// The surgeon

John LoMonaco, MD FACS.

Board-certified in plastic and reconstructive surgery. Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. Practicing at 17226 Mercury Drive in Houston's Bay Area, where the NASA corridor meets the Gulf Coast.

Dr. John LoMonaco MD FACS, Houston plastic surgeon
// The practitioner

Dr. John LoMonaco

MD · FACS · Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery · Houston TX

Dr. John LoMonaco is a board-certified plastic and reconstructive surgeon practicing in Houston, Texas. He holds the Fellow designation of the American College of Surgeons (FACS) — a peer-reviewed credential awarded to surgeons who meet rigorous standards of surgical competence, ethical conduct, and ongoing education.

His practice on Mercury Drive serves patients from across Houston, Galveston, Pearland, League City, Clear Lake, and the broader Gulf Coast region. Dr. LoMonaco personally performs every surgical procedure and personally sees every patient at every follow-up visit. There are no associate surgeons in the operating room and no hand-offs to clinical staff for post-operative care.

Dr. LoMonaco's surgical range covers the full breadth of plastic and reconstructive surgery: facial procedures (facelift, rhinoplasty, blepharoplasty, brow lift, neck lift), breast surgery (augmentation, lift, reduction, implant revision), and body contouring (tummy tuck, BBL, liposuction, mommy makeover, arm lift, thigh lift). He also maintains a non-surgical injectable practice for patients in ongoing care.

Areas of practice
  • Facelift & Neck Lift
  • Rhinoplasty
  • Blepharoplasty
  • Breast Augmentation
  • Breast Lift & Reduction
  • Tummy Tuck
  • Brazilian Butt Lift
  • Liposuction
  • Mommy Makeover
  • Body Contouring
  • Injectables
// 01 · The practice

Plastic surgery has a reputation problem — and it earned it. Overcrowded waiting rooms designed to process volume. Consultations that last fifteen minutes and end with a printed quote. Surgeons whose names appear on the letterhead but whose hands rarely appear on the patient. Dr. LoMonaco built his Houston practice as the deliberate opposite of that model.

Every patient who walks into 17226 Mercury Drive is seen by the surgeon who will operate on them. The first consultation isn't a formality; it's where the procedure is decided — together, with every question answered and every concern addressed before anyone mentions a date or a price. If the right answer is to wait, or to try a non-surgical option first, or to decline the procedure entirely, that's what the patient hears.

The results that follow from that model tend to be quieter than the work coming out of high-volume practices. Patients who see Dr. LoMonaco's work don't often say their friends look "done." They say they look well-rested, or healthier, or somehow better than they did five years ago — and they can't quite say why. That's the outcome Dr. LoMonaco plans for: a version of you that looks like it arrived naturally, and that will still look right in a decade.

// 02 · The principles

Three things that don't change.

These aren't marketing copy. They're the operating rules of the practice — the things that determine how consultations run, how procedures get planned, and what happens when the answer is "no."

01

The surgeon you consult is the surgeon who operates.

Dr. LoMonaco performs every procedure himself. Not a fellow, not an associate, not a rotating partner. If you consult with him, he's in the operating room. Full stop.

02

No procedure before it's the right answer.

There's no quota on consultations that end without a surgery booking. If the right advice is "not yet," "not this procedure," or "this doesn't need surgery," that's the advice you receive. No exception.

03

Plan for the decade, not the photograph.

Surgical planning looks forward. The filler trend of 2024 may be the revision problem of 2028. Every procedure is evaluated for how it will read naturally over time, not just on the day of the reveal.

// 03 · Credentials

Qualifications & affiliations.

Board certification and FACS designation are the two credentials that matter most in plastic surgery — they represent independent peer review of surgical competence and clinical standards, not self-designation.

Board Certification American Board of Plastic Surgery
Fellowship Fellow, American College of Surgeons (FACS)
Specialty Society American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS)
Location 17226 Mercury Drive · Houston TX 77058
Practice Phone (713) 526-5550
Social IG @drjo.lo · FB /HoustonPlasticSurgery

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