Who is holding the scalpel? That is the first thing worth knowing about any practice offering cosmetic surgery, and Landford Plastic Surgery answers it without making you dig. The work at Landford Plastic Surgery is led by Dr. Wilmina Landford, a board-certified plastic and reconstructive surgeon trained at Johns Hopkins, who also handles breast and body cases at Chevy Chase Facial Plastic Surgery. That single fact does more for the credibility of this listing than a page of careful prose, because it ties the practice to a named, traceable surgeon with a recognizable training pedigree.

Landford Plastic Surgery runs as a concierge plastic and reconstructive surgery operation out of Bethesda, MD, with a second office in Timonium. It is small enough to feel personal and broad enough to cover most of what someone weighing a procedure would shop for. The Bethesda address sits on Wisconsin Avenue, putting the practice within easy reach of patients across the Washington and Baltimore stretch who do not want to travel far for surgery or follow-up. Three surgical buckets organize the site: face, breast, and body. Under face you get facelift, rhinoplasty, eyelid surgery, brow lift, neck lift, chin implant, and hair transplant. Breast work spans augmentation, lift, reduction, implant removal, fat transfer, and gynecomastia reduction for men. The body category carries tummy tuck, liposuction, Brazilian butt lift, the mommy makeover bundle, thigh lift, and general contouring.

Beyond the operating room, the menu at Landford Plastic Surgery extends into injectables and skin treatments: wrinkle relaxers, dermal fillers, lip fillers, microneedling, and laser resurfacing. There is also a male-specific track, a set of awake procedures done under local anesthesia, and a medical weight loss program. I find the awake-procedure line genuinely interesting, since local-anesthesia options tend to be underexplained on most surgical sites and their presence here points to a practice thinking about patients who want to avoid full sedation. Whether that fits a given case is a conversation for a consultation, but few competitors list it at all. The same goes for the male-specific procedures and gynecomastia reduction, areas that many practices treat as an afterthought.

Does the site help you decide, or just sell?

Landford Plastic Surgery carries the supporting material that people considering elective surgery want when they weigh a procedure. There is a before-and-after gallery, which for cosmetic work is close to mandatory, along with patient testimonials, financing information, recovery guides, and a FAQ section. The recovery guides in particular point to a practice that wants patients to understand the downtime and aftercare as much as the cosmetic outcome. For a field where the visible outcome is the entire point, the gallery doubles as the most useful page on the whole site.

A blog rounds out the educational side, and there is Spanish-language content under Cirugia Plastica, which widens access in a region with a sizable Spanish-speaking population. Consultations with Landford Plastic Surgery can be booked online, so the path from reading to acting is short. None of this is exotic, but the combination is more thorough than the average single-surgeon practice puts together, and the depth of the supporting pages points to an office that has put effort into preparing patients.

On contact, there is nothing to complain about. The phone number and address for Landford Plastic Surgery sit plainly on the homepage, a contact and consultation page exists, and a published email backs it all up. For an elective procedure where you may need to reach the office before and after surgery, that visibility saves patients a frustrating search at the worst possible time. An office that makes itself easy to find expects to be called and is set up to answer.

Reputation deserves a hard look, because cosmetic surgery is a field where outside opinion outweighs anything the practice writes about itself. Landford Plastic Surgery shows a 5-star Google rating across more than seventy reviews, a healthy volume for a practice of this scale and a strong independent indicator on its own. The picture is not uniform across every platform, though. The Better Business Bureau lists the practice but does not show it as accredited and carries no rating. Healthgrades has a profile with no reviews posted, the Facebook page lists none, and Sharecare shows a profile without a rating.

That spread is worth reading honestly. The Google score is the load-bearing piece, and it is good. The empty profiles elsewhere are not red flags so much as unused channels, which is common when a practice concentrates its review activity on one dominant platform. Someone doing real diligence would lean on the Google reviews, read a chunk of them instead of stopping at the aggregate star, and treat the quiet profiles as neutral. The lack of BBB accreditation falls into the same bucket: worth noting, not worth panicking over, since accreditation is a paid program many reputable practices skip.

What does the overall package add up to? A single board-certified surgeon with Hopkins training, two convenient Maryland locations serving the Washington and Baltimore corridor, a full surgical and non-surgical menu, and the kind of educational scaffolding that helps a nervous patient make an informed choice. Landford Plastic Surgery presents itself the way a serious practice should: clear on who operates, clear on what is offered, and easy to reach. The concierge framing also sets an expectation of attentive, personalized care, and the rest of the site mostly supports that promise. Cross-checking the claims against the surgeon's credentials and the patient feedback does not turn up contradictions.

There are fair questions a careful reader should still carry into a consultation. Pricing is not laid out in the open, which is normal for surgery but means the financing page only tells part of the story until you talk to the office. The single-surgeon model at Landford Plastic Surgery means availability and scheduling depend on one person's calendar, a trade-off that comes with the personal attention. And the procedure you are weighing should be measured against the gallery results and the volume of similar cases the surgeon has done, not the breadth of the menu alone.

In the Bethesda, Baltimore, and greater D.C. corridor, Landford Plastic Surgery is a credible name to put on a shortlist. The training is documented, the menu is wide, the contact details are open, and the Google record backs it up. Few single-surgeon practices are this clear about who operates. What the website cannot settle is the fit between the surgeon's specific approach and a patient's particular case; that takes a conversation in the office, not a scroll through a gallery. The published evidence is good enough to make that conversation worth having.

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