Facelift Surgery Consultations
Considering a deep plane facelift? Facial aging is a gradual process shaped by genetics, lifestyle, and environment. It affects skin tone, wrinkles, muscle, and volume over time. Both men and women seek surgical and non-surgical options to restore youthful, natural contours.
At Ocean Drive Plastic Surgery, world-renowned Dr. Alan Durkin is recognized as one of the best in deep plane facelift surgery. His advanced approach evaluates every factor of aging to achieve facial harmony and lasting beauty. Together, you’ll choose the best surgical or nonsurgical plan to reach your ideal outcome.
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DR. ALAN DURKIN
Double board-certified Vero Beach plastic surgeon
Dr. Alan Durkin’s enthusiasm for the transformative power of plastic surgery shines through from the very first moment you meet him. He is a passionate believer in aesthetic innovation and an educator at heart.
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—Dr. Alan Durkin, MD., Board Certified Plastic Surgeon
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Deep Plane Facelift Before & Afters
At Ocean Drive Plastic Surgery, Dr. Alan Durkin, our Board Certified Plastic Surgeons, do not offer interventions or procedures, we offer you philosophy of care.
Our philosophy is dependent on defining the strengths and weaknesses of your face and the strengths and weaknesses of the aging process. We discuss these observations openly and freely with you. Our goal of every intervention is to maximize the strengths of your face and minimize its weaknesses.
By evaluating these issues individually and as a whole we routinely achieve a superior, natural result regardless of treatment modality through a thoughtful multidisciplinary and personalized approach. We empower you with the knowledge to make informed decisions, and together, we decide on the best nonsurgical or surgical pathway towards your best facelift, plastic surgery procedure or non-surgical aesthetic result.
“The goal of all medical, nonsurgical, and surgical facial therapy is to enhance the inherent strengths of your face, while minimizing its weaknesses.”
—Dr. Alan Durkin, MD., Board Certified Plastic Surgeon
Comprehensive Facial Evaluation
Once you are familiarized with our facility, Dr. Alan Durkin will meet with you individually. This meeting, as they like to refer to it, is a gathering of friends.
First, Dr. Durkin or Dr. Chim will determine the underlying strengths of your appearance. This is crucial to any intervention, as the goal of all medical, nonsurgical, and surgical facial therapy is to enhance the inherent strengths of your face, while minimizing its weaknesses. By practicing this belief, we consistently achieve exceptional, natural results.
Dr. Durkin or Dr. Chim will review your skin analysis together with you, examine the volume of your face, determine the muscle functions and asymmetries of your face, evaluate the bony structure of your face, and assess the overall harmony of your facial features.
The goal of the consultation above all else is to educate you regarding all of your options for care, and to understand why certain options will work, and certain ones will not work. He does not dictate what you will need. He works in conjunction with you to understand your goals and then achieve them in the least invasive, safest fashion.
Once your doctor has a comprehensive understanding of your facial appearance, he will explain it to you, and then offer all of the different pathways for achieving your facial aesthetic goals. This is the proverbial view from 30,000 feet that all facial aesthetic patients receive at our facility at their initial consultation. Our willingness to both listen to our patients' concerns, and to explain to our patients their options is one of our greatest strengths.
Complete Skin Analysis Prior to Your Facelift
Your facelift or plastic surgery consultation begins with your skin. Individuals that present for facial evaluation will undergo a diagnostic skin evaluation with the Reveal Imager. Non-facelift patients interested in obtaining a skin analysis may do so by scheduling an appointment with our Med Spa in Vero Beach.
This state of the art device utilizes proprietary RBX technology, allowing us to image the different strata of your skin for areas of existing or future pigmentation and redness or hypervascularity. This noninvasive procedure yields information about decades of skin damage and exposure.
Obtain a Complete Skin Analysis prior to your Facial Cosmetic Surgery or Non-surgical procedure. Once we have structurally evaluated your skin, we take a comprehensive medical history of your skin. Factors such as dryness or oiliness, pore size, skin type and others are crucial to your appearance. Evaluation of these allows us to maximize both surgical and nonsurgical therapy to your individual skin type.
In photo left-above (before facelift) and right-above (after facelift), Dr. Durkin provided patient with a bilateral upper lid blepharoplasty with fat excision, bilateral lower lid blepharoplasty with septal reset, limited incision facelift with structural fat grafting to mid face and lower face. Images are copyright protected by Ocean Drive Plastic Surgery.
What to Expect at Your Initial Consultation
We believe that Plastic Surgery is not a commodity, or a procedure. Rather, Plastic Surgery is an experience. This experience begins at our initial consultation.
Ocean Drive Plastic Surgery is designed to provide an elegant, comfortable and friendly venue to discuss the intimate and important personal issues that our patients present with. We recognize that the decision to consult with a plastic surgeon is a difficult one. It is a strong person traveling on “the road less traveled” that is willing to say “I do not like this about myself, and I want to do something about it.” The privilege of joining you on this journey is not lost on us, and we work very hard to make this process as comfortable as possible for you. We know that the process of plastic surgery is just as important as your outcome. Our process begins at the initial consultation. You will first be greeted by our front office staff, and be introduced to our menu of services.
Subsequently, Rosana Mumford will bring you back to our consultation room. “Ro” will be available to answer any preliminary questions you may have. Next, you will spend anywhere from thirty minutes to an hour with Dr. Durkin discussing any issues, concerns, or objectives you may have. Our consults are designed to provide as much information as possible in a comfortable setting. We do not offer people the “hard sell”. Our goal is to educate our patients on their options, and to allow them to make truly informed decisions on how they want to proceed is a stress free environment. We do not take patient photographs until you decide to proceed with therapy.
If you're looking for alternatives to surgery for your treatment? Ocean Drive MedSpa has the perfect non-surgical solution for you.
Our expert team offers non-surgical face treatments that can help you achieve a more youthful and refreshed appearance without the need for surgery. Our state-of-the-art techniques and technologies are designed to lift and tighten the skin, giving you a more youthful and radiant look.
Plus, with our minimally-invasive approach, you can enjoy quick and easy recovery with no down time. Explore our website to learn more about our non-surgical face treatments and schedule a consultation today to take the first step towards a more youthful you.
