Goretti Ho Taghva, MD

Goretti Ho Taghva, MD, owns and leads LEA Plastic Surgery in Newport Beach, California. A board-certified plastic surgeon, she has nearly two decades in cosmetic and reconstructive surgery, is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and holds surgical privileges at Saddleback Memorial Hospital. She sits on the American Society of Plastic Surgeons Upper Eyelid Blepharoplasty Expert Panel and on the Business Advisory Board of RealSelf. Research of hers has been published in Annals of Plastic Surgery and Journal of Craniofacial Surgery. She has spoken before the American College of Surgeons, the American Association of Plastic Surgeons and the Plastic Surgery Research Council. She is a nationally recognized Super Doctor, and press coverage has included NewBeauty, Allure, Marie Claire, Forbes, Orange Coast Magazine, Vogue, Radar Online, The EveryMom and RealSelf. She also writes The Marking Pen, a Substack on ethics and integrity in aesthetic medicine. Her training includes an undergraduate degree in neuroscience and a medical degree from Brown University, then a plastic and reconstructive surgery residency at USC. She completed additional post-residency training in Asian aesthetic surgery in Korea. She trained alongside surgeons in Korea, Japan and Thailand, focusing on techniques suited to different anatomy and aesthetic ideals. She is among a select group of US surgeons trained in the deep plane facelift. She keeps current through continuing education and research. Her specialties include endoscopic breast augmentation through a single armpit incision with camera guidance, a practice she has carried out for over a decade. Blepharoplasty covers upper and lower eyelid surgery, double eyelid surgery, Asian blepharoplasty, hooded eyelid correction and revision procedures, and each eyelid consultation includes an evaluation of the full upper face. Other services include deep plane and revision facelifts, often combined with fat transfer and energy-based treatments, endoscopic brow lifts, Western and Asian rhinoplasty, breast lifts and full facial rejuvenation. She performs fat transfer, including nanofat and microfat techniques, and provides aesthetic and regenerative care for women in perimenopause and menopause, working alongside board-certified hormone specialists and endocrinologists. Patients from many ethnicities and cultural backgrounds are seen, and she understands both Western and Asian aesthetic traditions. Treatment plans are built around each patient's anatomy, goals and skin, with combined procedures suggested when they fit.