Training and board certification
The site states he is a board certified plastic surgeon without naming the specific board. He completed an integrated plastic surgery residency at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and was inducted into the AOA medical school honor society. He is a clinical professor for Georgetown University Plastic Surgery, where he has taught over 100 residents, medical students and other surgeons. He was formerly Chief of the Plastic Surgery Department at MedStar Washington Hospital Center. He has performed over 15,000 surgeries over more than 20 years, moved to Washington, DC in 2007, and transitioned to private practice roughly a decade before the bio page's writing. He has been voted a Washingtonian Top Doctor more than 10 times and named a Castle Connolly top doctor for multiple years (source).
Eyelid surgery work
- Upper blepharoplasty. Removes loose skin and, if needed, fat from the upper eyelid to relieve heaviness and visual obstruction; performed under local anesthesia in-office with an incision hidden in the natural eyelid crease; the site calls the skin-removal step "pinch blepharoplasty." Sometimes combined with a brow lift. Recovery: nearly fully healed without bruising or swelling by 2 weeks. The page states this surgery is performed in "Dr. Praful Ramineni's surgery center" in Washington, DC (upper eyelid surgery).
- Lower blepharoplasty. Two techniques described: transconjunctival (incision inside the eyelid, no external scar, used for fat-only cases, no sutures to remove) and subciliary (incision just below the lash line to remove excess skin and reposition fat, sutures removed a few days after surgery). Recovery: bruising and swelling mostly to fully resolved within 2 weeks. Cost is not published; the site says it depends on technique and other factors, confirmed at consultation (lower eyelid surgery).
- Brow lift. Lifts the eyebrows and removes excess forehead skin, done alone or combined with upper or lower eyelid surgery or a facelift; incisions at or behind the hairline or at the top of the scalp, closed with sutures. The page states the brow lift at this practice is performed by Dr. Ramineni and Dr. Cassie Nghiem (brow lift).
Other procedures
The practice covers a full range of plastic surgery: facelift/neck lift, rhinoplasty, body contouring (abdominoplasty, liposuction, Brazilian butt lift, arm lift, thigh lift, back lift), breast surgery (augmentation, lift, reduction, revision), and a large gender affirmation surgery practice (vaginoplasty, top surgery, facial feminization/masculinization, body feminization/masculinization), plus reconstructive surgery for breast cancer, skin cancer and post-traumatic injury (source).