Ramtin Kassir

Ramtin Kassir, MD, is a facial plastic surgeon at Kassir Plastic Surgery, with offices in New York City and Ridgewood, New Jersey. He is triple board-certified by the American Board of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the American Board of Otolaryngology and the American Board of Sleep Medicine, and is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. His training includes a residency in otolaryngology, head and neck surgery at the University of Texas Medical Branch and a fellowship in facial plastic and reconstructive surgery at the University of South Florida, plus post-doctoral training in facial surgery. The site describes the institutions where he trained as among the nation's most respected.

His practice centers on facelift surgery, including the deep plane and extended deep plane facelift, which the site says he has pioneered for over 20 years. He also performs the SMAS facelift, the non-surgical K-Lift and endoscopic midface lifts, and works on neck contouring, endoscopic brow lifts, eyelid surgery, facial fat transfer and lip lifts. Rhinoplasty and revision rhinoplasty are another core area, including ethnic and male rhinoplasty and a designer rhinoplasty procedure he created, along with full-face aesthetic balancing. The site states he has performed over 10,000 facial rejuvenation procedures and over 12,000 rhinoplasty procedures, and that he has been in practice for nearly three decades.

Beyond the operating room, he is the author of The Art and Anatomy of Facial Aesthetic Surgery and an international educator who lectures on facelift surgery. He founded and chairs the NYC Facelift & Rhinoplasty Master Course, which teaches deep plane facelift surgery, and trains other surgeons, hosting them from around the world at his New York City office. According to the site, he trained Dr. Sheila Malek Kassir. He holds memberships in the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery.

The site describes his method as personalized and minimally invasive, starting from each patient's facial features and goals and focusing on the deeper structures of the face and neck rather than only tightening the skin. It aims for natural, anatomy-based results and holds that good facial surgery should restore confidence while keeping a patient's own identity. The site says patients seek him out from around the world, that his work has been featured in The New York Times, Fox News and CNN, and that ABC News called him New York's Top Surgeon.