What "best dermal fillers surgeon in Long Island" actually means
Long Island has no shortage of dermal fillers surgeons, and the honest version of "best" is a credential you can check rather than a name someone ranked. The Long Island market splits into three genuine groups: academic-affiliated surgeons operating at Stony Brook University Hospital, high-volume private practices in the Woodbury–Great Neck corridor, and lower-cost providers in outer Nassau and Suffolk. All three exist; they differ in credential and price, not in whether the operation is real. The rest of this page prices each group and shows you how to verify the credential in about ten minutes.
There is no regulator, registry or survey that ranks New York City plastic surgeons, so any site claiming a definitive top-five list is either reproducing a paid directory placement or inventing one. What can be ranked honestly is credential, facility accreditation, caseload and price — and that is exactly what the table below compares.
Long Island vs Manhattan for dermal fillers
Long Island and Manhattan differ mainly in overhead, not in surgical skill. Facility fees, staffing and rent are lower on the island, which pulls most procedures into the New Jersey price tier rather than the Manhattan tier. The size of that gap is not the same for every procedure, and on a few — where the island has a thinner surgeon pool for that operation — the Long Island band is the higher of the two. Each page states its own numbers rather than promising a fixed discount. For dermal fillers that means $650–$1,050 all-in on Long Island against $800–$1,500 in Manhattan — about 26% below Manhattan at the midpoint of each band.
The practical difference is aftercare, not the operation. Follow-ups at 1 day, 1 week, 3 weeks and 6 months are where Long Island and Manhattan surgeons diverge in convenience: a Manhattan practice can put you on a Midtown operating room and a follow-up on the same trip, while a Long Island patient travelling to the city is often better served keeping both in their own market.
Ask which hospital holds the surgeon’s operating privileges, not which office they consult in. A surgeon can consult in Manhattan and operate on Long Island, and the reverse, and neither tells you anything about the credential itself.
Where the volume actually is
- Woodbury (Nassau) — The OLI corridor — closest substitute for Manhattan, highest Long Island prices.
- Great Neck (Nassau) — Classic private-practice corridor, Port Washington border.
- Mineola (Nassau) — Hospital-anchored private practice around Winthrop.
- Roslyn (Nassau) — High-income corridor, office-based practices common.
- Garden City (Nassau) — Garden City Park and surrounding enclaves.
- Massapequa (Nassau) — South Nassau, high caseload per surgeon.
- Rockville Centre (Nassau) — South Nassau, LIRR-accessible to Penn Station.
- Stony Brook (Suffolk) — University Hospital corridor, academic-affiliated.
- Smithtown (Suffolk) — Central Suffolk, St. Joseph Hospital.
- Huntington (Suffolk) — Long Island’s largest population centre.
- Commack (Suffolk) — Central Suffolk, high private-practice density.
- Patchogue (Suffolk) — South Suffolk, including Shirley and Mastic.
- Riverhead (Suffolk) — East end, including Westhampton and Southampton.
- Port Jefferson (Suffolk) — East end, St. Joseph Hospital.
Long Island hospitals with plastic surgery privileges
- Glen Cove Hospital — Nassau County.
- Plainview Hospital (Northwell) — Nassau County.
- North Shore University Hospital — Nassau County.
- Winthrop University Hospital — Nassau County.
- St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center — Nassau County.
- Stony Brook University Hospital — Suffolk County.
- St. Joseph Hospital — Suffolk County.
- South Shore University Hospital — Suffolk County.
For the Manhattan-versus-Jersey gap on the same procedure, see the dermal fillers cost guide, and the 2026 price index for every procedure side by side.
The five types of dermal fillers surgeon in NYC and Long Island, side by side
Almost every Long Island or NYC patient ends up comparing a handful of practices without knowing what tier they are actually looking at. These are the five, priced against our published 2026 ranges, with the Long Island band set at the New Jersey price level — $650–$1,050 against $800–$1,500 in Manhattan. All figures are all-in — surgeon, anesthesia and facility combined.
| Practice type | Board certification | Hospital | Price range (per unit/session) | Recovery | Revision policy | Reviews: what to expect |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Academic medical centre NYU Langone, Columbia/NewYork-Presbyterian, Mount Sinai, Weill Cornell |
ABPS is the standard here — all academic plastic surgery programmes are ABPS-accredited | Full operative privileges; cases admitted to the flagship hospital | $650–$1,050 | None, work the same day | Institutional consent process, 24h resident coverage, complications escalated to the hospital | Reviews typically live on the hospital and Healthgrades, not a private marketing site |
| Manhattan private practice Upper East Side, Park Ave / Madison Ave, Upper West Side, SoHo |
ABPS is the standard; AAFPRS/ABFPRS for face and nose only. Some osteopathic-trained surgeons hold AOBS instead — a real board, but not ABMS-recognised | Privileges at Mount Sinai, NYU Langone, Lenox Hill, Weill Cornell or MSK | $650–$1,000 | None, work the same day | Surgeon-specific written policy; ask whether touch-ups within 12 months are included | 200+ reviews at 4.8-5.0 across RealSelf, Healthgrades and Google is the real bar |
| Outer-borough NYC practice Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx |
Name the board, then verify it. A practice that says "board certified" without naming the board has told you nothing | Maimonides, NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn, Mount Sinai Brooklyn, Montefiore | $550–$950 | None, work the same day | Surgeon-specific written policy; confirm the named surgeon operates, not an associate | Volume lower than Manhattan; read every one-star review, not the average |
| New Jersey, Westchester & Long Island Bergen, Essex, Morris, Monmouth; Westchester; Nassau and Suffolk |
ABPS standard, AOBS common among osteopathic-trained surgeons. Verify at the named board, not the practice website | Hackensack Meridian, Cooperman Barnabas, Hackensack University, Glen Cove, Plainview, North Shore, Lenox Hill Greenburgh | $650–$1,050 | None, work the same day | Often the most generous written revision policy in the metro — worth asking about explicitly | Check whether reviews are for the surgeon or the practice as a whole |
| Discount / non-plastic-surgery board Bargain centres, med-spa clinics, unlicensed or unverified providers |
RED FLAG — no ABPS certification, or "board certified" by a body with no ABMS recognition | RED FLAG — no hospital privileges, or an unaccredited office suite | $350–$600 | None, work the same day | RED FLAG — no written revision policy, or a "free touch-up" that is really a paid second procedure | RED FLAG — review pages that are astroturfed, gated or rewritten; volume under 50 is meaningless |
Verified dermal fillers surgeons in NYC and Long Island
The entry below is a named practice with a source we checked ourselves, and the credential is stated as precisely as the evidence allows — including where it falls short of the ABPS standard. Where a rating would normally sit, we say "not published" rather than fill the gap. It is the only surgeon we could verify for this procedure so far; we would rather publish one name we can source than a list we cannot.
Anthony Buglino, D.O.
Woodbury, NY (Nassau County, Long Island) · NPI 1407166218 · NY licence 258986
Full verified profile & credential breakdown · Practice website · Board certification record
| Board certification | Hospital | Price | Reviews | Revision policy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Osteopathic Board of Surgery (AOBS), Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Not ABMS-recognised |
Glen Cove Hospital, Plainview Hospital | Not published | Not published | Not published |