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“Aesthetic surgery has been trivialised in the public conversation. The serious work — the work that ages well, the work that doesn’t betray itself in five years — depends on understanding the patient’s anatomy in detail and recommending only what genuinely suits them. Sometimes that means a smaller intervention than the patient asked for. Sometimes it means none at all.”
— Dr. Luana Salvagni, Maxillofacial Surgeon

Dr.
Luana Salvagni

Specialist in Maxillofacial Surgery on the plastic surgery team at Palazzo Manzoni in Brescia. Face surgery, dermatological surgery, and aesthetic medicine — with the particular anatomical literacy maxillofacial training brings to orbital, nasal, mid-face and chin work.

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Areas of clinical practice

Background and Clinical Practice

Background and
clinical practice

Dr. Luana Salvagni is a Specialist in Maxillofacial Surgery on the plastic surgery team at Istituto Chirurgico Palazzo Manzoni in Brescia. Her clinical practice covers face surgery and dermatological surgery, with a particular concentration on the procedures where maxillofacial training brings specific anatomical advantages — orbital surgery (eyelid ptosis, ectropion and entropion correction), nasal surgery (rhinoplasty, rhinoseptoplasty), mid-face and zygomatic work, mentoplasty, and the surgical management of skin and soft-tissue lesions of the face. She also performs aesthetic medicine.

Dr. Salvagni is one of the three named authors of the Profilosalute “Bellezza” column corpus on which the practice’s published clinical voice is built, alongside Dr. Enrico Motta and Dr. Stefano Di Nonno. Her recent columns — covering aesthetic medicine, blepharochalasis, buccal-fat removal, the aesthetic refinement of the nose, and skin ageing — set the editorial register the website voice mirrors.

Her maxillofacial training is a distinct credential: it is not a sub-specialisation of plastic surgery but a medical-surgical specialty in its own right, with its own training, national examinations, and academic pathway.

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Training and Qualifications

Training and
qualifications

Placeholder framework. Full credential details are being confirmed with Dr. Salvagni and will be updated before this page goes live.

Specialist qualification

Specialist in Maxillofacial Surgery

Institution and year to be confirmed

Further training

Aesthetic medicine training

Details to be confirmed

Professional society memberships

SICMF, SIME, ESPRAS, or others as Dr. Salvagni confirms

Membership details to be confirmed

Hospital affiliations

Affiliations to be confirmed

As Dr. Salvagni confirms

Dr. Salvagni’s published columns and her clinical practice share the philosophy that runs through the department: restraint over scope, anatomical literacy over trend, and the explicit refusal of procedures performed without proper diagnosis. Her column on aesthetic medicine framed this directly — that the field has been banalised, that patients deserve a real diagnostic conversation before any treatment, and that the doctor’s willingness to say no is the strongest indicator of competence.

She emphasises:

Restraint over scope

Only what genuinely suits the patient — sometimes a smaller intervention than the one asked for, sometimes none at all.

Anatomical literacy over trend

The patient’s detailed anatomy guides the plan, not fashion — the work that ages well depends on understanding it.

A planning-led consultation

Examination, photographic documentation, layer-by-layer anatomical analysis, and a written plan before anything is decided.

Non-surgical alternatives, considered explicitly

Where a non-surgical option is the proportionate answer, it is put on the table — a place to think calmly again.

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Orbital and eyelid surgery

Blepharoplasty, eyelid ptosis correction (levator advancement, Müller’s muscle conjunctival resection, frontalis sling in selected congenital cases), ectropion and entropion correction. The anatomical depth of maxillofacial training at the orbital rim, the canthal complex, and the levator system is a clinical advantage in this work.

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Nasal surgery

Rhinoplasty and rhinoseptoplasty, with the bone-and-soft-tissue training maxillofacial surgery provides at the nasal-bone, septum, and turbinate level. Her published column on the aesthetic refinement of the nose and the rhinoplasty-versus-rhinofiller distinction reflects her clinical practice in this area.

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Mid-face, mentoplasty, and buccal-fat removal

Temporal and zygomatic lifts, malaroplasty, mentoplasty (additive and reductive, including sliding genioplasty in larger discrepancies), buccal-fat removal. Her published column on buccal-fat removal is one of the corpus’s clearest examples of the department’s voice on appropriate patient selection for aesthetic procedures.

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Dermatological surgery of the face

Excision of skin lesions and scar revision, with the closure techniques that respect the face’s specific tension lines and aesthetic units.

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Aesthetic medicine

Non-surgical injectables, peels, and biostimulators, particularly for patients building a long-term plan that combines surgical and non-surgical work.

Dr. Salvagni is one of six specialists on the plastic surgery team at Palazzo Manzoni. Each specialist has distinct clinical focus areas. Your initial consultation determines who is the right match for your case.