Training and board certification
Source for all rows: source
| Stage | Detail |
|---|---|
| Medical school | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, graduated with distinction in research |
| Residency | Head and Neck Surgery, Washington University in St. Louis |
| Fellowship | Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Northwestern University, certified by the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (AAFPRS) |
- Double board-certified: American Board of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, and American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
- More than 40 peer-reviewed publications and several book chapters.
- Awarded a Doris Duke Clinical Research Foundation Grant and a T32 research fellowship from the National Institutes of Health.
- Elected Chair of the Section for Residents and Fellows of the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS); received the AAO-HNS Holt Leadership Award in 2018.
Eyelid surgery work
- Upper blepharoplasty. Removes or repositions excess skin and fat through an incision in the natural eyelid crease; can improve vision when excess skin obstructs sight. Takes about one hour, outpatient, under local anesthesia with sedation or general anesthesia (source).
- Lower blepharoplasty. Addresses under-eye bags and loose skin; the page states Dr. Vila uses a transconjunctival incision (inside the lid) for fat work without skin removal, or a subciliary incision (below the lash line) when skin tightening is needed. Takes one to two hours (source).
- Tear trough correction. A non-surgical, filler-based procedure to reduce under-eye hollows (source).
- Brow lift. Performed as an endoscopic brow lift, using small hairline incisions to elevate the brow and reduce eyelid drooping (source).
- Separate pages market male upper eyelid lift, male lower eyelid lift and male brow lift, describing the same procedures for men's anatomy (source, source, source).
Recovery: after upper blepharoplasty, most patients return to work in seven to ten days and sutures come out within the first week. After lower blepharoplasty, swelling and bruising are most noticeable in the first week. After a brow lift, swelling/bruising lasts seven to ten days and normal activity resumes in ten to fourteen days.
Gallery: separate before-and-after pages for upper blepharoplasty, lower blepharoplasty and brow lift, each showing real, watermarked patient photos (source, source, source).
The practice site has no canthoplasty, ptosis repair, or double-eyelid surgery pages.
Other procedures
The site also lists facelift, revision facelift, deep plane facelift, deep neck lift, chin augmentation, neck and chin liposuction, ear pinning, earlobe repair, lip lift, forehead reduction, fat grafting, buccal fat pad removal, scar revision, rhinoplasty, and non-surgical injectables and laser treatments (portlandfacedoctor.com).
Insurance and cost
The male upper eyelid lift page states health insurance may cover the procedure if the vision obstruction is significant enough; the practice site has no general insurance statement. Published prices: upper blepharoplasty $3,500-$5,000 (pricing page) or $4,000-$7,000 (its own procedure page, a discrepancy between the two pages); lower blepharoplasty $11,000-$14,000; tear trough correction $750; brow lift $7,000-$9,000 (source).