Stephen M. Krant, MD, FACS


528 Nautilus St.
LA JOLLA, CA 92037
Practice Name: 
Stephen Krant, MD, FACS
Practice Description:
We specialize in all aspects of reconstructive and cosmetic surgery at SK Clinic in La Jolla, San Diego. Our goal with every cosmetic surgery procedure at our San Diego area clinic is to achieve a positive, natural outcome. Whether we are enhancing the face or a specific area of the body with cosmetic surgery procedures, or restoring appearance and function to face or other areas of the body traumatized by injury or disease, our goal is to achieve a youthful new look.

Dr. Stephen Krant, renowned reconstructive and cosmetic surgeon in La Jolla, believes that positive outcome flows from the physical to the psychological and the emotional. Our patients tell us time and again how the physical enhancement touches virtually every aspect of their lives.

Our cosmetic surgeon team in La Jolla pursues an integrative medical approach, making use of the resources at SK Sanctuary, our outstanding medical day spa. Combining cosmetic surgery practices with day spa treatments, our cosmetic surgery team in La Jolla comprehensively treats the whole person. This thorough approach improves the quality of the healing process and decreases the time to recover. Included with every cosmetic surgery procedure at our San Diego area clinic are vitamin regimens before and after surgery, a skin care consultation, and rejuvenating spa treatments. The result achieves a balance of physical improvement and an overall feeling of well-being.

The Face. The Body. The Mind. The focus at SK Clinic.
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Languages Spoken:
English, Spanish

Years in Practice:
32
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Education:
Dr. Stephen Krant , medical director and respected cosmetic surgeon at SK Clinic in the San Diego area, is a graduate of Emory University and the Yale University School of Medicine. He completed his general surgery residency at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center, Chicago. From there he returned to Yale New Haven Hospital where he completed an outstanding residency in reconstructive and cosmetic surgery.

Certifications:
He is board certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery, is a member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) and the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS), and he is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (F.A.C.S.).

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I recently had surgery to reduce the size of my eyelids. I am 60 years old and wanted an "age appropriate" change. I am so happy with the outcome. I can see better, and I look younger! The office staff is wonderful to work with. The aftercare is superb! I would never go to anyone else!1/14/2009
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Dr. Krant is the most amazing doctor and he made feel so important. He has made my body look so much better, and I feel great about myself. His staff was amazing, and always made me feel comfortable. Thanks Dr. Krant, and my husband loves the results!1/9/2009
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Dr S. Krant is a most amazing man, he not only makes you look great but feel good too. He loves women, his wife most of all, but all of his artwork in the office is of beautiful full figured women. He genuinely loves helping women feel better about themselves. Plus I look great! Thanks to DR K.1/9/2009

Selected Procedure

Procedure DetailsPrice 
Rhinoplasty
The true art of what we do at SK Clinic is evident in the variety of facial contouring procedures we perform. If you aspire to a reshaped nose, cheeks or chin, contouring is an effective technique to achieve the look you want. In the case of nose reshaping, or rhinoplasty, the result can be both cosmetic and medical, as your breathing can be effectively improved.

The result is a nose that is contoured to your desires, whether to remove a bulbous bridge, to minimize nostrils, to trim the width of the nose, or to give the tip more definition. Whatever the desired outcome, a naturally reshaped nose can bring life and vibrancy to any face.

Includes: Through inconspicuous incisions, made inside the nostril we are able to reshape the nasal structure either by sculpting bone or cartilage or by adding cartilage as needed.
Excludes: Operating room fees and Anesthesia
Total Cost:
$4,300.00
DUE NOW:
$300.00

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Procedure DetailsPrice 
Botox- Crows Feet
BOTOX - injection site - Crows Feet only.

Includes: BOTOX - 20 units Botox Cosmetic - Crows Feet only.
Total Cost:
$220.00
DUE NOW:
$20.00
Botox- Glabella
BOTOX - one injection site - glabella only. The glabella is the area between the eyebrows.

Includes: BOTOX - 20 units Botox Cosmetic in one injection site - glabella only. The glabella is the area between the eyebrows.
Total Cost:
$220.00
DUE NOW:
$20.00
Breast Augmentation
At SK Clinic in La Jolla, we understand the decision to have breast augmentation is a very personal one that can have a truly positive impact on your confidence, self-image, and feeling of attractiveness. Many of our patients have declared that breast augmentation performed at our San Diego area surgical center has truly changed their lives by increasing confidence and zest for life.

