Best Deep Plane Facelift Surgeons in Miami (2026)

Florida makes surgeon vetting unusually easy — if you know where to look. Three free, official checks cover most of it:

• Florida medical license. Search the surgeon's name on the Florida Department of Health's FLHealthSource portal. You want an active, unrestricted MD or DO license with no public discipline. Florida also requires office-surgery registration and inspection for procedures performed outside hospitals — ask where the registration is held if surgery happens in an office facility.
• NPI identity. Every US physician has a unique 10-digit National Provider Identifier in the federal NPPES registry. A free lookup confirms the surgeon's legal name, credential and specialty taxonomy — a thirty-second check that eliminates lookalike-name confusion. Profiles marked "NPI-verified identity" on this page have been matched to their NPI record by DeepPlane.
• The specific board. "Board-certified" appears on nearly every Miami practice website, but the boards differ: the American Board of Plastic Surgery (ABPS) and the American Board of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (ABOHNS) are ABMS member boards, while the American Board of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (ABFPRS) is the dedicated facial-plastic specialty board built on ABOHNS or ABPS certification. Ask which board issued the certificate and verify it in that board's own directory — never take the phrase alone as the answer.

Then make the consultation about the operation itself: annual deep plane volume (not facelifts generally), which retaining ligaments are released, how the facial nerve is protected, anesthesia arrangements, facility accreditation and the surgeon's revision policy.