Dr. Gale

Derrick Gale, MD, practices as a facial plastic and reconstructive surgeon in Riverton, Utah, where he is the surgeon and proprietor of Gale Facial Plastics. He works with the Ear, Nose and Throat Center of Utah. He is board-certified and a fellowship-trained, multi-disciplinary plastic surgeon. He holds Texas and Utah state medical licenses and belongs to the American Academy of Otolaryngology. His training began with otolaryngology and head and neck surgery at the University of Utah School of Medicine, continued with a residency at Washington University in St. Louis at Barnes Jewish Hospital and St. Louis Children's Hospital, and included clinical fellowships in sleep surgery at Endormir Sleep and Sinus and in facial plastic and reconstructive surgery at the Texas Center for Facial Plastics and Laser Surgery. He also completed fellowship training in airway reconstruction and has years of jaw surgery training under Dr. Alan Sclaroff, DDS, and Dr. Jose Barrera, MD. His practice centers on reconstructive, facial, and sleep surgery, covering facial trauma, reconstruction after cancer ablation, reconstructive skeletal facial and orthognathic surgery, and surgery for sleep-related breathing disorders. Signature procedures include facelifts, deep plane facelifts, otoplasty, blepharoplasty, chin augmentation, and rhinoplasty, and he is a rhinoplasty expert. He has extensive training in non-surgical aesthetic work, performs Botox and Dysport injections, and personally performs all dermal filler injections. Before treatment, he reviews personal risk factors and realistic outcomes with each patient. As an undergraduate he studied biology and zoology at Southern Utah University, where he was on the Dean's List and received the Honorable Freshman Award and a Research Scholarship, and he also received University of Utah scholarships. He has published research on rhinoplasty, head and neck surgery, and other topics, and has given plastic and reconstructive surgery presentations to national audiences. He is one of Utah's leading facial plastic and reconstructive surgeons.