Medical Review at DEEPPLANE™
Every clinical page on DEEPPLANE™ is signed by a named, board-certified surgeon on our Review Council — and in every language we publish, by a native-market reviewer once they consent. This is the canonical record of who reviews our content, how a page gets assigned its reviewer, what we verify, and what we deliberately do not claim.
Last reviewed: · Editorial methodology & conflict-of-interest policy
Quick Answer
Who medically reviews DEEPPLANE™ content?
Every clinical page on DEEPPLANE™ is reviewed by a board-certified surgeon on a three-member Review Council — Dr. Yakup Duman (Lead Reviewer & Chair, Istanbul), Dr. Kadri Akıncı (Istanbul, EBOPRAS/FEBOPRAS), and Dr. Daniel Golshani (Los Angeles, ABPS, double board-certified). Each page is assigned to one named Council reviewer (shown in the byline and the reviewedBy JSON-LD), and pages published in another language are additionally reviewed by a native-speaking, board-certified surgeon for that market once they have consented and their credentials are verified. Reviewers can withdraw at any time; we never claim review without consent.
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Review program statistics
The Review Council
Pages are distributed roughly Dr. Yakup Duman 50% / Dr. Kadri Akıncı 30% / Dr. Daniel Golshani 20%, assigned by a stable hash of the page path so a page's byline never churns between builds.
Each article passes a documented three-step review before it is published
The Native-Language Review Network
Our Turkish pages are reviewed by a Turkish surgeon; our German pages, French pages, and every other language we publish are reviewed by a native-market surgeon — not one English reviewer machine-translated everywhere.
A native reviewer's name appears in the localized byline and reviewedBy JSON-LD only after they personally consent and we verify their board certification. Until then the page carries its assigned Council reviewer, and we say so. We never publish a reviewer's name before their explicit consent.
Turkish content is reviewed by Dr. Yakup Duman (Council chair). We are onboarding native, board-certified reviewers for German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, and Polish — each name is published only on the reviewer's explicit consent and credential verification.
How a page gets its reviewer
Each article is assigned to ONE Council member deterministically, by a stable hash of the normalized page path. Because the assignment is deterministic, the visible byline and the reviewedBy JSON-LD always agree, and the same editorial decision — the same named reviewer — carries across every language version of the page (the locale prefix is stripped before hashing).
The three-step review pass
Factual pass
The assigned Council reviewer checks each clinical claim against a current citation from a MEDRS-grade source (peer-reviewed journal, StatPearls, WHO, FDA, CDC).
Nuance pass
Hedged language ("most patients," "studies suggest") replaces marketing absolutes, so claims reflect clinical consensus rather than promotion.
Currency pass
Numbers older than 24 months are flagged for update and any guideline change in the past 12 months triggers a refresh. The reviewer's name and the lastReviewed date render in both the HTML byline and the JSON-LD.
Cadence & override triggers
Every published learn page is re-reviewed on a 90-day rolling cycle. Four triggers override the cycle and force an immediate re-review: (1) a new systematic review or meta-analysis on the page's topic; (2) an FDA label change or safety alert; (3) a major guideline update from ASPS, ISAPS, or AAFPRS; and (4) flagged user feedback indicating a specific factual error.
Editorial Standards & Evidence Tiers
According to ASPS and ISAPS editorial-standards guidance, patient-facing surgical education should be signed by a named, credentialed reviewer whose qualifications are visible on the page and whose conflict-of-interest register is published openly — a standard DEEPPLANE™ applies to every learn-page article, with the assigned Council reviewer named on each article.
According to the AMA Manual of Style for medical publishing, clinical claims require citation to peer-reviewed primary sources or recognized society guidance, and the attribution must be machine-readable — DEEPPLANE™'s articles render both inline numbered markers and explicit 'According to <source>' prose to satisfy both human-reader and generative-search retrieval.
According to Mayo Clinic, outcome data in facial-plastic-surgery content should be cited to statistic sources with sample size and methodology disclosure, not to marketing aggregates — DEEPPLANE™ uses Aesthetic Society statistics, NCBI PubMed-indexed studies, and our own per-surgeon-grade clinical review as the three tiers of outcome evidence.1
Every article reviewed before publication
No educational content goes live without medical review. The assigned Council reviewer checks procedural claims, risk disclosures, and recovery timelines against current clinical standards.