You may be unhappy with your breasts because they never grew as fully as you desired, or one grew disproportionate to the other. Or, often after weight loss, or childbirth and breast-feeding, the breasts can lose volume and shape. As performed at SK Clinic in La Jolla, outside San Diego, breast augmentation adds volume to the breast mound for a natural, fuller, more youthful shape. Breast augmentation may be performed alone if only volume is desired. However, breast augmentation may also be performed in combination with a breast lift for maximum benefit, correcting both volume and shape. With minimal incisions made inconspicuously at the lower portion of the areola (the pigmented portion of the nipple), the implant is placed either under the breast tissue or the breast muscles. There are many types of safe, FDA approved breast implants available including those containing silicone gel or those filled with saline. Breast augmentation at our San Diego area clinic, is a procedure that has advanced in popularity, safety, and overall patient satisfaction over the past decade. You will love the results because this is an individualized procedure that specifically addresses your personal desires.

Excludes: The implant, Operating room, Anesthesia
Total Cost:
$3,300.00
DUE NOW:
$300.00
Endoscopic Brow Lift
The brow or forehead can be your facial barometer. Stress and fatigue take up residence for all to see in the form of furrows, creases, sagging eyelids, and the dreaded frown line. At SK Clinic in the San Diego area, the endoscopic brow lift is a safe, precise, and patient-friendly procedure for dealing with the brow that can effectively erase these facial furrows.

We are certain you will be delighted with the results every time you look in the mirror.

Includes: As performed at SK Clinic in San Diego, the endoscopic brow lift is a minimally invasive procedure, performed through a series of vertical incisions made just behind the hairline. During an endoscopic brow lift the forehead skin is not lifted, nor is any skin or hair removed. Using an endoscope, the forehead skin is released, the frown lines and muscles are lessened, and the eyebrows are stabilized to a more natural and youthful position. The result is a smooth brow that shows little signs of age, stress or fatigue, but without the look of "surprise" that can often be equated with such a procedure.
Excludes: Operating room fees and Anesthesia
Total Cost:
$3,900.00
DUE NOW:
$400.00
Face Lift
Gravity is no friend to the face. As you age, your skin loses its firmness, elasticity, and its ability to resist gravity. As a result, jowls and slackness in the skin between the chin and the neck develop.

At SK Clinic, located north of San Diego in La Jolla, facelift is designed to restore the youthful contour of your face. This manipulation of the deeper tissues creates more lasting results that are not dependent on the skin alone.

The result is more pronounced cheekbones, a smoother jawline, and a more youthful appearance.

Includes: Discrete incisions are made within the ear crease and into the hairline. The hairline is completely restored without telltale scars. Fat is sculpted and excess fat and skin are removed, while deeper tissues such as muscles and fascia are tightened.
Excludes: Operating room fees and anesthesia
Total Cost:
$10,400.00
DUE NOW:
$400.00
Fraxel Repair -Face & Neck
The newest product in the Fraxel family, Fraxel repair treatment is a preemptive strike against a facelift. The treatment tightens skin and corrects severe damage. It treats wrinkles, irregular texture, age spots/sunspots, sun-induced redness. You may return to routine activities within a week.

Includes: Fraxel Repair- Face and Neck
Excludes: Operating room fees and Anesthesia
Total Cost:
$7,400.00
DUE NOW:
$400.00
Fraxel Repair- Chest
The newest product in the Fraxel family, Fraxel repair treatment is a preemptive strike against a facelift. The treatment tightens skin and corrects severe damage. It treats wrinkles, irregular texture, age spots/sunspots, sun-induced redness. You may return to routine activities within a week.

Includes: Fraxel Repair Chest only
Excludes: Operating room fees and Anesthesia
Total Cost:
$3,400.00
DUE NOW:
$400.00
Fraxel Repair- Face Only
The newest product in the Fraxel family, Fraxel repair treatment is a preemptive strike against a facelift. The treatment tightens skin and corrects severe damage. It treats wrinkles, irregular texture, age spots/sunspots, sun-induced redness. You may return to routine activities within a week.

