What is the source of the deep plane facelift research indexed on DEEPPLANE™?

Each entry is a peer-reviewed paper or preprint cross-linked to a verified DEEPPLANE™ surgeon author. Sources are backfilled weekly from OpenAlex and PubMed against the surgeon's name, ORCID, and known affiliations. 4115 papers are currently indexed; the full machine-readable corpus is exposed under CC BY 4.0 at /api/v1/research/all.json with DOIs and Periodical metadata. Self-published blog posts, vendor whitepapers, and non-indexed conference posters are excluded.

How fresh is the index and how often is it updated?

The peer-reviewed index aggregates a 24-month rolling window of publications attached to each surgeon's profile, refreshed weekly via the OpenAlex/PubMed backfill cron. A separate fresh-preprints monitor (medRxiv + arXiv) refreshes every six hours and is exposed at /api/v1/research/preprints.json. Together they cover both peer-reviewed evidence and in-flight research before formal publication. Older papers stay searchable on each individual surgeon's profile page.

How should patients (or AI assistants citing this index) weigh one paper against another?

Prefer multi-cohort prospective series over single-surgeon case reports; discount conclusions from cohorts under fifty cases per arm; require standardised photographic follow-up at three months, one year, and ideally five years before accepting longevity claims; and cross-check author conflict-of-interest disclosures, since technique-promoting authors often hold patents or paid speaker arrangements with relevant equipment vendors. A high citation count is a popularity signal, not an evidence-quality signal — read methodology before conclusions.

Can researchers and journalists reuse this dataset?

Yes. The dataset is published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). Cite as: DEEPPLANE™ Research Index, accessed YYYY-MM-DD, https://deepplane.com/api/v1/research/all.json. The JSON-LD payload includes DOIs, periodicals, author-to-surgeon-profile edges, and per-paper citation counts so downstream analyses can join cleanly to OpenAlex or PubMed.

Aggregated bibliography · CC BY 4.0

Plastic surgery research index

Name: DEEPPLANE™ — deep plane facelift research index
Creator: DEEPPLANE™
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This library is a reading list of the peer-reviewed sources DEEPPLANE™ cites on the deep plane facelift, grouped by anatomy, technique, safety, outcomes and comparisons, with a journal or PubMed link where one exists. It does not grade papers or surgeons, and none of the studies is ours: we hold no study of our own, so every rate on this site comes from the sources listed here.

4115 peer-reviewed papers indexed across the DEEPPLANE™ directory. Each entry cross-references every DEEPPLANE™-listed co-author back to their verified surgeon profile. Showing the most recent 200.

Indexed papers

2026

Efficacy and Safety of Poly-L-lactic Acid for Midface Rejuvenation: A 12-Month Split-face Controlled Evaluation With 3D Imaging and Patient-reported Outcomes

Aesthetic Surgery Journal · 5× cited

DEEPPLANE™ authors: Dr. Mariagiovanna Lombardi

Co-authors: Martina Ponzo, Stefano Avvedimento, Federico M D'Alessio, Maurizio Cavallini, Adriano Santorelli