A surgical technique only becomes a standard once other surgeons learn to perform it well. Dr. Andrew Jacono has spent much of the past two decades making sure that happens, teaching the extended deep-plane facelift to surgeons around the world rather than keeping the method confined to his own operating room.
Spreading the Jacono Method
Dr. Andrew Jacono has conducted master classes and delivered lectures at international plastic surgery conferences, training surgeons in what he brands as the Jacono Method. That instruction extends the technique beyond his own Manhattan practice, where he performs roughly 250 deep-plane facelifts annually, into operating rooms run by surgeons he has personally trained over the years, multiplying the number of patients who can access the approach.
A Textbook for the Field
Dr. Jacono published a comprehensive medical textbook in 2021 titled The Art and Science of Extended Deep Plane Facelifting, synthesizing insights drawn from more than 2,000 procedures. The book now serves as technical documentation for surgeons adopting the method, supplementing his 2011 peer reviewed study in Aesthetic Surgery Journal that first detailed outcomes from 153 patients. Together, the master classes, lectures and textbook have turned a single surgeon’s technique into a documented approach other practitioners can study, learn and replicate, extending its reach well past the patients Dr. Jacono treats directly at his own practice each year.
The results being taught extend past surgical steps alone. Published data tied to the method show a 3.9 percent revision rate and outcomes that reportedly last 12 to 15 years, figures Dr. Jacono cites when training surgeons on why the extended deep-plane approach outperforms conventional skin-tightening facelifts taught in earlier generations of surgical education. That teaching effort has grown alongside Dr. Jacono’s own case load, which now runs to roughly 250 deep-plane facelifts a year at his New York practice, giving him a steady stream of outcomes to draw on when instructing others. Refer to this page for related information.
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