Insight for elective practices.

News & Resources
Reputation
How Patients Choose a Doctor Now — and Why a Directory Often Decides First
The shortlist gets built before a patient ever reaches your website — on reviews, the map pack, AI answers, and a new layer of independent directories. Here's how those lists get made, and how to make sure you're on them.
Social
110 Plastic Surgeons With the Biggest Instagram Followings
A live research archive: the 110 plastic surgeons we found with the largest Instagram audiences — each with their profile, website, Google rating, domain authority, and site speed, captured June 2026.
SEO & Search
How Google Decides Who Wins Atlanta's Facelift Search
A full teardown of Atlanta's facelift market: who ranks, why, and exactly what the top practices do on Google, schema, and site speed. Our 2026 competitive research report.
Video
Video-First SEO: How a Surgeon on Camera Out-Ranks Every Text-Only Practice in Town
Google stopped rewarding the most pages and started rewarding the most trust. A surgeon on camera out-ranks the text-only practices in your market. Here's the full playbook.
Testimonials
The 3-Act Patient Testimonial That Books Consults, Not Just Collects Stars
A five-star review is proof; a patient's story is persuasion. The testimonials that actually book consults follow the same three acts every great story does.
Own your assets
Who Really Owns Your Website, Domain & Google Profile? For Most Practices, It Isn't Them
If you ever sell, relocate, or switch agencies, one question decides how painful it gets: who actually owns your digital front door? For most practices, it isn't them.
Funnels & CRO
Traffic Is Vanity: The Funnel That Turns Clicks Into Booked Consults
Traffic is vanity; a booked consult is revenue. Most practice sites collect visitors and quietly lose every one. Here's the funnel that turns a click into a calendar appointment.
Before / After
Before-and-After, Reinvented: Why Two Flat Photos Lose to Transformation in Motion
The before-and-after is the most persuasive asset in elective medicine, and two flat photos barely scratch it. In motion, it becomes the closest thing to watching the decision itself.
A decade of what actually works in elective-medicine marketing.
MAA · Video Case Study

Before & after.
Brought to life.

MAA paired quick on-camera sessions with Dr. Lacerna's own before-and-after work, turning static results into video that converts patients on every screen.

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Case DossierFIG. 01
ClientDr. Melinda Lacerna, MD, FACS
ScopeVideo · Reels · Web · Social
MarketBradenton & Sarasota, FL
Library40+ case-study videos
ChannelsYouTube · Instagram · Web · Lectures
Found FirstAI Overview · Maps · Video
ModelMAA × in-house team
Dr. Lacerna · Video still · Shot by MAA
The Surgeon

One of the most awarded faces in facial surgery.

  • 01Double board-certified in Plastic Surgery & General Surgery
  • 021,000+ facelifts performed
  • 03Inventor of the trademarked Plasma Lyft Ultra Facelift & Plasma Browlift
  • 04International keynote speaker: Seoul · Cartagena · Stockholm · Vancouver
  • 055× Aesthetic Award winner
5× Aesthetic Awards ISAPS ASPS FACS
Her best proof sat in before-and-after photos. Beautiful, but flat, silent, easy to scroll past. It needed to come alive. That's where MAA comes in.
Reels & Shorts

Made for the feed.
Phone-first.

The same case studies, cut vertical for Reels, Shorts and Stories, built for how patients actually scroll. Tap any to play.

The Work

The work speaks for itself.

43 real case studies, two shoots. Tap any to play.

Everywhere At Once

One production. Every platform.

The same trust, repeated across every channel a patient actually opens.

YouTubeYouTube InstagramInstagram FacebookFacebook Website Email Lectures
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@theskinplasmacenter
NarratedTransformations & explainers
InstagramInstagram
@drfacerejuvenator
86.6KFollowers · 1,668 posts
@drfacerejuvenator · Reel
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@drfacerejuvenator · Reel
@drfacerejuvenator · Post
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The Insight

Videos that set her apart.

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High-tech meets high-touch. Patients meet Dr. Lacerna before they ever book, and see the technology leader behind the results.

The Proof

Trust you can measure.

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Real YouTube analytics: one rhinoplasty case study, since published. 100% from search.

YouTube Studio analytics — 44.4K views, 383.9 watch-time hours, 45.8% average viewed, +144 subscribers from one rhinoplasty case study
YouTube Studio: one rhinoplasty case study, lifetime performance — and the video itself.
Found First

She owns video search.

Search “bradenton plastic surgeon” and the Videos tab is wall-to-wall Dr. Lacerna. That dominance is the tide. It lifts her AI answer, her map pack and her organic results right along with it.

Google Videos tab for 'bradenton plastic surgeon' — result after result is Dr. Melinda Lacerna / LA Plastic Surgery
5 of 6 results · Dr. Lacerna
Google Videos · “bradenton plastic surgeon”: five of the top six results are Dr. Lacerna. The tide that raises every other ranking.
Google AI Overview for 'bradenton facelift' — Dr. Melinda Lacerna / LA Plastic Surgery in the AI answer, top provider, cited sources, #1 organic and the map
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AI Overview · “bradenton facelift”: Dr. Lacerna in all five spots, the AI answer, top provider, cited source, #1 organic & the map.
Google AI Mode result featuring Dr. Lacerna
Clear #1 in AI
AI Mode · the #1 named practice in the answer
The team made it effortless. I just spoke, and they handled the rest, and patients arrive already trusting me.

Dr. Melinda Lacerna, MD, FACS LA Plastic Surgery · Bradenton, FL

The Model

This isn't a one-off. It's a repeatable system for any specialist.

Simple. Surgeon-led. Built once, working everywhere.