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Plastic Surgery Products
The Magazine for Plastic Surgery Professionals
July 2002
“Following the Gold”
by Rich Smith, contributing writer for Plastic Surgery Products
Alvin Glasgold, MD, FACS, is at an age when many of his plastic surgeon colleagues across the country are winding down their practices and preparing for retirement. However, for Glasgold, the opposite is occurring. After nearly 35 years of cutting and suturing, he is gathering steam and looking forward to taking his Highland Park, NJ, practice to new heights.
In 1994, his eldest son, Mark Glasgold, MD, came aboard as his practice partner, an addition followed not long thereafter by his esthetician daughter Ellen Lange Skin Care. Recently, a pair of associate cosmetic plastic surgeons from outside the family also joined the practice, and beginning in July, Glasgold’s youngest son, Robert Glasgold, MD, will also join the practice.
“Were it not for the participation of my children and the associates, I would have found it very difficult to move my practice into different and innovative areas of facial cosmetic plastic surgery,” confides Glasgold who, prior to this influx of helping hands, was a solo practitioner. “The have brought new vitality to the practice. They are keeping my practice young.”
They are also enabling the practice, know as The Glasgold Group, to engage in super-subspecialization. “To begin with, the group is subspecialized in facial cosmetic plastic surgery procedures, but beyond that, each of the doctors has one particular area of this subspecialty which he or she concentrates on,” says Mark Glasgold. “My dad’s super-subspecialty is rhinoplasties, facial implants, and facial contouring. Mine is facelifts and facial rejuvenation. My sister operates a skin care clinic in conjunction with our practice.”
The Glasgold Group enjoys a reputation for producing an exceptionally natural look with its facial surgeries, facelifts in particular. “Mar, as our facelift super-subspecialist, made it a point soon after joining the practice to develop his knowledge of aging face procedures by attending as many symposia as possible and observing in person the surgical processes developed by renowned innovators in the field,” says Glasgold, who is also a clinical professor of surgery at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, NJ. “ Achieving a really natural look requires Mark to understand what it is about patients’ individual physiology that cause them to experience undesirable aging-skin conditions. Once he gains the necessary insight, he then looks at what he needs to do surgically to make them appear younger.”
Mark Glasgold- an assistant professor in the Department of Surgery at Robert Wood Johnson Medical Scholl and resident instructor with the Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital, New York- says that he has an entire toolbox of innovative techniques to draw upon in addressing the problem or problems presented by each patient. The techniques allow for highly predictable results and little or no post surgical problems. “The technique I use on each patient is whichever one is the most appropriate under the circumstance.” He says. “I have never been a believer in the idea that a facelift is done just one way from patient to patient.”
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