Dr. Edwin Williams is a double board-certified facial plastic surgeon who founded The Williams Center in 1993. He has performed over 10,000 facial plastic surgery procedures and has pioneered the deep plane facelift. He served on the Board of Directors for the American Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery for over a decade, and served as President from 2015-2016. In 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019, Dr. Williams earned the Castle Connelly Top Doctors award in New York Facial Plastic Surgery.
Dr. Edwin F. Williams III attended Cornell University in Ithaca, New York where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1982. He began medical school at the State University of Buffalo School of Medicine and received his Doctor of Medicine in 1986.
Dr. Williams is actively involved in teaching facial plastic and reconstruction surgery to the residents of the Albany Medical Center and is former Chief of the Section of Facial and Plastic Reconstruction Surgery at Albany Medical Center where he received an academic appointment of Clinical Professor, Department of Surgery.
In 2019, facelift surgery was the fifth-most common plastic surgery procedure. At The Williams Surgery, patients who want to reduce the signs of aging in their face often contact us with questions about the facelift procedure. More often than not, the decision is then made to schedule a consultation with our facial plastic surgery specialist,…
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Read MoreBuccal fat pads are structures that we are all born with. They lie within our cheeks, and there is one on each side. As we get older, we tend to lose some of the fat underneath the skin in our face, but the buccal fat pads remain the same size. With time, this can result…
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Read MoreA blepharoplasty, or eyelid surgery, is a procedure that removes excess skin, muscle, and/or fat from the eyelids. There are both cosmetic and functional reasons to have this surgery. A frequently asked question from patients is, “When is a blepharoplasty a medically necessary procedure?” The first aspect to consider is the motivation for seeking surgical…
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Read More“Facelift” is one of the more confusing terms in the cosmetic surgery industry. The formal name for a facelift surgery is “rhytidectomy,” which translates to surgical removal (-ectomy) of undesirable wrinkles (rhytid(s)-). This is not an entirely accurate description because we do not surgically excise each of the wrinkles — this would leave a very…
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