Dr. Andrew Jacono remembers the girl on the school bus. She had a cleft lip and palate, and her classmates avoided her. He sat next to her when others would not. After she had reconstructive surgery, everything changed the teasing stopped, the isolation ended, her peers began to see her as a person. That memory became the foundation of a surgical career that now spans decades.

Training Built for the Work Ahead

Dr. Andrew Jacono earned his medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1996. He completed his residency in Otolaryngology at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, serving as administrative chief resident, before completing a fellowship in Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery accredited by the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.

That preparation led to the development of the Minimal Access Deep-Plane Extended (MADE) facelift in the early 2000s, a technique that lifts skin, muscle, and fat as one integrated structure. The approach corrected fundamental limitations of earlier methods and produces results lasting 12 to 15 years. Town & Country characterized outcomes as patients looking like refreshed versions of themselves.

The High-Profile Patients Who Validated the Method

Marc Jacobs publicly disclosed in 2021 that Dr. Andrew Jacono performed his facelift, praising how natural the outcome looked. More tellingly, Dr. Paul Nassif a plastic surgeon by training chose Jacono for his own deep-plane procedure. Professional-to-professional trust of that kind carries weight that celebrity endorsements rarely do.

Dr. Andrew Jacono has performed more than 750 surgeries on children with cleft lips, palates, and related deformities through Healing the Children. Through the FACE TO FACE program, he has provided reconstructive surgery to more than 100 domestic violence survivors, work that appeared in Facing Trauma on the Oprah Winfrey Network.

Newsweek named him third among facelift surgeons in America for 2025. Harper’s Bazaar listed him among the 24 best plastic surgeons nationwide. The Most Compassionate Doctor Award came to him every year from 2012 through 2022 given to fewer than 3% of physicians annually. Refer to this article for related information.

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