(763) 545-0443About Us – Minneapolis Plastic Surgery, Ltd.
As one of the most-respected and longest-existing aesthetic plastic surgery practices in the Minneapolis / St. Paul, Minnesota area, Minneapolis Plastic Surgery, Ltd. has improved the body image and quality of life of thousands of patients since its inception. Our American Board of Plastic Surgery-certified plastic surgeons, Dr. Douglas L. Gervais and Dr. Richard H. Tholen have over 55 years of combined experience performing plastic surgery of the face, breast, and body. Both have been peer-recognized as regional “Top Doctors” by Minneapolis / St. Paul Magazine for multiple years. Our surgeons’ goal is to always produce the most natural-looking results rather than a “tight,” unnatural, or operated-on appearance.
Accredited in-office Surgical Facility
Minneapolis Plastic Surgery, Ltd. features an on-site nationally-accredited (QUAD A, formerly AAAASF) surgical center with complete local-to-general anesthesia services. As one of few plastic surgical practices that offer this total level of care, our cosmetic surgery patients can receive state-of-the-art outpatient surgery safely and privately in our own dedicated facility, rather than in a hospital or hospital-affiliated surgicenter surrounded by sick patients and nasty viruses or bacteria!
Our Mission
It is the sincere goal of the surgeons and staff at Minneapolis Plastic Surgery, LTD. to provide for our patients the highest-quality plastic surgery experience and most pleasing natural results. To achieve this goal we will abide by the highest professional standards and truthfully represent our capabilities. We will thoroughly inform our patients and scrupulously guard their confidentiality.
We seek to enhance, restore, and refine the natural beauty that every patient already possesses by the creative and skillful application of advanced, but proven, techniques. No surgeon who is honest can guarantee perfect results every time, but we promise that we will strive to provide the best care, effort, and outcomes we are capable of. No one will try harder to surpass your expectations, anywhere.
At Minneapolis Plastic Surgery, LTD. we want to provide our patients with a lasting positive experience that makes them “patients for life,” as well as making us worthy of their recommendation to others.
Reconstructive Surgery (and a Brief History of MPS)
Both Dr. Gervais and Dr. Tholen have completed full, five-year residencies in General Surgery after their M.D. degrees, and both were certified by the American Board of Surgery after successfully completing both written and oral examinations. They both followed with an additional two years of sub-specialty training in plastic and reconstructive surgery, and both were certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery after rigorous written and oral examinations in this sub-specialty.
With over six decades of combined experience since joining Minneapolis Plastic Surgery (Dr. Tholen in 1987, Dr. Gervais in 1996), our plastic surgeons bring extensive training in all aspects of anatomy, physiology, and the specifics of surgical expertise to bear on the most difficult reconstructive and challenging cosmetic surgical problems. However, Minneapolis Plastic Surgery has always been a leader in aesthetic (cosmetic) plastic surgery, often first in introducing advanced new techniques and innovations to other plastic surgeons in the upper Midwest and throughout the country.
Minneapolis Plastic Surgery now works with Lending USA to provide patients with more financing options.
With the establishment of Carillon Clinic, Ltd. in 1997, a sister corporation owned and operated by the plastic surgeons at Minneapolis Plastic Surgery, this became one of the first plastic surgery/medi-spa partnerships to develop and advance skin/body care services to extend, amplify, and provide longer-term maintenance of their cosmetic surgical capabilities, with post-operative camouflage makeup, laser hair removal, microlaser and other facial peels, Botox, Juvederm, Radiesse, Sculptra, Voluma, Volbella, Kybella, skin pen (micro-needling), platelet-rich plasma (PRP), spider vein treatment, CoolSculpting nonsurgical fat removal, Hydrafacial, Vivace RF (radiofrequency) skin tightening, as well as facial peels including advanced and Obaji peels.
Carillon is now renamed Minneapolis Anti-Aging and Skin Clinic (MAASC), and as of 2022, proud to be partnered with Forefront Dermatology. MAASC offers physician-directed bio-identical hormone replacement therapy and other anti-aging technologies via Sara Sorensen, NP (Nurse Practitioner), and Britney Gorman, PA, (Physician’s Assistant).
MAASC also offers non-surgical fat reduction via the latest CoolSculpting® instrumentation and advances. We have considered this technology for some time, but found it did not meet our expectations in earlier forms. CoolSculpting® was first approved by the FDA for the treatment of fat on flanks (sides) in 2010, and then approved for the stomach in 2012. They developed and introduced better applicators, and a new model for the thighs was approved in 2015. Minneapolis Plastic Surgery continues to offer surgical fat removal via liposuction, but not every patient is a candidate for surgery or wants to undergo an operation and recovery. With MAASC now offering the latest CoolSculpting® advances, we can meet the needs and goals of even more patients requesting a sleeker body.
Many other physicians and non-physicians have subsequently opened skin spas and laser hair removal centers, but MPS and MAASC have been leaders and innovators in offering comprehensive physician supervision, higher standards of care, and more effective treatment options, while many of these competitors have long since closed their doors. Our plastic surgeons have been recognized for their expertise in this area as they are medical directors for both MAASC locations (across from MPS’ plastic surgical offices in Golden Valley, as well as in Maple Grove).
