Tsitsino Shurgaya ( ka, ციცინო შურღაია) is a Georgian surgeon, born in

Georgia Georgia most commonly refers to: * Georgia (country), a country in the South Caucasus * Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the southeastern United States Georgia may also refer to: People and fictional characters * Georgia (name), a list of pe ...

who specializes in

microsurgery Microsurgery is a general term for surgery requiring an operating microscope. The most obvious developments have been procedures developed to allow anastomosis of successively smaller blood vessels and nerves (typically 1 mm in diameter) whi ...

of the face and neck. She is a facial nerve expert who treats

facial paralysis Facial nerve paralysis is a common problem that involves the paralysis of any structures innervated by the facial nerve. The pathway of the facial nerve is long and relatively convoluted, so there are a number of causes that may result in facial ...

and focuses her scientific research in all methods to rejuvenate the face and neck. She is one of the pioneers of facial rejuvenation in Russia and has devoted her life to studying the human face and all surgical and non-surgical methods to keep it looking younger and fight the onset of aging. Shurgaya graduated from

Tbilisi State Medical University Tbilisi State Medical University (TSMU) ( ka, თბილისის სახელმწიფო სამედიცინო უნივერსიტეტი (თსსუ), tr) is a leading medical university in Tbilisi, Georgia. M ...

in 1981. Since 1985 she was in residency later followed by postgraduate and doctoral studies at the Central Institute of Advancement of Medics (presently known as the Russian Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education – RMAP

. In 1992 she defended her thesis on “Neyromioplastic operations in paralysis and

paresis In medicine, paresis (), compound word from Greek , (πᾰρᾰ- “beside” + ἵημι “let go, release”), is a condition typified by a weakness of voluntary movement, or by partial loss of voluntary movement or by impaired movement. Whe ...

of mimic muscles”. In 1995 she defended her doctoral dissertation on the topic: “A surgical algorithm for treatment of patients with

”. Shurgaya is a

Maxillofacial Oral and maxillofacial surgery (OMFS) is a surgical specialty focusing on reconstructive surgery of the face, facial trauma surgery, the mouth, head and neck, and jaws, as well as facial plastic surgery including cleft lip and cleft palate s ...

and Plastic surgery expert. She has more than 100 publications and scientific papers, 10 personal methodologies of operation on the face and is a co-author of two guides on plastic surgery. She holds three patents on the "Method of treatment of unilateral facial paralysis"

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About Professor Shurgaya

Gracia prize
- First Russian award in the area of beauty and health "Gracia" awarded to Shurgaya in the category - Best Facial Plastic Surgeon of Russia in 2008(Российская премия «Грация» в номинации Лучший пластический хирург по пластике лица представлена Цицино Михайловне Шургая в 2008)
CNIIS, Russian - ЦНИИС

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