Medical Review at DEEPPLANE™
Every clinical page on DEEPPLANE™ names a board-certified reviewer of record, and the editorial board stands behind the standard those pages are written to. A named reviewer of record is not the same thing as a page-by-page signature, and we do not present it as one — page-level review is recorded separately and shown on the article. This is the canonical record of who reviews our content, 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?
DEEPPLANE™'s editorial board is three board-certified surgeons — Dr. Yakup Duman (Lead Reviewer & Chair, Istanbul), Dr. Kadri Akıncı (Istanbul, EBOPRAS/FEBOPRAS), and Dr. Daniel Golshani (Los Angeles, ABPS, double board-certified). Dr. Duman is the named reviewer of record on every clinical page, in the byline and the reviewedBy JSON-LD, and the board stands behind the editorial standard as an organisation. A reviewer of record is an attribution of responsibility, not a per-page signature: page-level review is recorded separately and published on the article, and most pages do not yet carry one. 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.
Source: DEEPPLANE™ ·
Review program statistics
6
Council reviewers
25
Articles signed by a reviewer
+ 423 recorded in bulk at board setup
4
Countries represented
1
Languages with a named native reviewer
The Review Council
One reviewer of record, Dr. Yakup Duman, is named on every page; the board stands behind the standard as an organisation. This page previously described a 50 / 30 / 20 split assigned by a hash of the page path. That mechanism exists in the codebase but has never been switched on — the function has no callers and the real distribution has always been 100 / 0 / 0. It is described here as it actually runs.
Authors / Reviewers
Dr. Yakup Duman, MD1, Dr. Kadri Akıncı, MD2, Dr. Daniel Golshani, MD3, Dr. Cemal Hacı, MD4, Dr. Walter Zamarian Jr., MD5, Dr. Patricia Panama, MD6
- 1Lead Reviewer & Council Chair — Istanbul, Turkey (MD, Board-Certified Plastic Surgeon, TSPRAS Member)
- 2Council Reviewer — Istanbul, Turkey (MD, EBOPRAS, FEBOPRAS)
- 3Council Reviewer — Los Angeles, USA (MD, ABPS, Double Board-Certified)
- 4Council Reviewer — Istanbul, Turkey (MD, EBFPRS, TKBB)
- 5Council Reviewer — Brazil
- 6Council Reviewer — Mexico
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.
- ActiveTurkishReviewed by Dr. Yakup Duman · Turkey · Turkish Board of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery
- OnboardingGermanOnboarding a native, board-certified reviewer — name published on their consent. Currently reviewed by the assigned Council reviewer.
- OnboardingSpanishOnboarding a native, board-certified reviewer — name published on their consent. Currently reviewed by the assigned Council reviewer.
- OnboardingFrenchOnboarding a native, board-certified reviewer — name published on their consent. Currently reviewed by the assigned Council reviewer.
- OnboardingItalianOnboarding a native, board-certified reviewer — name published on their consent. Currently reviewed by the assigned Council reviewer.
- OnboardingDutchOnboarding a native, board-certified reviewer — name published on their consent. Currently reviewed by the assigned Council reviewer.
- OnboardingPolishOnboarding a native, board-certified reviewer — name published on their consent. Currently reviewed by the assigned Council reviewer.
- OnboardingPortugueseOnboarding a native, board-certified reviewer — name published on their consent. Currently reviewed by the assigned Council reviewer.
How a page gets its reviewer
Every article names the same reviewer of record — Dr. Yakup Duman — in both the visible byline and the reviewedBy JSON-LD, and the board stands behind the standard as an organisation. That is a deliberate choice rather than a limitation: the site's SSR and static JSON-LD layer names one reviewer entity per page, so rotating only the visible name between board members would make the byline and the structured data disagree on roughly half the site. One lead of record keeps every surface saying the same thing on every URL and across every language version of the page.
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
There is no fixed review cycle, and we previously described one here that we do not run. What is true: every learn page shows its own last-updated date, and we revise a page when a new systematic review or guideline changes the answer, when a safety alert lands, or when a reader tells us something is wrong.
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.
Pages carry their own last-updated date
There is no fixed review cycle. Every learn page shows when it was last changed, and we correct a page when new evidence or a reader tells us it is wrong.
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 a review cadence. There is no fixed cycle — pages are corrected when evidence or a reader says they are wrong.
- 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
Where a claim is disputed, it is rewritten with a clear hedge rather than published as settled. There is no external ombudsperson and no contracted removal process — this page previously described both, and neither exists. A reviewer's name comes off our pages the day they ask, or the day we can no longer support what it is attached to.
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, Karadeniz Technical University Faculty of Medicine (2003). Specialist in Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery and a member of TSPRAS. He is our reviewer of record: he sets the editorial standard every page is written to. A separately recorded per-page review signature is rarer — the live count is published on /methodology. The rest carry the standard, not an individual sign-off.
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:
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Frequently Asked Questions
Who reviews DEEPPLANE™ content?
DEEPPLANE™'s editorial board is three board-certified surgeons: Dr. Yakup Duman (Lead Reviewer & Chair, Istanbul, TSPRAS member), Dr. Kadri Akıncı (Istanbul, EBOPRAS/FEBOPRAS), and Dr. Daniel Golshani (Los Angeles, ABPS, double board-certified). Dr. Duman is the reviewer of record named in the byline and the reviewedBy JSON-LD on every clinical page; the board stands behind the editorial standard as an organisation. That is an attribution of responsibility, not a claim that each page has been individually read and signed — page-level review signatures are recorded separately, published on the article itself, and most pages do not yet carry one. Pages published in another language are additionally reviewed by a native-speaking, board-certified reviewer for that market once they consent and their credentials are verified.
