The patient who ends up at Vandegrift Plastic Surgery: Meredith Vandegrift, MD, FACS Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon already knows roughly what they want. They may be several months postpartum, post-weight-loss, or post-someone-else's-operation that did not go as planned. What they are shopping for is not novelty but precision: a named surgeon, a board certification they can look up, and a procedure list specific enough to confirm the practice handles their case type. On those counts, Vandegrift Plastic Surgery: Meredith Vandegrift, MD, FACS Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon delivers without hedging.

The surgeon behind the name

Dr. Meredith Vandegrift is the practice. Magna cum laude from SUNY Albany, medical degree from Stony Brook University School of Medicine, fellowship training, FACS status, and more than twenty years of surgical experience: these are listed plainly on the site, not buried in a credentials tab. FACS designation requires a peer-reviewed election process through the American College of Surgeons, which puts it a step above self-reported board certification. On Long Island, where cosmetic surgery marketing language can outrun clinical depth, having a named surgeon whose credentials are individually searchable is a reasonable floor to start from. That Vandegrift Plastic Surgery: Meredith Vandegrift, MD, FACS Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon is a female surgeon also draws a specific patient population who will not book with anyone else, and the practice appears to know it.

Procedure scope

Vandegrift Plastic Surgery: Meredith Vandegrift, MD, FACS Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon lists breast work running to augmentation (including a small-augmentation variant), lift, reduction, revision, reconstruction, and gynecomastia correction. Body procedures include a drainless tummy tuck, liposuction, mommy makeover, thigh lift, Brazilian butt lift, labiaplasty, fat transfer, gender-affirming surgery, and Aveli cellulite treatment. Face and neck: facelift, neck lift, eyelid surgery, brow lift, and a non-surgical facelift option. Non-surgical services cover Botox, dermal fillers, chemical peels, microneedling, IPL, laser hair removal, laser vein removal, and women's wellness treatments.

The drainless tummy tuck notation names a specific technical approach that prospective patients can research independently and raise in consultation. The revision and reconstruction entries alongside elective cosmetic procedures place Vandegrift Plastic Surgery: Meredith Vandegrift, MD, FACS Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon in correction-case territory, which is harder work and attracts a different kind of patient. A solo surgeon carrying that full a panel is either extremely productive or somewhat over-scoped on paper. The before-and-after gallery, organized by procedure and accessible from the navigation, is a more honest arbiter of that question than the procedure list itself.

Contact and booking

Two addresses on Long Island: East Main Street and West Jericho Turnpike, both in Huntington. Phone is listed prominently. ZocDoc integration means scheduling does not require a phone call during office hours. Contact form is available. Vandegrift Plastic Surgery: Meredith Vandegrift, MD, FACS Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon has covered four contact paths from a single site visit, which solo practices frequently fail to do. Financing details are linked from the navigation, alongside a testimonials page that runs named Google review excerpts next to patient photos. Self-curated testimonials are always selective by construction, but Vandegrift Plastic Surgery: Meredith Vandegrift, MD, FACS Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon putting before-and-after photography in the nav and attributing its testimonials to named individuals rather than anonymous quotes accepts at least a degree of external comparison.

The reputation gap

The external reputation picture is where Vandegrift Plastic Surgery: Meredith Vandegrift, MD, FACS Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon falls short. Sharecare lists 3.7 out of 5 across three reviews. FindaTopDoc shows a perfect score from one review. A single opinion is simply not a data point in any meaningful sense. Healthgrades and WebMD carry profiles for Vandegrift Plastic Surgery: Meredith Vandegrift, MD, FACS Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon with patient testimonials, though aggregate scores are absent from the listing. The Facebook page records 539 likes and 26 check-ins. A surgeon with more than two decades of practice in the same geographic market would normally accumulate a heavier review footprint across independent platforms. It is not the kind of gap you can attribute entirely to patients preferring privacy; busy cosmetic practices accumulate platform reviews over time almost incidentally.

That gap does not overturn the credential case. The FACS, the Stony Brook pedigree, and the twenty-plus years are individually verifiable: look them up and they hold. But comparing Vandegrift Plastic Surgery: Meredith Vandegrift, MD, FACS Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon against Long Island competitors with three hundred Healthgrades reviews will surface an external record that is genuinely underdeveloped. The credentials earn a serious look; the published outcome record, as it stands, cannot close that consideration on its own. The numbers on the independent platforms are simply too few to carry the weight a cosmetic surgery decision typically needs them to carry. That is the honest limit of what this listing can resolve, and no credential transcript makes up for it.

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