There is a great article in the New York Times about the “quickie” facelift. I confess I don’t know how it’s done or who the people are who do them, but I do know it took me nine years of surgical training and several more years in practice to learn how to do a good one.  I also know that we never discuss “their” methods of performing a facelift at our annual meetings. And finally, I notice from this article that there are no plastic surgeons performing them at these centers. So what does it all mean?

I suppose it means that there is no free lunch. If what they were doing was so great we’d all be doing it. Conformity in plastic surgery is a beautiful thing. If everyone is doing it, then it probably works, if only a handful of people are doing it it probably doesn’t. As I said before, I am quite ignorant when it comes to the “quickie” facelift, and I intend to keep it that way.