Includes: Fraxel Repair Face
Excludes: Operating room fees and anesthesia
Total Cost:
$6,400.00
DUE NOW:
$400.00
Fraxel Repair- Face/ Neck/ Chest
The newest product in the Fraxel family, Fraxel repair treatment is a preemptive strike against a facelift. The treatment tightens skin and corrects severe damage. It treats wrinkles, irregular texture, age spots/sunspots, sun-induced redness. You may return to routine activities within a week.

Includes: Fraxel Repair-Face/Neck/Chest
Excludes: Operating room fees and Anesthesia
Total Cost:
$8,400.00
DUE NOW:
$400.00
Fraxel Repair- Hands
The newest product in the Fraxel family, Fraxel repair treatment is a preemptive strike against a facelift. The treatment tightens skin and corrects severe damage. It treats wrinkles, irregular texture, age spots/sunspots, sun-induced redness. You may return to routine activities within a week.

Includes: Fraxel repair- Hands
Excludes: Operating room fees and Anesthesia
Total Cost:
$2,200.00
DUE NOW:
$400.00
Fraxel Repair- Neck
The newest product in the Fraxel family, Fraxel repair treatment is a preemptive strike against a facelift. The treatment tightens skin and corrects severe damage. It treats wrinkles, irregular texture, age spots/sunspots, sun-induced redness. You may return to routine activities within a week.

Includes: Fraxel Repair- Neck Only
Excludes: Operating room fees and Anesthesia
Total Cost:
$2,400.00
DUE NOW:
$400.00
Fraxel Repair- Periorbital
The newest product in the Fraxel family, Fraxel repair treatment is a preemptive strike against a facelift. The treatment tightens skin and corrects severe damage. What it treats: wrinkles, irregular texture, age spots/sunspots, sun-induced redness. Downtime: Return to routine activities within a week.

Includes: Fraxel Repair -Periorbital
Excludes: Operating room fees and Anesthesia
Total Cost:
$1,540.00
DUE NOW:
$40.00
Juvederm Ultra
Juvederm is a non-animal hyaluronic acid gel. Juvederm comes in two formulations: Juvederm Ultra for versatility in contouring wrinkles and folds and Juvederm Ultra Plus for correction of deeper folds and wrinkles.

Includes: Juvederm Ultra .8cc injection
Total Cost:
$670.00
DUE NOW:
$20.00
Juvederm Ultra Plus
Juvederm is a non-animal hyaluronic acid gel. Juvederm comes in two formulations: Juvederm Ultra for versatility in contouring wrinkles and folds and Juvederm Ultra Plus for correction of deeper folds and wrinkles.

Includes: Juvederm Ultra-Plus .8cc injection
Total Cost:
$770.00
DUE NOW:
$20.00
Liposuction
We all have a vision of the perfect body. And more often than not, the body we see in the mirror is not it. Look closely and chances are, with a little tummy tuck here, possibly a lift there, you will see yourself being transformed into the perfect you.

At SK Clinic in La Jolla, outside of San Diego, we perform thousands of procedures including liposuction, tummy tuck, breast reduction, breast lift, and more, which have transformed bodies and lives. From plastic and reconstructive surgery procedures to body contouring, liposuction, and tummy tuck, Dr. Stephen Krant and his team are pleased to give people a renewed sense of self. Many proclaim that their lives have been dramatically changed.

Here is an overview of the cosmetic surgery procedures SK Clinic offers at our La Jolla surgical center, near San Diego, to help you begin your own body transformation…to discover the perfect you. Long hailed as a technique to exclusively remove unwanted fat, liposuction, also known as liposculpture, has evolved into an art form to help people make changes from significant to subtle in their bodies’ appearance.

As performed at our San Diego area clinic in La Jolla, liposuction is an effective way to remove unwanted body fat from most areas where excess fat has accumulated. With very small incisions the fatty tissue is removed and resculpted, leaving a pleasing natural contour.

Genetics play a major role in how certain parts of your body may look. It is common to hear people say they have their mother’s legs, abdomen, thighs, or arms to explain an area of their body they’d rather not draw attention to.

With liposuction, the marks of heredity can be readily reshaped. Commonly targeted areas at our San Diego area clinic with liposuction are the hips, buttocks, abdomen, thighs, back/bra-line, arms, knees, and calves. The female breast can also be sculpted via this technique. Men, too may have excess breast tissue (gynecomastia) that creates a chest contour that is too full. This can make them extremely self-conscious deterring them from being shirtless at the beach, in the locker room, or even at home. The male breast area can be sculpted with tiny incisions, relieving what many men consider a deformity.

