The Journal · From the Reporting Desk

The practice of plastic surgery, examined.

May 18, 2026
The Non-Surgical Facelift: What It Replaces, and What It Cannot
The term has become a marketing catch-all for everything from lasers to threads. Used honestly, it describes a real and narrow category of results. The distinction is worth understanding before a consultation, not after.
By The Editorial Desk
3 min · Procedure Deep-Dive
May 17, 2026
Staging a Body-Contouring Plan: Why the Order of Operations Matters
Most body-contouring outcomes are decided before the first incision, in the decision of what to combine, what to stage, and what to do first. The sequencing is not a logistical detail. It is the plan.
By The Editorial Desk
3 min · Procedure Deep-Dive
May 15, 2026
The Second Consultation Is the First Real One
Patients who see only one surgeon are not making a choice. They are accepting a referral. The first appointment gives you a vocabulary. The second gives you a decision.
By Eleanor Ashby
6 min · Dispatch
May 8, 2026
The Deep-Plane Facelift: When It Is the Right Answer, and When It Is Not
The technique has become the prestige recommendation. It is also, for a significant portion of patients who request it, the wrong one. The question is anatomy, not marketing.
By Marc Iverson, M.D.
9 min · Procedure Deep-Dive
May 1, 2026
Board Certification Is the Floor. Here Is What We Look for Above It.
Every surgeon we list is board-certified. So is every surgeon we declined. The credential is necessary and almost entirely uninformative. What comes next is the actual reporting.
By Eleanor Ashby
5 min · Editorial Standards

The Non-Surgical Facelift: What It Replaces, and What It Cannot

Staging a Body-Contouring Plan: Why the Order of Operations Matters

The Second Consultation Is the First Real One

The Deep-Plane Facelift: When It Is the Right Answer, and When It Is Not

Board Certification Is the Floor. Here Is What We Look for Above It.