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The Lead · Procedure Deep-Dive

Neurofibromatosis Type 1 and Cosmetic Surgery: Removing Skin Neurofibromas, Café-au-Lait Lasers, Breast Screening, Blood Pressure, and the Plexiform Question

NF1 puts soft bumps on the skin, brown patches on the body, and sometimes larger tumors under the surface, and many adults with it want some of that gone. Here is what the diagnosis changes about neurofibroma removal, lasers, breast surgery and screening, blood pressure, anesthesia, and the one kind of lump that should never be treated as cosmetic.

November 8, 2026

By The Editorial Desk

14 min

Addison's Disease and Cosmetic Surgery: Stress-Dose Steroids, Adrenal Crisis, Nausea, Fluids, and the Darkened Scar Question

Addison's disease (primary adrenal insufficiency) does not rule out a tummy tuck, a breast lift, or a facelift, but it changes almost everything around the operation: the steroid plan, the anesthetic, the fluids, the nausea strategy, the first nights at home, and what a dark scar actually means. Here is what patients and practices need to settle first.

November 7, 2026 · 15 min

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Procedure Deep-Dive

Klinefelter Syndrome and Gynecomastia Surgery: Why XXY Breast Tissue Is Different, What Testosterone Changes, and the Clot and Cancer Questions to Settle First

Men with Klinefelter syndrome develop enlarged breast tissue far more often than other men, and many learn their diagnosis only because they asked a surgeon about it. Here is what an extra X chromosome changes about gynecomastia surgery, testosterone therapy, blood clots, breast cancer risk, pathology, and the rest of the body contouring conversation.

November 7, 2026 · 13 min

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Procedure Deep-Dive

Marfan Syndrome and Cosmetic Surgery: The Aortic Root, Blood Pressure Spikes, Stretch Marks, Pectus, Breast Implants, and the Collapsed Lung Question

Marfan syndrome shapes the chest, the skin, the face, and the eyes in ways that bring people to plastic surgeons, and it shapes the aorta in ways that decide how an elective operation has to be run. Here is what the diagnosis changes about anesthesia, blood pressure, medications, antibiotics, breast augmentation, pectus, stretch marks, hernias, and facial surgery.

November 7, 2026 · 15 min

The City Guides

Top surgeons, city by city.

Short, considered editorial picks for the cities where aesthetic medicine has the highest concentration of practitioners doing distinct work. We add a city when we have done the reporting, not before.

2 featured · California

Beverly Hills

An editorial guide to the city's aesthetic medicine scene.

3 featured · California

Los Angeles

An editorial guide to the city's plastic surgery scene beyond the Beverly Hills triangle.

3 featured · New York

New York

An editorial guide to the city's plastic surgery establishment.

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Top 3 Plastic Surgeons is an independent publication covering aesthetic and plastic surgery: the procedures, the advances in technique, and the surgeons doing the most considered work in the field. We report on it. We do not sell placement within it.

We do not accept paid placement, and we do not rank by advertising spend or by the volume of five-star reviews a practice can solicit. Our reporting draws on board records, peer interviews, outcomes data, and direct patient testimony, revisited as the field changes.

§ 05 · The Letter

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Top 3 Plastic Surgeons

Neurofibromatosis Type 1 and Cosmetic Surgery: Removing Skin Neurofibromas, Café-au-Lait Lasers, Breast Screening, Blood Pressure, and the Plexiform Question

Addison's Disease and Cosmetic Surgery: Stress-Dose Steroids, Adrenal Crisis, Nausea, Fluids, and the Darkened Scar Question

Klinefelter Syndrome and Gynecomastia Surgery: Why XXY Breast Tissue Is Different, What Testosterone Changes, and the Clot and Cancer Questions to Settle First

Marfan Syndrome and Cosmetic Surgery: The Aortic Root, Blood Pressure Spikes, Stretch Marks, Pectus, Breast Implants, and the Collapsed Lung Question