Facial plastic surgery occupies a unique position in medicine. It restores function for some patients and transforms social experience for others. Dr. Andrew Jacono has built a career that engages both dimensions technical excellence applied in service of a deeper commitment. His origin story, rooted in a childhood encounter with a classmate who had a cleft lip and palate, gives coherence to everything he has pursued since.

Training That Set the Stage

After earning his medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1996, Dr. Andrew Jacono completed an Otolaryngology residency at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, where he rose to administrative chief resident. He then pursued a fellowship in Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery accredited by the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. That sequence of training gave him both the procedural depth and the intellectual framework to innovate.

The innovation arrived in the early 2000s. Dr. Andrew Jacono developed what he calls the MADE facelift Minimal Access Deep-Plane Extended a technique that repositions skin, muscle, and fat together rather than simply tightening the outer layer. The result is a facelift that holds for 12 to 15 years and produces outcomes that Town & Country described as patients looking like refreshed versions of themselves. Marc Jacobs and Dr. Paul Nassif are among those who have publicly acknowledged choosing Jacono for this procedure.

Scholarly Work and Humanitarian Service

Dr. Andrew Jacono functions simultaneously as a clinician, educator, and researcher. He is Associate Clinical Professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and serves as Fellowship Director for the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. His research output includes more than 70 peer-reviewed articles and contributions to multiple textbooks, including a 2021 volume on extended deep-plane facelifting.

Newsweek ranked Dr. Andrew Jacono third among America’s best facelift surgeons in 2025, and Harper’s Bazaar included him among the 24 top plastic surgeons in the country. Perhaps most telling is the Most Compassionate Doctor Award, given annually to fewer than 3% of physicians, which he received consecutively from 2012 to 2022. He has completed more than 750 surgeries on children with facial deformities through Healing the Children and provides reconstructive care to domestic violence survivors through the FACE TO FACE program, featured on the Oprah Winfrey Network. See related link for more information.

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