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The Lead · Procedure Deep-Dive

Cutis Laxa and Cosmetic Surgery: Loose Skin From Birth, Why Facelifts Work but Do Not Last, and the Lung, Hernia, and Aortic Checks That Come First

Cutis laxa makes skin hang in folds at an age when nobody else's does, and it is one of the rare genetic skin conditions where a facelift is a reasonable answer. It is also a condition of the lungs, the aorta, and the abdominal wall. Here is what patients should know about diagnosis, which procedures help, why results fade sooner, and the workup a careful surgeon will insist on.

November 5, 2026

By The Editorial Desk

12 min

Myasthenia Gravis and Cosmetic Surgery: The Droopy Eyelid That Is Not Aging, Why Botox Carries a Warning, Ptosis Repair, Anesthesia, Steroids, and the Thymectomy Scar

Myasthenia gravis often announces itself in the eyelids, which is exactly where cosmetic practices look first. A lid that droops more in the evening, a smile that has flattened, or double vision after a long day is a neurology question before it is a blepharoplasty question. Here is how the disease changes toxin, eyelid surgery, anesthesia, medication timing, and scar planning for patients who already carry the diagnosis.

November 4, 2026 · 15 min

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Procedure Deep-Dive

Turner Syndrome and Cosmetic Surgery: Webbed Neck Correction, Breast Development After Estrogen, Moles, Keloids, and the Aorta Nobody Should Skip

Turner syndrome shapes the neck, the chest, the skin, and the ears in ways that bring women to plastic surgeons, and it also shapes the heart, the aorta, the thyroid, and the airway in ways that decide whether an elective operation is safe. Here is what the diagnosis changes about webbed neck surgery, breast augmentation, mole removal, scars, and the preoperative workup.

November 4, 2026 · 11 min

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Procedure Deep-Dive

Underarm Body Odor That Deodorant Cannot Fix: Bromhidrosis, Why Odor Is Not the Same as Sweat, Botox, miraDry, Laser Hair Removal, and Sweat Gland Surgery

Underarm body odor that survives every deodorant on the shelf has a name, bromhidrosis, and a biology that has less to do with how much you sweat than with which glands, which bacteria, and which genes are involved. Here is why antiperspirants often miss it, what Botox, miraDry, laser hair removal, and sweat gland surgery can and cannot do, how those treatments interact with armpit incisions from breast and arm surgery, and when the smell is a sign of something else entirely.

November 4, 2026 · 14 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.

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§ 05 · The Letter

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Top 3 Plastic Surgeons

Cutis Laxa and Cosmetic Surgery: Loose Skin From Birth, Why Facelifts Work but Do Not Last, and the Lung, Hernia, and Aortic Checks That Come First

Myasthenia Gravis and Cosmetic Surgery: The Droopy Eyelid That Is Not Aging, Why Botox Carries a Warning, Ptosis Repair, Anesthesia, Steroids, and the Thymectomy Scar

Turner Syndrome and Cosmetic Surgery: Webbed Neck Correction, Breast Development After Estrogen, Moles, Keloids, and the Aorta Nobody Should Skip

Underarm Body Odor That Deodorant Cannot Fix: Bromhidrosis, Why Odor Is Not the Same as Sweat, Botox, miraDry, Laser Hair Removal, and Sweat Gland Surgery