Following liposuction, the skin will slowly shrink over a period of months and reshape itself to give ideal contour. But the euphoria of finally ridding yourself of the unwanted fat is immediate.

At our San Diego area clinic in La Jolla, liposuction is not recommended as a weight loss technique, but rather for reshaping body areas you may feel are out of proportion. It is not how much fat is removed, but rediscovering the pleasing, more natural contour that remains.

Includes: Liposuction of specific areas
Excludes: Operating room fee and Anesthesia
Total Cost:
$4,250.00
DUE NOW:
$250.00
Malar (Mid) Face Lift
SK Clinic in La Jolla is one of the nation’s leading proponents of the mid facelift. We have performed hundreds of these with remarkably natural results. The mid facelift is becoming a popular alternative to the traditional facelift.


As performed at SK Clinic in La Jolla, mid facelift involves making the cheekbones more prominent while lessening that ever-deepening crease that runs from the nose to the outer edges of the mouth. The jowl (or nasolabial crease) is tightened and the result is a natural, youthful look that will melt away the years.

The mid facelift, or malar lift, can be performed alone at SK Clinic, located outside San Diego, or in conjunction with a standard facelift. Dr. Krant will advise you as to what procedures, or combination thereof, will best suit your needs.

Includes: The mid face, or malar lift is performed by making an incision only in the lower eyelid. Through this small, inconspicuous approach (exactly where your eyeliner is applied), the entire mid face is lifted and stabilized in a more vertical, slightly oblique direction. As Dr. Krant emphasizes, “If things go north and south, don’t pull them east and west.”
Excludes: Operating room fees and Anesthesia
Total Cost:
$6,400.00
DUE NOW:
$400.00
Microdermabrasion
Microdermabrasion - 1 treatment session only.

Total Cost:
$165.00
DUE NOW:
$5.00
Microdermabrasion series of 6
Microdermabrasion - Pack of 6 treatment sessions to be used within a year.

Total Cost:
$695.00
DUE NOW:
$20.00
Radiesse .3cc
Radiesse is made of advanced calcium-based microsphere technology that stimulates the production of collagen and encourages tissue regeneration.

Includes: Radiesse .3cc injection
Total Cost:
$370.00
DUE NOW:
$20.00
Radiesse 1.3cc
Radiesse is made of advanced calcium-based microsphere technology that stimulates the production of collagen and encourages tissue regeneration.

Includes: Radiesse 1.3cc injection
Total Cost:
$920.00
DUE NOW:
$20.00
Rhinoplasty
The true art of what we do at SK Clinic is evident in the variety of facial contouring procedures we perform. If you aspire to a reshaped nose, cheeks or chin, contouring is an effective technique to achieve the look you want. In the case of nose reshaping, or rhinoplasty, the result can be both cosmetic and medical, as your breathing can be effectively improved.

The result is a nose that is contoured to your desires, whether to remove a bulbous bridge, to minimize nostrils, to trim the width of the nose, or to give the tip more definition. Whatever the desired outcome, a naturally reshaped nose can bring life and vibrancy to any face.

Includes: Through inconspicuous incisions, made inside the nostril we are able to reshape the nasal structure either by sculpting bone or cartilage or by adding cartilage as needed.
Excludes: Operating room fees and Anesthesia
Total Cost:
$4,300.00
DUE NOW:
$300.00
Tummy Tuck-Abdominoplasty
If you desire a flatter, tighter stomach, you may be a candidate for tummy tuck (abdominoplasty) at our San Diego area clinic. As performed at SK Clinic in La Jolla, tummy tuck goes beyond traditional liposuction and is especially effective in patients who not only have fat stores in the abdomen, but loose abdominal muscles from significant weight loss, pregnancy, or C-section. Not only will your abdominal area look fantastic, but it will feel great too.

In many cases at our San Diego area clinic in La Jolla, tummy tuck can eliminate lower back discomfort, which is an exceptional benefit of this procedure. The result is a flat, tight, and flattering abdomen!

Includes: Tummy tuck involves elevating the skin off of the abdominal wall, tightening muscles, excising excess skin, and redraping it to create a smooth, even appearance.
Excludes: Operating room fee and Anesthsia
Total Cost:
$6,400.00
DUE NOW:
$400.00