Dr. Sammy Sinno

Dr. Sammy Sinno practices plastic surgery at TLKM Plastic Surgery in Chicago and is board-certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery. He is clinical faculty at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, is also listed with St. Joseph Hospital, and works in plastic surgery publishing, speaking and teaching as an editor, author, speaker and educator. His six-year integrated plastic surgery residency was at NYU Langone Medical Center, where he served as Executive Chief Resident of NYU Plastic Surgery. Facial aesthetic surgery is his main focus, especially facelifts and primary and revision rhinoplasty. He is most closely associated with the dual plane deep plane facelift, performed with deep neck surgery when indicated. He also performs blepharoplasty, breast augmentation, and face, breast and body contouring. He has performed more than 1,000 facial rejuvenation procedures and more than 1,000 rhinoplasties. His facelift approach relies on structural repositioning rather than skin tightening alone. In rhinoplasty he prefers preservation-focused techniques, grafting cartilage from the ear or rib when needed. Patients unhappy with an earlier rhinoplasty, or seeking correction of previous surgery, often consult him. He aims for results that enhance natural beauty without overwhelming it, with a focus on results that look natural and undetectable, sound structure and precise work. Patients travel to him from across the United States and nearly 50 countries. Newsweek included him among America's Best Plastic Surgeons for 2025 and 2026 in five procedure categories. He has hundreds of five-star patient reviews, is a nationally recognized facelift expert, and is among the leading facelift and rhinoplasty surgeons in Chicago. He has received RealSelf Top Contributor and Top Doctor recognition and a Best Paper Award from Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Journal. As an author or co-author he has more than 50 manuscripts, 26 abstracts and 20 textbook chapters. He has edited three aesthetic surgery textbooks and is a contributing editor and author of a major textbook on facial aesthetic surgery. He serves as an editorial peer reviewer for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Aesthetic Society Journal, and has been invited to lecture at ASPS, The Aesthetic Society, ISAPS and other national and international meetings.