Pietro Luciano Serra, MD

Dr. Luciano Serra is also listed as a member of AICPE, the Associazione Italiana di Chirurgia Plastica Estetica (Italian Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery). Membership in a national aesthetic society connects a surgeon to shared education, meetings and professional standards within Italy's cosmetic surgery community.

Facial rejuvenation sits at the center of the surgeon's DeepPlane profile. The listed specialties are deep plane facelift, high SMAS facelift, extended lower blepharoplasty (eyelid surgery that also reshapes the lid–cheek junction), direct excision of malar bags, and capsular contracture treatment for breast implants.

A deep plane facelift is a form of rhytidectomy (the medical term for facelift surgery) that works beneath the SMAS (the superficial muscular aponeurotic system, a firm layer under the skin and fat). Rather than pulling skin tight, the surgeon releases and lifts deeper tissue, aiming to restore the cheeks, jawline and neck together.

The high SMAS facelift, another listed specialty, carries the SMAS lift higher on the face, above the cheekbone arch, to address the midface. Because both techniques are on record, you can discuss with the surgeon which depth and direction of lift suits your own face.

Eye-area surgery is a notable part of this profile. Extended lower blepharoplasty and direct excision of malar bags (the puffy swellings that can sit on the upper cheek) both treat the lower eyelid and cheek — an area where facial aging often shows early and where a facelift alone may not reach.

The practice's own website, pietroserrachirurgoplastico.it, describes a broad scope across facial, breast and body surgery. Facial procedures listed there include blepharoplasty, rhinoplasty, otoplasty, chin surgery, lip lifts and several lifting operations — brow, forehead, temporal, mid-face and cervico-facial (face and neck) lifts.

Reconstructive and non-surgical care also appear on the practice's site. These include breast reconstruction, removal of skin and subcutaneous growths, carpal and cubital tunnel surgery, and aesthetic medicine such as hyaluronic acid and poly-L-lactic acid fillers, botulinum toxin, chemical peels and medical lasers.

According to the practice's website, the surgeon's philosophy is that plastic surgery should reveal rather than transform. The site, written in Italian, opens with a line from the poet John Keats — 'Beauty is truth, truth is beauty' — and states an aim of enhancing each patient's natural harmony.

Personalization is a recurring theme in how the practice describes its care. The website speaks of an exclusive, highly personalized path for each patient, guided by passion and scientific rigor, which matters in facelift surgery because every face ages at its own pace and in its own pattern.

Many patients considering a deep plane facelift are in their fifties and sixties, when jowls, neck laxity and midface descent become harder to soften with fillers alone. For this group, a natural result that still looks like you — only rested — is usually the goal, and the practice's stated philosophy aligns with that aim.

Recovery after a deep plane facelift usually involves visible swelling and bruising for the first one to two weeks. Most patients return to social and light daily activities around weeks three to four, while final results continue to settle over three to six months as deeper tissues heal.

Cagliari, Sardinia's capital, offers a calm Mediterranean setting for that recovery period. Patients interested in surgery with Dr. Pietro Luciano Serra can begin by contacting Villa Bella Clinic through DeepPlane.com to arrange a consultation and discuss whether a deep plane facelift suits their goals.