Dr. Samuel Lin, MD, FACS

Training and board certification

• Practicing plastic surgery in the Boston area since 2007 (bio).
• Director of Aesthetic Surgery, BIDMC; Chief of Plastic Surgery, BID-Needham Hospital; Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School (bio).
• Editor in Chief, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (bio).
• Founding program director of the BIDMC-Harvard Plastic Surgery Residency; co-director of the Harvard Aesthetic and Reconstructive Plastic Surgery Fellowship at BIDMC; co-directs an ASAPS-sponsored aesthetic fellowship (bio).
• Editor of textbooks including Aesthetic Atlas of the Head and Neck (bio).
• Attending plastic surgeon with Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at BIDMC and the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (bio).

Facelift and neck lift work

• Facelift. Incisions inside the hairline, in front of the ear and behind the ear to the lower scalp; skin tightened and excess removed; an incision under the chin when the neck needs attention. The page states that "various techniques can be employed" and does not name a specific facelift plane (facelift page).
• Traditional neck lift. Incision from below the sideburn to behind the ear; fat re-sculpted or redistributed; the platysma usually tightened; a second submental incision for liposuction and muscle tightening when there is fat under the chin (neck lift page).
• Limited incision neck lift. Small incisions around the ears only (neck lift page).
• FaceTite. Listed with BodyTite (FaceTite page).

Galleries (HTTP 200 on 2026-09-26):

Most cases in both galleries are labeled "Facelift and Neck Lift."

Practice