New Orleans Center for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

Four surgeons share the operating list at New Orleans Center for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, and the site names every one of them with their training spelled out.

Dr. Parker Velargo is described as a double board-certified, fellowship-trained facial plastic surgeon covering the face, neck, nose, eyes and ears. Dr. Celeste C. Gary carries the same double board-certified, fellowship-trained facial credentials, working across the face, neck, nose, eyelids and ears. Dr. Russell Hendrick is a board-certified plastic surgeon focused on breast and body aesthetic work plus non-surgical facial rejuvenation, and Dr. Alexis Schlosser is listed as a board-eligible plastic and reconstructive surgeon handling face and body.

Putting all four on the page, with the certification distinctions intact, is a straightforward move that lets a prospective patient match the operation to a surgeon before ever picking up the phone.

The surgeons and their specialties

A practice with four surgeons can go one of two ways: everyone does a bit of everything, or the work is split by expertise. New Orleans Center for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery reads clearly as the second. Two of the surgeons are fellowship-trained facial specialists, one concentrates on breast and body, and the fourth spans face and body on the reconstructive side. That division is the useful part, because facial surgery and body contouring are genuinely different disciplines, and a patient booking a rhinoplasty wants a face specialist at the table.

The site is also careful with its language, and that precision counts in a field where credentials get blurred. It marks Dr. Schlosser as board-eligible rather than board-certified, a real distinction that a less scrupulous page would have smudged. Naming it plainly is a point in favor of New Orleans Center for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, and the sort of small honesty a patient can reasonably read as a signal about the rest.

Facial plastic surgery

The facial side is where the depth sits. Between Dr. Velargo and Dr. Gary, New Orleans Center for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery fields two fellowship-trained facial surgeons, and the Face and Nose sections funnel toward the procedures they handle: facelift and neck lift, rhinoplasty, eyelid work. For a patient weighing a nose reshaping or a facelift, having two surgeons whose training is specifically facial, instead of one who does faces among everything else, is a concrete reason to look here.

The overlap between the two also means a second opinion is available inside the same practice, without starting the search over somewhere new.

Breast and body work

Dr. Hendrick anchors the breast and body work, and the Breast and Body sections line up behind him: breast augmentation, breast lift, tummy tuck, the wider contouring procedures. He also handles non-surgical facial rejuvenation, which slots into the injectables side of the menu.

The reconstructive reach comes through Dr. Schlosser across face and body. Between them New Orleans Center for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery covers the two halves a full-service cosmetic operation needs, aesthetic and reconstructive, without stretching any one surgeon past their stated lane.

How the procedures are laid out

The navigation at New Orleans Center for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery splits into Plastic Surgery, broken out into Face, Nose, Breast and Body, then Non-Surgical, then Body and Skin Care Products as their own headings. It is a logical tree. A visitor who knows what they want clicks straight to it, and someone browsing gets a clear map of what New Orleans Center for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery does. The Skin Care Products tab is a small tell that the practice keeps patients in its orbit after surgery, selling the topical side of care alongside the operations themselves.

New Orleans Center for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery promotes certain procedures above the rest, each with its own descriptive blurb and a "more info" link. Tummy tuck, breast augmentation, facelift and neck lift, mommy makeover, rhinoplasty, breast lift and injectables are the featured set. That lineup is a fair read of what an aesthetic practice in this market gets asked for most, and giving each its own write-up instead of a single lumped list means a patient can learn something real before booking.

Featured procedures

The featured procedures do genuine work on the site. Abdominoplasty, the mommy makeover and breast augmentation are exactly the operations people research for weeks before deciding, and each carrying a dedicated page with a "more info" route respects that.

New Orleans Center for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery leans on this structure to answer the obvious questions up front, which cuts down on the vague first consultation where a patient still does not know what they are asking for. It also quietly sorts serendipitous browsers from serious ones, since the person who reads three procedure pages has already started deciding.

Gallery and consultation

A before-and-after "View Gallery" feature runs alongside the procedure pages, and for cosmetic surgery that gallery is close to non-negotiable. Photographs of prior results carry more than any description can, and their presence signals that New Orleans Center for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery is willing to be judged on outcomes.

A "Request a Consultation" call-to-action sits in the persistent header, so the path from reading about a procedure to booking a conversation about it is always one click away, on every page. A gallery paired with an always-visible booking prompt is a practical combination, letting a patient move from curiosity to a scheduled talk without backtracking through the menu.

Reputation and reaching the practice

Outside opinion on New Orleans Center for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery is spread across several places instead of concentrated on one. Yelp lists the practice with around thirteen reviews, though no numeric star average showed in the search snippet. RealSelf, the platform patients tend to use for cosmetic procedures specifically, hosts an active review page for the practice with multiple written patient accounts, again without a visible aggregate score.

On Facebook the practice page has drawn roughly 2,400 likes and close to 300 "were here" check-ins, which points to a real, established local presence. ThreeBestRated.com names Dr. Hendrick among its "Top 3 Plastic Surgeons in New Orleans," a nod to one of the four surgeons specifically.

Taken together that is a decent spread of independent footprint, though a careful reader should note what is missing: none of these surfaced a clean star rating, so the picture is more about presence than a single score you can quote.

The written RealSelf accounts are probably the most useful window into New Orleans Center for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery for a prospective patient, since they speak to actual procedures more than a thumbs-up count does. A patient who wants numbers before booking will have to read the accounts themselves rather than trust an average, which is arguably the better habit anyway.

Contact is the easiest part to assess, and New Orleans Center for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery handles it well. A phone number sits in the persistent header on every page, a dedicated Contact tab lives in the main menu, and a quick "Call" action plus the standing "Request a Consultation" button give three separate routes to reach the office. The practice also publishes a physical address in the Napoleon Avenue area of the city through its listings.

For a surgical practice, where patients need to reach a real front desk and turn up in person, that visibility counts for a lot. The before-and-after gallery sits one click from the procedure pages, and the consultation button follows a visitor down every screen of the site.

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