Facelift Surgery Salt Lake City

Choosing who operates on your face may be one of the most important healthcare decisions you will ever make. Before you make it, ask yourself these three key questions about your surgeon: 1) Technique, 2) Experience, 3) Leadership in the field.

1. Technique: Will your surgeon lift the deep layers of your face and neck, and see your new jawline take shape in real time?

Below the sagging skin of your cheeks is a muscle layer called the SMAS. Steven Mobley, MD, works beneath it, in the "deep plane," releasing the deeper tissues so the SMAS moves smoothly up and slightly back. Many patients also add a platysmaplasty to tighten the neck muscle from the jawline to the Adam's apple (what many people call a "turkey neck"), using the proprietary, patent-pending Mobley Platysma Clamp and neck retractor Dr. Mobley invented for his patients. Incisions are hidden around the ears and in the hairline.

Why is IV sedation part of Dr. Mobley's technique? Under general anesthesia, your face loses all of its natural tone. Under continuous IV sedation with local anesthesia, you stay comfortable, but your face keeps its normal shape and tone, so Dr. Mobley can make millimeter-by-millimeter judgments until your face looks "just right, but not too tight." His technique also preserves the submandibular (salivary) glands, which keep the mouth moist; because no one yet knows the decades-long effects of removing them, he prefers to keep them working for a lifetime.

2. Experience: How many years of experience in facelifting and facial surgery does your surgeon bring to your face?

In over 24 years of practice in Salt Lake City, Steven Mobley, MD, has performed thousands of face and neck operations, including hundreds of face and neck lifts, for patients who live minutes away and many who drive or fly hundreds of miles. When comparing surgeons online, make sure the numbers belong to one actual surgeon, not a group practice. Every number on this page belongs to one surgeon: Steven Mobley, MD.

Dr. Mobley is on staff at St. Mark's Hospital. He has been an invited visiting professor at Northwestern University in Chicago, the University of Arizona and the Universities of Marburg and Regensburg in Germany, and has lectured by invitation at a dozen international meetings, from Canada to Mexico and the Caribbean. Readers of The Park Record voted him Park City's Best for 10 years, he has been recognized as a Castle Connolly Top Doctor, and he has been featured on Inside Edition, Good Morning America, People and Cosmopolitan. Many Utah patients first knew him as the former ABC4 TV health reporter on Good Things Utah.

3. Leadership in the field: Is your surgeon frequently invited to national meetings to teach his or her techniques to other Facial Plastic Surgeons?

Steven Mobley, MD, is a teacher, innovator and national authority on facelift (rhytidectomy) surgery. He has delivered more than 20 lectures and hands-on cadaver courses to fellow surgeons on facial rejuvenation, including a facelift cadaver lab for the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in Chicago and "Improving Necklift and Facelift Results with Platysmaplasty" at the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS) in Miami. Across his career he has delivered more than 85 lectures and authored more than 50 published works, and he spent 11 years as full-time faculty at the University of Utah School of Medicine, earning tenure as Associate Professor of Surgery and serving as Head of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Residency Program Director.

Dr. Mobley and the Mobley MD practice have given more than $100,000 in charitable surgery and donations, most of it close to home, including free ear pinning surgery for bullied school-age children (K–12) whose families could not otherwise afford it, Utah foster youth through Raise the Future, and veterans and police charities such as Folds of Honor and Tunnel to Towers. A second-generation surgeon, Dr. Mobley believes in serving his patients and in giving back to the community that he and many of his patients call home.

Why patients choose Dr. Mobley for deep plane facelift surgery

Technique, experience, and leadership in the field. When you choose Steven Mobley, MD, for your deep plane facelift in Salt Lake City, Utah, you choose the surgeon patients travel hundreds of miles to see: the surgeon who lifts your face under comfortable IV sedation, who invented the patent-pending Mobley Platysma Clamp, and who has taught fellow surgeons at national and international meetings for over 24 years.

Why do people travel hundreds of miles for Dr. Mobley?

Facelift patients come to Steven Mobley, MD, in Salt Lake City from Park City, Kamas, Provo, Lindon, Sandy, Draper, Murray, Taylorsville, Cottonwood Heights, Riverton and Herriman, drive in from Idaho, Montana, Jackson, Wyoming and Reno, Nevada, and fly in from across the country, from California and Texas to the East Coast. His patients include politicians, sports figures and other nationally known individuals, along with doctors, many doctors' wives, busy parents and business executives. Out-of-town patients stay in Salt Lake City for about 1 week, and our Patient Care Team makes that stay simple and discreet. For out-of-town patients, we can also help arrange in-person caregivers when desired.