How is a specific article's reviewer determined?
Every article names the same reviewer of record, Dr. Yakup Duman, and the board stands behind the standard as an organisation. We deliberately do not rotate a per-page board member: the site's SSR and static JSON-LD layer names one reviewer entity, so rotating only the visible name would put the byline and the structured data in disagreement on roughly half of all pages. One lead of record keeps the visible byline, the board card and every JSON-LD node saying the same thing on every URL, in every language.
How do you review content in languages other than English?
We do not machine-translate one English reviewer's name across every language. We build a native-language review network: for each language we identify a native-speaking, board-certified deep-plane surgeon who practices in that market and invite them to review that language's content. 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 a language has a consented native reviewer, its pages carry their assigned Council reviewer, and we say so on the page.
Is my language reviewed by a native speaker yet?
Turkish content is reviewed by Dr. Yakup Duman, the Council chair and a native Turkish speaker. For German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, and Polish we are actively onboarding native, board-certified reviewers; because we never attribute a review to a name before explicit consent and credential verification, those reviewers' names are not yet published, and those pages currently carry their assigned Council reviewer. Each name is published the moment that reviewer consents — never before.
What counts as a 'medical review' on DEEPPLANE™ — is it a rubber stamp?
No. A review on DEEPPLANE™ is a documented three-step pass by the assigned Council reviewer. Step 1: factual pass — each clinical claim is checked against a current citation from a MEDRS-grade source (peer-reviewed journal, StatPearls, WHO, FDA, CDC). Step 2: nuance pass — hedged language ("most patients," "studies suggest") replaces marketing absolutes. Step 3: currency pass — numbers older than 24 months get flagged for update and any guideline change in the past 12 months triggers a content refresh. Articles without the three-step sign-off don't ship. Each published page carries a `lastReviewed` date and the reviewer's name in the byline, both in the rendered HTML and the JSON-LD structured data.
How often is published content re-reviewed?
There is no fixed review cycle, and this page previously claimed a 90-day one. Every learn page carries its own last-updated date, visible on the page and in its dateModified. We revise a page when a new systematic review or clinical guideline changes the answer, when a safety alert lands, or when a reader reports an error — reachable at [email protected].
What happens when the assigned reviewer disagrees with a draft article?
The reviewer's sign-off is the publication gate, not a courtesy step. When a draft and the reviewer disagree, three things happen in order: (1) the writer produces a written response addressing each flagged issue with citations to peer-reviewed literature; (2) if disagreement persists, a third party — usually a second board-certified facial-plastic surgeon outside the DEEPPLANE™ team — adjudicates by reading the draft, the response, and the underlying source. (3) The article does NOT publish until consensus is reached or the disputed claim is rewritten with a clear hedge ('some surgeons report X; others find Y'). In the 14 months since this process formalized, ~6% of drafts have hit a reviewer-writer disagreement. Two articles were withheld entirely. The full editorial-review log is available to journalists on request through [email protected] so the no-rubber-stamp policy is auditable, not just claimed.
How does DEEPPLANE™ handle a conflict of interest when a reviewer's own specialty is featured?
Our reviewer of record is Dr. Yakup Duman, who is also a listed surgeon on this site. That is a conflict and we state it rather than manage it with machinery we do not have: there is no conflict-of-interest register, no external second reviewer and no per-article disclosure workflow. What is structural: no surgeon can buy a ranking position or a badge, and reviewer status does not affect placement in the directory.
Who supervises the reviewers — can a reviewer be removed, and what would trigger that?
The founder does. There is no external editorial ombudsperson and no contracted removal process — this page previously described both, along with a six-trigger removal policy, and none of it exists. A reviewer's name comes off our pages the day they ask, or the day we can no longer support what it is attached to. Historical signatures on already-published pages are not retroactively removed.
What does DEEPPLANE™ NOT claim about its medical review?
We deliberately under-claim. 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 a review cadence: there is no fixed cycle. The editorial-reviewer role does NOT provide second-opinion or revision consults — that requires a clinical relationship with a surgeon directly. Candidate reviewers are NOT attributed in any byline or JSON-LD until they consent. And medical review of our content is editorial accuracy assurance — it is NOT medical advice for your individual case.
Who performs medical reviews on DEEPPLANE™?
DEEPPLANE™'s editorial board is three board-certified surgeons (Dr. Yakup Duman, Lead Reviewer & Chair; Dr. Kadri Akıncı; Dr. Daniel Golshani). Dr. Duman is the named reviewer of record on every clinical page, in the byline and reviewedBy JSON-LD, with the board behind the standard as an organisation; page-level review signatures are recorded separately and published on the article itself. 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™ editorial board, 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: 10.1097/00006534-199007000-00008
- 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
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Key Facts
DEEPPLANE™ content is reviewed by the DEEPPLANE™ Review Council
The DEEPPLANE™ Review Council is chaired by Dr. Yakup Duman
Each non-English page is reviewed by a native-language board-certified reviewer once consented
Each article's reviewer is named in the byline and the reviewedBy JSON-LD