Citations verified against peer-reviewed literature
All medical claims are supported by references from NCBI PubMed, Aesthetic Surgery Journal, and other peer-reviewed sources. Citations are listed at the end of each article.
Content updated at least quarterly
Surgical guidelines and outcome data evolve. DEEPPLANE™ reviews all pillar articles every three months and updates any information that no longer reflects current practice.
How native review works
- We identify a native-speaking, board-certified deep-plane surgeon practicing in the target market.
- We invite them to review that language's content. Review is attributed only after explicit written consent and board-certification verification — never before.
- Once active, the translate pipeline swaps that reviewer's real name and credentials into that locale's byline and reviewedBy / author JSON-LD — their board on their name, never one reviewer's board on someone else's name.
- They can withdraw at any time; the attribution is removed when they do.
- The Review Council governs cadence, conflict-of-interest, and disputes across every language.
What we do NOT claim
Most review-process pages over-claim. We win trust by under-claiming and over-disclosing.
- We do NOT claim every reviewer personally re-derived every cited study — they verify each claim against a current, named source.
- We do NOT claim 24/7 review of breaking research. The cadence is a 90-day rolling cycle plus the named override triggers.
- The editorial-reviewer role does NOT provide second-opinion or revision consults — that requires a clinical relationship with a surgeon directly.
- Candidate native reviewers are NOT attributed in any byline or JSON-LD until they consent.
- Medical review of our content is editorial accuracy assurance — it is NOT medical advice for your individual case.
Governance & accountability
A reviewer's sign-off is the publication gate, not a courtesy step. When a draft and the assigned reviewer disagree, the writer files a written rebuttal with citations; if disagreement persists, an external board-certified surgeon adjudicates, and the article does not publish until consensus is reached or the disputed claim is rewritten with a clear hedge. Reviewer oversight runs through an external editorial ombudsperson, and any of six specific triggers (loss of certification, disciplinary action, uncorrected factual error, COI breach, sustained late delivery, or a written request to step down) can remove a reviewer mid-term.
Journalists and researchers verifying a published claim can email [email protected] with the exact sentence and page URL; we respond within 3 business days with the source citation or a correction.
Lead Reviewer & Council Chair
Dr. Yakup Duman
Lead Reviewer & Council Chair · Istanbul
MD, Istanbul University Faculty of Medicine. Board-certified in Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery and a member of the Turkish Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery Association, with 13+ years of focused experience in facial rejuvenation surgery. As Council chair he sets the editorial standard the whole network applies and carries the largest share of page reviews.
View full profile- Dr. Kadri Akıncı— EBOPRAS / FEBOPRAS, Istanbul
- Dr. Daniel Golshani— ABPS, double board-certified, Los Angeles
Topics the network reviews
The Council and native reviewers cover every major topic area on DEEPPLANE™, across all languages:
Frequently Asked Questions
Who performs medical reviews on DEEPPLANE™?
Every clinical page on DEEPPLANE™ is reviewed by a board-certified surgeon on a three-member Review Council (Dr. Yakup Duman, Lead Reviewer & Chair; Dr. Kadri Akıncı; Dr. Daniel Golshani), with the specific reviewer assigned deterministically per page and named in the byline and reviewedBy JSON-LD. Pages published in another language are additionally reviewed by a native-speaking, board-certified surgeon for that market — named only once they consent and their credentials are verified. We never claim review without consent. (DEEPPLANE™ Review Council, 2026.)
Editorial Sources
- 01Hamra ST. The deep-plane rhytidectomy. Plast Reconstr Surg. 1990;86(1):53-61(opens in new tab)(Journal Article)Accessed: 2026-03-21DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199001000-00006
- 02Mayo Clinic - Facelift: Overview, Risks and Results(opens in new tab)(Organization)Accessed: 2026-04-01
- 03NIH National Library of Medicine - Rhytidectomy StatPearls(opens in new tab)(Government Source)Accessed: 2026-04-01