Professional Profile
Z. Paul Lorenc MD FACS is an aesthetic plastic surgeon who, in addition to his private practice, enjoys surgical privileges at Manhattan's finest hospitals.
Since establishing his Park Avenue practice in 1987, Dr. Lorenc has specialized in facial rejuvenation, breast enhancement and body contouring. He chose aesthetic plastic surgery as his medical specialty because it offers the ideal medical venue for combining his scientific expertise with an acute aesthetic sense of composition and proportion.
A Clinical Professor of Plastic Surgery at New York University School of Medicine, Dr. Lorenc is closely involved in the research and development of new advances in aesthetic surgical procedures. He is internationally recognized by his peers for initiating and perfecting endoscopic surgical techniques.
In 1997, Dr. Lorenc further advanced the field of endoscopic plastic surgery by patenting a bioabsorbable soft tissue suspension device (US Patent No. 5,611, 814 March 18 1997). By introducing this device into the procedure, Dr. Lorenc revolutionized the forehead lift. Since that time, the device has become integral to many other aesthetic and non aesthetic procedures.
Because of his expertise in body contouring procedures, Dr. Lorenc was chosen by his peers at Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital and NYU Medical Center to author "The Clinical Guidelines for Body Contouring and Liposuction," a manual continually referenced by health care professionals.
Dr. Lorenc is considered a pioneer in the development of the new generation of dermal fillers. As a leading authority in facial anatomy, he was the sole aesthetic plastic surgeon involved in clinical research for Restylane. Heading the largest clinical trial site for testing this hyaluronic acid soft tissue wrinkle filler, he tracked its safety and efficacy in blind studies of more than one hundred patients over a nine month period.
Based on this experience, Dr. Lorenc was selected as part of a team of experts who presented resulting data on Restylane to the US Government's Food and Drug Adminsitration Advisory Panel on November 22nd 2003, culminating in FDA confirmation for its use in the United States in December 2003.
Dr. Lorenc is the author of the bestseller "A Little Work…Behind The Doors Of A Park Avenue Plastic Surgeon." (St. Martin’s Press 2004.) Through its pages, readers can experience all they want and need to know about plastic surgery, whether as a future patient or curious observer. For those contemplating "a little work" for themselves, the book offers a physician's perspective on the latest aesthetic procedures.