The Aesthetic Society Facial and Rhinoplasty Symposium 2023

The Aesthetic Society Facial & Rhinoplasty Symposium 2023 is an advanced aesthetic surgery training program focused on facial rejuvenation, rhinoplasty, eyelid surgery, neck lift techniques, injectables, and complication management.

This high-level symposium is designed for physicians who want to refine both surgical and non-surgical facial aesthetic techniques while learning how to achieve better outcomes with greater patient safety.

🎯 Course Goal

Discuss, demonstrate, and observe advanced techniques in facial rejuvenation, including rhinoplasty, through surgical and non-surgical therapies to achieve optimal aesthetic outcomes and minimize complications, with a strong emphasis on patient safety.

📦 Includes

• 3 videos + 1 PDF

• Total size: 15.1 GB

👨‍⚕️ Target Audience

• Cosmetic physicians

📚 Learning Objectives

By the end of this symposium, participants will be able to:

• Define and analyze advanced concepts in aesthetic surgery of the face, nose, and neck

• Demonstrate the appropriate use of toxins in non-surgical facial rejuvenation

• Recognize the importance of facial surgical rejuvenation of the eyes, nose, lips, and neck

• Manage surgical and non-surgical complications with a focus on patient safety

• Demonstrate facial rejuvenation techniques through cadaver prosections with anatomical visualization

🔍 Topics Covered

This symposium covers a broad range of advanced facial aesthetic procedures and techniques, including:

• Deep plane facelift

• Neck lift and neck reduction

• Brow shaping and brow lifting

• Upper and lower blepharoplasty

• Fat grafting and regenerative concepts

• Rhinoplasty consultation and planning

• Open, closed, hybrid, structural, and preservation rhinoplasty

• Cadaver dissection and anatomy-based technique teaching

• Injectables, fillers, and neurotoxins

• Facial rejuvenation finishing procedures

• Complication management in facelift, rhinoplasty, eyelid surgery, neck lift, and fillers

🗂️ Course Files

Note: These are continuous conference recordings, and they include the individual lectures and sessions listed in the detailed program below.

• Jan 12.ts — 9 hours

• Jan 13.ts — 6 hours 30 minutes

• Jan 14.ts — 5 hours 40 minutes

• PROGRAM.pdf — program only

🗓️ Detailed Program

📍 THURSDAY

☕ Registration & Welcome

• 7:00 am – 6:30 pm — Registration Open

• 7:00 am – 7:45 am — Breakfast

• 7:45 am — Welcome
  Christopher Surek, DO

🌟 Combined Keynote

How Modern Concepts in Facial Aging are Disrupting Our Traditional Approach to Facial Rejuvenation
7:50 am – 8:50 am
Christopher Surek, DO & Dino Elyassnia, MD

👔 Do We Perform Neck Lifts or Neck Reductions?

Moderator: Christopher Surek, DO
8:50 am – 9:50 am

• Deep Plane Neck Lift — Dino Elyassnia, MD

• Platysma Gymnastics – Transect or Plicate? Anterior or Lateral? — Richard Warren, MD

• Minimally Invasive Neck Reduction — Richard Bensimon, MD

• Why I Do the Hemostatic Net…Is it a Game Changer? — Francisco Bravo, MD

• Discussion — Louis Bucky, MD & Michael Lee, MD

☕ Coffee Break with Exhibitors

9:50 am – 10:20 am

💉 The Era of the Deep Plane Facelift – Define, Describe, and Execute

Moderator: Louis Bucky, MD
10:20 am – 11:45 am

• Defining Composite vs Bi-Lamellar Deep Plane Facelift — Christopher Surek, DO

• Deep Plane “Hydrodissection” Facelift — Steven Cohen, MD

• High SMAS Facelift — Michael Lee, MD

• Deep Plane SMAS versus SMAS Plication: How to Decide? — Richard Warren, MD

• Discussion — Francisco Bravo, MD & Patrick Tonnard, MD

🍽️ Lunch Break with Exhibitors

11:45 am – 12:45 pm

🏆 Keynote

Success in Facelift Consultation – Step by Step
12:45 pm – 1:15 pm
Louis Bucky, MD

👁️ Brow Shaping versus Brow Lifting and Upper Eyelid Finesse

Moderator: Steven Cohen, MD
1:15 pm – 2:35 pm

• What is the Aesthetic Standard for Brow in 2023? — Dino Elyassnia, MD

• Brow Shaping with Surgery — Patrick Tonnard, MD

• Brow Shaping with Netting — Francisco Bravo, MD

• Artistry in Upper Eyelid Blepharoplasty — Gabriele Miotto, MD

• 30 Years of Brow Lifting and Upper Blepharoplasty – What I Do Now and Why — Richard Warren, MD

• Discussion — Glenn Jelks, MD & Michael Lee, MD

🧬 Fat Grafting Wizardry – An Opus to Fat Grafting

Moderator: Oren Tepper, MD
2:35 pm – 3:50 pm

• Our Journey in Facial Fat Grafting Innovation — Patrick Tonnard, MD

• Prophylactic Fat Grafting, Future Regenerative Medicine and Exosomes — Steven Cohen, MD

• Peri-Orbital Fat Grafting – How Much and What Planes? — Dino Elyassnia, MD

• Discussion — Louis Bucky, MD & Glenn Jelks, MD

❄️ Winter Warm Up Break with Exhibitors

3:50 pm – 4:30 pm

👃 The Ultimate Debates in Rhinoplasty

Rhinoplasty Consultation: Are Simulations Really Necessary?

Moderator: Jason Roostaeian, MD
4:30 pm – 5:10 pm

• Aaron Kosins, MD

• Oren Tepper, MD

• Discussion — Dino Elyassnia, MD & Richard Zoumalan, MD

🩺 What’s Your Preference?

Moderator: Oren Tepper, MD
5:10 pm – 6:45 pm

• Nasal Analysis and Determining the Best Approach — Aaron Kosins, MD

• Why I Prefer Open Structure Rhinoplasty — Richard Zoumalan, MD

• Why I Prefer Closed Preservation Rhinoplasty and Can It Be Used in Every Case? — Dino Elyassnia, MD

• Why I Prefer a Hybrid Approach — Jason Roostaeian, MD

• Tip Management in Different Skin Types, Pitanguy versus Suture — Richard Zoumalan, MD

• Discussion