Dr. Ritu Chopra, MS, MD

Training and board certification

• A director of the Keck Aesthetic Surgery Fellowship at USC (bio).
• The bio states he spent 15 years researching and refining the DEFINE Deep-Plane Facelift and teaches the technique to other surgeons (bio).
• Appears on the TV program The Doctors; business partner of Dr. Andrew Ordon (bio).

Facelift and neck lift work

• Deep plane facelift. Works beneath the SMAS; the skin and SMAS are kept together as a composite layer in key areas; incisions around the hairline and ears; skin redraped with less tension (deep plane page).
• DEFINE Lift. An acronym for "Deep plane Extended Facelift Including Neck and Elevation of brows." The extended deep plane also treats the lower neck; incisions under the chin, near the ears and near the hairline; general anesthesia; about four to six hours (DEFINE Lift page).
• Facelift. Depending on the patient, a SMAS-based technique or a deep plane facelift (facelift page).
• Neck lift. Outpatient, under general anesthesia or IV sedation; incisions below the chin and near the ears; fat removal, muscle tightening and skin redraping (neck lift page).
• Facility. Roxbury Surgery Center, Beverly Hills, described as accredited by the AAAASF and CMS (facilities page).

Galleries (HTTP 200 on 2026-09-26; practice galleries, cases not labeled by surgeon):

Practice