Your Plastic Surgery Companion: A Consumer's Guide to Facial Plastic Surgery

Ross A. Clevens, M.D., M.P.H., FACS is recognized as an international lecturer and innovator in facial plastic surgery know for his dedication to redefining the patient experience. He created and refined the Laser-Assisted Weekend Necklift to deliver patients a more accurate and desirable outcome while affording a smoother recovery. His discoveries, studies and publications of the benefits that Platelet Healing Gels have proven to alleviate discomfort and speed healing after surgery. Your Plastic Surgery Companion: A Consumer's Guide to Facial Plastic Surgery is another way in which Dr. Clevens has succeeded in innovating the facial plastics industry and improved patient outcomes. With this book, Dr. Clevens is able to share his expertise with his lifelong target audience - the patients - more directly, efficiently and intimately than in his international lecture circuits. Your Plastic Surgery Companion: A Consumer's Guide to Facial Plastic Surgery is divided into eight chapters, or steps, to provide you, the reader, a sequential and descriptive understanding of the entire process you will experience in becoming a patient. You will learn many of the psychological, emotional, social and physical factors that influence your decision-making process. You will learn about Platelet Healing Gels and the Laser-Assisted Weekend Necklift - Dr. Clevens' groundbreaking contributions to his profession - along with the latest and expected upcoming innovations in the field based upon Dr. Clevens' ongoing research. You will learn insightful knowledge and time-tested tips to facilitate your preparation and to organize your expectations. You will learn how to contribute to realizing your aesthetic desires well before you lay on the operating table. In fact, you will realize that you can contribute to realizing your beauty goals before meeting the surgeon in the initial consultation. Open the book to uncover where your journey begins. Your Plastic Surgery Companion: A Consumer's Guide to Facial Plastic Surgery is simultaneously an encyclopedia, a how-to booklet, an insider report and a diary. Replete with actual before-and-after photos from one of the nation's most successful practices, Your Plastic Surgery Companion includes dozens of anecdotes from a practicing facial plastic surgeon veteran, respected by his peers across the globe. Testimonials allow readers to hear from patients who have been there, done that and felt those emotions along each of their own unique personal facial plastic journeys. The book's eight steps include: The Knowledge Builder, The Specialist Advantage, The Preparation and Reassurance Program, The Tailor Made Surgical Experience, The Nurturing Process, The Image Maximizer and Considering the Most Common Surgical Options. Read the Epilogue, "A Journey of a Thousand Miles Starts with a Single Step" to find insight and logic related to all aspects of the human experience and the transformative growth we make to our real selves. Your Plastic Surgery Companion contains Appendix, Glossary and Index sections so that you can quickly find information that you need to know before plastic surgery. The Notes sections at the end of each chapter allows you to bring this book along your journey to remind yourself of important tips, thoughts, experiences and personal notes.

Ross A. Clevens, MD, FACS is a renowned Double Board Certified Facial Plastic Surgeon and acclaimed author of numerous articles on facial plastic surgery.  Dr. Clevens received his B.S., summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Yale University, earned his M.D. and M.P.H. at Harvard Medical School and completed his advanced training in facial plastic and reconstructive surgery the University of Michigan.  

Recognized by his peers as an innovator in his specialty, Dr. Clevens lends his knowledge and expertise as an internationally esteemed educator and lecturer.  He was voted "One of America's Top Doctors", "Best of Brevard" and selected "One of America's Top Physicians."  Active in his medical community, Dr. Clevens served as President of the Florida Society of Facial Plastic Surgery, Chief of Staff and Chief of Surgery at Wuesthoff Medical Center and President-Elect of the Brevard County Medical Society.  

His lifelong passion of helping others led him to create and found Face of Change, a nonprofit organization that recognizes the social value of facial plastic surgery.  Dr. Clevens dedicates his time and talents to those who might not otherwise have access to medical care.  He frequently travels to Africa and other developing countries, where he leads physicians on humanitarian missions to perform surgery and provide medical services to impoverished children.  At home, Face of Change provided almost one million meals to local needy and hungry families.  Residing and practicing in Melbourne, Florida, Dr. Ross Clevens invites you to visit him at one of his Central Florida office locations or at drclevens.com and his foundation at faceofchange.info.