About Dr. Marianne Prevot

• Post-graduate FMH specialist in plastic, reconstructive, and cosmetic surgery.
• MActive member of the International Society of Aesthetic and Plastic Surgery (I.S.A.P.S.) (International Society of Aesthetic and Plastic Surgery). www.isaps.org
• Active member of the Swiss Society of Plastic, Reconstructive, and Cosmetic Surgery SWISS PLASTIC SURGERY
• Active member of the American Society of Plastic Surgery : ASPS
• Head of the History Section of the SOFCPRE. www.plasticiens.org
• Active member of the French Society of Plastic, Reconstructive, and Cosmetic Surgery SOFCPRE.
• Active member of the Association of Medical Doctors of Geneva AMG
• Active member of the Waldensian Society of Medical Doctors SVM
• Secretary-General of the French Society of Plastic Surgeons SOFCEP SOFCEP (2005-2007).
• Instructor at Cochin-Tarnier hospital (Paris;1998-2008).
• Instructor at Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital (Paris 1993-1998)
• Former resident intern at Paris Hospitals ( AIHP- Hôpital St Louis, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Hôpital Necker-Enfants-Malades)
• Former Assistant Clinical Head of Paris Hospitals (ACCA-Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital).
• Swiss Federation of Medical Doctors (FMH N° 023254 – 56 03 / 93), www.fmh.ch
• Association of Medical Doctors of the canton of Geneva (AMG) www.amge.ch
• Waldensian Society of Medical Doctors (SVM) www.svmed.ch

Dr. Marianne Prevot is distinguished by numerous international scientific publications. She therefore contributes, with her colleagues from Switzerland and around the world, to the excellence of international plastic surgery.

Within the SOFCPRE :

Secretary of the History Chapter. Organization of Round Tables at the National Annual Congress.

2018 : History of breasts. History of mastectomy; the beginnings of breast reconstruction; controversies surrounding the use of silicone in the USA and Europe in the 1990s: what can we conclude 28 years later?; History of breast reduction surgery; Léon Pérèl (1910–1986) and breast reconstruction.

2019 : Transplantation throughout History. Organ transplantation and plastic surgery; Joseph Murray (1919–2012), plastic surgeon and Nobel Prize laureate; Hippolyte Morestin and fat grafting; History of cartilage grafts.

Author of the Master’s thesis in Philosophy (Ethires): “The Mission of Plastic Surgery”

Annual Report of Reconstructive and Aesthetic Plastic Surgery 2018 : Forehead aging: analysis and treatments. Elsevier.

Personal Work : Scientific presentations and publications

SOFCPRE 2015

Indications and contraindications of breast implants in the treatment of breast ptosis.

SFME 2012 (French Society of Aesthetic Medicine)

How to choose botulinum toxin? M. Prevot, MD.

ISAPS 2011

How to Ensure Final Breast Volume in Augmentation Mammaplasty. M. Prevot, MD.
Criteria for aging lips in women: a review of 100 cases aged 47 to 80. M. Prevot, MD.

SOFCPRE 2011

Criteria for lip aging in women: analysis of 100 women aged 40 to 80.

SOFCPRE 2010

Surgical treatment of complications related to aesthetic procedures. Marianne Prevot; Jacques Buis; Henry Delmar; Laurent Lantieri.

VIDEOFORUM TOULOUSE – SOFCPRE 2009

Complications of aesthetic body contouring surgery : liposuction and abdominoplasty. Literature review. M. Prevot, MD.

Dr Prevot’s Philosophy

“The pursuit of harmony, visual pleasure, and the emotion of calm fulfillment characterizes humanity and is reflected in the aesthetic quest of all reconstructive surgery. For Kant (Critique of Judgment, 1790), the aesthetic experience is a universal emotion : ‘That which pleases universally without concept is beautiful.’”

The term plastic comes from the Greek plastikós, meaning “to shape.” It was the name given by the Greeks to sculptures and representations of the human body. Plastic surgery is therefore the surgery of form and bodily modification, encompassing all procedures aimed at improving human form, regardless of the technique used.

Although it has existed since antiquity, plastic surgery truly developed worldwide at the beginning of the 20th century with the advancement of anesthesia and asepsis. Surgery had to be painless, and postoperative recovery needed to be free of complications. The two facets of this specialty, reconstructive surgery and aesthetic surgery, emerged during World War I with the treatment of “gueules cassées” (severely injured soldiers), and during the Roaring Twenties. Surgeons of that era developed the foundations of today’s techniques to reconstruct faces, hands, and breasts, and also to enhance their aesthetic appearance.

Originally performed to save lives, surgery also took on the mission of restoring function and, consequently, restoring form and visual appearance.

This restoration of the living is clearly illustrated when correcting a cleft lip and palate or a broken, deviated nose. Tissue aging is itself a form of degradation that physicians naturally attempt to treat. For example, heart failure is treated with cardiac stimulants; weakening of the aortic valve is addressed by implanting new valves, now often without open-heart surgery, to prolong life.

Cataract surgery, a condition of the lens most often related to aging, has been performed since antiquity. Today, the lens is replaced with an implant to preserve vision. In reconstructive and aesthetic surgery, we repair skin defects caused by skin cancers, redrape skin and tissues loosened by time, or transfer tissues to reconstruct a breast. While the need for reconstruction after an accident or illness is widely accepted, restoring an aged face or modifying a disharmonious body is often criticized.

This is because, deep down, operating on a healthy body feels like opening the door to something beyond our control, something that goes beyond humanity itself: either a challenge to death (treating aging) or a challenge to creation (treating non-pathological disharmony).

These challenges are at the root of many imaginary stories filled with taboos in both Western and Eastern cultures. In Asia and Latin America, beliefs and narratives differ, and there is not the same sense of guilt associated with requests for aesthetic surgery. Does this mean there should be no limits other than technical ones in transforming human appearance?

The role of the physician-surgeon is precisely to set those limits. Hippocrates showed us the way, and we have taken an oath. Medicine is an art; the surgeon practices this art but is not an artist. The aesthetic surgeon studies human beauty, understands the Four Books of Albrecht Dürer, Leonardo da Vinci’s proportions, facial harmony, and bodily function. He or she is not a creator, but a restorer, a reconstructor, a modifier.

My work as a physician and surgeon is to analyze patient requests (by listening, questioning, and remembering), to analyze the soft tissues and bones that make up bodies and faces, and to master medical, surgical, robotic, or regenerative techniques that have proven effective. Knowing does not mean doing everything.

Having practiced microsurgery earlier in my career allows me to identify its precise indications and, when appropriate, refer patients to a trusted colleague who performs these procedures regularly.

I do what is indicated, refuse excessive risk, and prioritize natural results. I believe the goal of my specialty is to help each individual harmonize body and mind through work on the body. Most often, my work brings genuine relief, a sign of perfect alignment between the modified body and the mind. The person is, in a sense, freed, from their body, from the flaw that troubled them, and can then fully devote themselves to all other aspects of life.

This is true whether treating a defect corrected by a single shaping procedure (such as breast reduction), or recurrent minor changes related to aging, treated once or twice a year, entrusted to me with peace of mind.