Last week, walking into my preferred Portland coffee shop, I heard the animated conversation at the adjacent table. “Have you seen Janet since her facelift?” one buddy muttered. “She still looks like herself even though she seems to have stolen ten years!!” Curious, I leaned in and found the buzz: Portland cannot stop talking about the local plastic surgeon who has reimagined the facelift. Click our extra resources for another topics!click our extra resources for another topics!
Dr. Avery Walsh is particularly unique for what? She considers every patient, first of all, as a collaborator in an art studio rather than a number on a surgical calendar. Before ever picking up a scalpel, Dr. Walsh spends almost an hour in conversation—learning personal tales, knowing each wrinkle’s past, and planning something that matches her patient’s personality, not a cookie-cutter checklist.
Consider Susan, a graphic designer who hated the concept of looking “pulled.” She talks about her experience as “creating a living sculpture together.” Dr. Walsh concentrated on small lifts—lifting jowls ever so gently, smoothing deep creases, and restoring natural curves along the jawline rather than dramatic changes. The outcome was Not screaming, a fresh face that friends refer to as “whispering” youth.
Then there was Tom, a sixty-year-old retired teacher who worried his facelift would make him unrecognizable. Rather, he surfaced looking a decade younger and “more like me than I have in years,” he notes. These days, his golf friends bug him about his secret; he just smiles and sips his afternoon chai.
Behind the scenes, Dr. Walsh’s method combines old-fashioned bedside manner with cutting-edge treatments including radio-frequency skin tightening and minimal-scar incisions. Her cozy, artistic clinic, complete with warm blankets and soothing music, seems more like a living room than an operating suite.
Above all, Portlanders appreciate honesty; Dr. Walsh delivers. Her facelifts improve your story; they do not wipe it out. Not surprisingly, every craft beer line and rain-drenched pavement is repeating her name. In a city that celebrates uniqueness, Dr. Walsh’s work is the facelift everyone is talking about.