Welcome to our special, comprehensive, private, and personalized practice. Here, we believe that individualization and personal attention are the keys to achieving natural-looking effects.
People are born with unique faces, eyelids, chins, and noses. They shouldn’t all have the same facelift, eyelid surgery, nose job, or even cosmetic injections.
Dr. Kane is dedicated to treating each patient as an individual. He does not believe in “cookie-cutter medicine.” In addition to medical training and his multi-decade experience performing aesthetic procedures, Dr. Kane has studied at the Parsons School of Design and attended film school at NYU. This broadening, image-focused training has helped Dr. Kane sharpen his eye toward accentuating and restoring the natural attractiveness particular to each patient.
As a plastic surgeon, Dr. Kane draws from his full range of medical knowledge, surgical skills, and sense of aesthetics to address each of his patient’s needs, in all areas of the body. His sensitive, patient-focused approach brings about both successful, satisfying outcomes in every surgery, as well as a comfortable experience through all stages of the process.
Dr. Michael Kane is an aesthetic plastic surgeon who has been practicing in New York City for over fifteen years. From his offices on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Dr. Kane performs a wide variety of cutting-edge cosmetic procedures, facial rejuvenation, and injections. Dr. Kane has been in private practice since 1992, and frequently lectures on topics relating to aesthetic plastic surgery.
Medical Education
Dr. Kane started his medical career at an early age. Before graduating high school, Dr. Kane was accepted into a five-year program in medical education at Pennsylvania State University, in conjunction with Jefferson Medical College. In five years, he received his undergraduate and medical degrees, and was a member of the Hobart Hare Honor Society.
Following his medical studies, Dr. Kane entered a general surgery residency at New York Medical College. During this residency, based at Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx, Dr. Kane provided sophisticated surgical care to patients affected by the urban violence that plagued this area in the 1980s.
From 1989 to 1991, Dr. Kane participated in a plastic surgical residency at Wright State University in Ohio. Following this, he completed an additional fellowship in aesthetic surgery at NYU, based at the Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital. There Dr. Kane studied under several of the nation’s preeminent cosmetic plastic surgeons, and also operated on his own patients. When Dr. Kane opened his practice in 1992, he had extensive surgical and clinical experience.
Dr. Kane is known for his pioneering work with injectables for cosmetic purposes while a fellow at the Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital. Over the past twenty years, Dr. Kane has taught thousands of physicians how to properly administer injectables through lectures and live demonstrations.
Dr. Kane is also a distinguished authority on correcting the tear trough and lower eyelid area using fillers. He authored the first scientific paper on this technique, and continues to lecture worldwide on the subject.
Lectures & Publication
Dr. Kane has published hundreds of papers throughout his career. His work has appeared in top scientific journals such as Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, The Aesthetic Surgery Journal, Dermatologic Surgery, and Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
Special topics of expertise on which he frequently lectures include: rejuvenation of the neck (eliminating the “cords” often seen below the chin); proper use of injectables around the crow’s feet area; use of injectables to elevate and shape the eyebrows; smoothing of smile and laugh lines; diminishing wrinkles around the chin and below the corners of the mouth; maximizing safety with each injection; and the effects of long-term injectables use for targeted muscle atrophy.
Board Certifications
American Board of Surgery
American Board of Plastic Surgery
Memberships
American Society of Plastic Surgeons
American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
American Society of Laser Medicine and Surgery
New York County Medical Society
Medical Society of the State of New York
