Rafaela Marques, MD

Listed on DeepPlane.com among surgeons who focus on deep plane facelift surgery, Dr. Rafaela Marques practices in Brazil. As of October 2026, DeepPlane maintains this profile around the deep plane facelift — the rhytidectomy technique (a surgical lift that works beneath the facial muscle layer) that this directory tracks worldwide.

Dr. Rafaela Marques is documented here through what DeepPlane can confirm rather than through promotional language. The record describes a clinical focus on deep plane facelift and facial rejuvenation, and it directs you to the official registries where any credential can be checked directly.

The specific city within Brazil is not recorded on this DeepPlane profile. Brazil is internationally recognized as a center for facial plastic surgery, and Dr. Marques is listed as practicing within the country rather than at a single confirmed address on this record.

Deep plane facelift is the procedure around which the profile is organized. The technique repositions the deeper tissue layers of the face — not only the surface skin — to soften sagging along the cheeks, jawline and neck.

The SMAS (superficial musculoaponeurotic system, a sheet of tissue and muscle beneath the skin) sits at the center of how this operation works. Surgeons who concentrate on the deep plane method, as Dr. Marques is listed to, release and reposition that layer instead of pulling the outer skin tight.

Facial aging happens in layers, and a deep plane approach is designed to address those layers together. The aim is a result that looks like natural rejuvenation rather than a surface that has simply been stretched.

Dr. Rafaela Marques is presented on this profile in the context of that surgical philosophy. What a surgeon does — the tissue repositioning, the attention to the midface and neck — matters more to a prospective patient than any single marketing line.

Recovery is part of any honest conversation about this procedure, and it is treated that way here. A deep plane facelift involves real downtime, with swelling and bruising that ease over the first weeks before the final contour settles over several months.

DeepPlane records credentials only when they are confirmed. For Dr. Marques, no board certification is currently verified on this profile, which is not the same as saying none exists — only that DeepPlane has not confirmed one.

Prospective patients are encouraged to treat this profile as a starting point. The most reliable way to assess any surgeon is to combine an independent registry check with a direct consultation and a review of documented work.

Dr. Rafaela Marques maintains a public presence on Instagram at the handle drarafaelarmarques, where a practice's own posts can give a sense of its communication and clinical interests. DeepPlane lists that handle for reference and does not verify its content.

The focus of this profile remains the deep plane facelift and the standards that surround it. Readers considering facial rejuvenation in Brazil will find each section below written to answer a specific, practical question.

Dr. Marques is described throughout in neutral, factual terms, consistent with how DeepPlane documents every surgeon in its directory. Where information is not on record, this profile says so plainly rather than filling the gap.

Understanding the deep plane facelift — what it corrects, how recovery unfolds, and how to verify who performs it — is the purpose of the sections that follow. They build on this introduction to Dr. Rafaela Marques and the work the surgeon is listed to perform in Brazil.