The Best Beauty Surgeons

While skin-smoothing lasers, peels, Botox, and other wrinkle erasers are incredibly fast-growing noninvasive procedures (and are performed regularly by most of the plastic and cosmetic surgeons listed here), going under the knife remains the gold standard if you’re looking to significantly rejuvenate your face and body. This list is composed of doctors whose names are currently being whispered at dinner parties and texted between friends; it is but a small sample of the thousands of physicians in the U.S. who performed nearly 1.6 million cosmetic surgical procedures in 2012. The top five requests: breast augmentation, nose reshaping, eyelid surgery, liposuction, and face-lift.