Facial Plastic Surgery Nashville

Someone in their fifties catches their reflection and notices the jawline has softened, the upper lids hang lower than they used to, and the neck has started to give away their age before anything else does. That is the precise moment most people land on a practice like the one Dr. Kate O'Connor runs in Nashville. The question they bring is rarely "can this be fixed" and almost always "will I still look like myself afterward." On that score, the work catalogued at Facial Plastic Surgery Nashville reads like it was built to answer exactly that worry, because the surgeon focuses on the face alone and nothing below the collarbone.

Training and the M.A.D.E. facelift technique

O'Connor is double board-certified and did her fellowship under Dr. Andrew Jacono, a name well regarded in deep plane facelift circles. The site leans on a proprietary technique it calls M.A.D.E. for its deep plane facelift, which is the kind of branded label that can mean genuine refinement or pure marketing. What gives Facial Plastic Surgery Nashville some ground to stand on is the fellowship pedigree behind it. A surgeon trained by Jacono and then building a signature approach to the same family of procedures is a coherent professional arc with a documented training record.

Surgical procedures offered

The range of operations at Facial Plastic Surgery Nashville is wide for a single-surgeon practice. Beyond the facelift and neck lift, there is rhinoplasty, brow lift, both upper and lower blepharoplasty, chin augmentation, cheek implants, otoplasty, and buccal fat removal. The list keeps going into facial fat grafting, scar revision, hair restoration, and skin cancer reconstruction. That last one is worth pausing on. Reconstruction after Mohs surgery is reconstructive work, distinct from purely cosmetic procedures, and a practice that handles it is signaling a surgical skill set broader than the elective vanity end of the spectrum.

Breadth versus volume in a single-surgeon practice

At Facial Plastic Surgery Nashville, breadth like this cuts two ways. It is reassuring that one office can take a patient from a consultation about tired eyes through to a full facial rejuvenation, and the consistency of a single hand across multiple procedures often matters more than patients realize. At the same time, anyone weighing a complex rhinoplasty or a revision case should still ask how often that specific operation comes up in this practice, since a long menu does not by itself prove deep volume in every line item. The honest read is that the surgical scope is impressive and the burden is on the patient to drill into their particular procedure during a consult.

Non-surgical treatments and skincare products

The non-surgical side at Facial Plastic Surgery Nashville fills in the gap for people who are not ready for an operating room or who want maintenance between bigger steps. Botox, dermal fillers, and lip fillers are the expected staples. The more interesting entries are non-surgical rhinoplasty, radiofrequency microneedling, laser skin resurfacing, and exosome treatments. Exosome work in particular sits at the newer, less-settled edge of aesthetic medicine, so its presence tells you the practice is keeping pace with what is current. Skincare retail rounds it out, with Alumier and SkinBetter Science on the shelves, both being clinical-grade lines you typically buy through a provider rather than off a drugstore rack.

Before and after gallery and consultation options

Facial Plastic Surgery Nashville publishes a before and after gallery alongside patient testimonials and a blog, which is the standard toolkit for this field and genuinely useful here. For facial surgery, the photo gallery is the single most informative thing on any practice site, more telling than any paragraph of copy, and the fact that it is published openly counts. Consultations come in both in-person and virtual formats, a practical option for anyone traveling in or wanting a first read before deciding whether the drive across town is worth it.

How reliable are the online ratings?

Facial Plastic Surgery Nashville carries 83 reviews on ProvenExpert averaging 4.98 out of five, which is a strong showing on a platform that not everyone checks. Its own testimonials page aggregates somewhere between 88 and 98 reviews at a flat five stars, though the source platform is not spelled out and the ratings appear to be pulled in from elsewhere, probably Google.

I tend to trust the third-party ProvenExpert number more than a self-curated wall of praise, simply because the practice does not control which entries show up there. Listings exist on YellowPages and Bark with no reviews attached, and a BBB result that surfaces in searches actually points to an unrelated surgery center in Colorado, so that one should be ignored entirely. No independent Google, Yelp, or Healthgrades tally turned up cleanly for this specific office, which is a mild gap given how central those platforms are to medical shopping.

What to verify before scheduling

None of that undercuts Facial Plastic Surgery Nashville, but it does mean a prospective patient should not stop at the numbers on the site itself. Cross-checking the surgeon's name directly on Google and reading whatever individual accounts exist is the sensible move before any consultation, especially for a decision this permanent and this expensive.

Facial Plastic Surgery Nashville lists a phone number, a street address on 16th Avenue South, posted weekday hours, and a clear consultation page, all of it easy to locate. For elective surgery, that openness is part of the credibility equation. A practice that makes it simple to call, find the door, and book a first conversation is a practice comfortable being held accountable for the work in the gallery.

So the substance is here: a fellowship-trained, double board-certified surgeon, a deep surgical and non-surgical menu, published before and after evidence, and a respectable independent rating to back it up. Facial Plastic Surgery Nashville makes a credible case on paper. A fellowship pedigree from a recognized name, a gallery published openly, and a solid third-party average together put this practice above the typical cosmetic surgery homepage. The main unknown is individual procedure volume, and that is a normal gap at a single-surgeon practice rather than a warning sign.