Dr. Sidney Starkman, MD

Training and board certification

• AAFPRS Fellowship Director; the practice trains one fellow per year (fellowship page).
• Member, AAFPRS and AAO-HNS (bio).
• Publications listed include "Less Invasive SMAS Approaches in Rhytidectomy: How, When and Why" with Devinder Mangat, Facial Plast Surg Clin North Am, August 2020, and papers on the supratrochlear nerve and corrugator myectomy in endoscopic browlift (bio).
• Founder and director of the nonprofit Saving Face program, which offers pro bono care for facial injury from domestic violence (bio).

Facelift and neck lift work

• Deep plane facelift. Performed under deep IV sedation with local anesthesia; incisions in the hairline and around the ear; ligaments are released at a deeper level and the muscle and tissue layer repositioned (deep plane page).
• Deep neck lift. General IV anesthesia; a single 1-inch incision beneath the chin; superficial and deep fat removed, neck muscles tightened, and skin, muscle, fat, glands and connective tissue addressed (deep neck lift page).
• Facelift and mini facelift. The facelift page describes a full facelift and a smaller-incision option (facelift page); the mini facelift uses small incisions around the ears and hairline under general IV or local anesthesia (mini facelift page).
• Neck lift and neck liposuction. Neck lift with incisions near the ears and under the chin, liposuction and skin excision (neck lift page); neck liposuction by cannula through a small submental incision, sometimes with the superwet tumescent technique (neck liposuction page).
• Facility. Surgery is performed on site at Desert Canyon Surgery Center, described as a single-surgeon, AAAHC-accredited center (surgical suite page).

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