Dr. Ricardo Meade, MD

Training and board certification

Source for all rows: doctormeade.com/ricardo-meade-md/

• Board certification, as the site states it: "a board-certified plastic surgeon"; the board is not named (home).
• Member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, the Texas Society of Plastic Surgeons and the Dallas Society of Plastic Surgeons.
• Director of the Resident Cosmetic Clinic at Baylor Hospital; faculty, University of Texas Southwestern Plastic Surgery Residency Program.
• Publications listed: "Facelift and Patterns of Lymphatic Drainage" (Aesthetic Surgery Journal) and a "High SMAS" facelift chapter with Fritz E. Barton, Jr. (deep plane page references).

Facelift and neck lift work

• Composite facelift. Lifts skin, SMAS and eyelid tissues as one unit on a vertical, medial vector, moving cheek fat toward the lower eyelid; no temple or high-sideburn scars. The comparison table gives 6 weeks of downtime, with bruising and swelling for about 2 to 3 weeks (composite).
• High SMAS facelift. Named in facelift page videos and his published chapter; general anesthesia or IV sedation (facelift).
• Deep plane facelift. General anesthesia; the SMAS and deeper layers are repositioned; drains may be used in the first week. Swelling settles in two to three weeks, normal activities in two weeks, strenuous exercise at six weeks (deep plane).
• Mini facelift. Described as a modified composite facelift; one to two hours; daily routines within three weeks; no vigorous exercise for two months (mini).
• Neck lift. Platysmaplasty through incisions behind the ears or under the chin; two to three hours; many patients spend the first night in a private recovery suite; swelling resolves within two weeks (neck lift).
• Galleries. Page markup lists about 15 facelift patients (facelift), 13 composite facelift patients (composite), 15 neck lift patients (neck lift) and 6 submental liposuction patients (submental).

Other facial procedures

Upper and lower eyelid surgery (eyelid); coronal and hairline brow lift (brow lift, gallery); lip lift (gallery); rhinoplasty, chin implants and otoplasty.

Practice

Not verified: medical school name (the site says "doctorate degree" at Duke); deep plane downtime is 4 weeks in the composite comparison table and two weeks on the deep plane page. No prices are published.