published.
- Galleries. Facelift and neck lift (7 archive pages), isolated structural neck, direct neck lift, blepharoplasty, brow lift. Archive pages do not label cases by surgeon.
Other facial procedures
The site lists upper and lower blepharoplasty (upper, lower), brow lift (brow lift), nano-fat grafting (nano-fat), lip lift with SMAS grafting, rhinoplasty, buccal fat reduction and dimple creation (home).
Practice
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Practice | New Orleans Center for Aesthetics and Plastic Surgery |
| Main office | 2633 Napoleon Ave #920, New Orleans, LA 70115 (contact) |
| Satellite office | 2111 North Causeway Blvd. Ste. 1, Mandeville, LA 70471 |
| Phone | (504) 533-8848 |
| Other physicians | Dr. Hendrick, Dr. Gary, Dr. Alexis Schlosser (home) |
| Website | plasticsurgerynola.com |
| Social | Instagram, YouTube, Facebook |
Not verified: FACS (listed in the queue, not printed with his name); the boards behind "double board-certified."