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Dr. Burke Chegar, MD

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Chegar Facial Plastic Surgery

Carmel, IN

Cosmetic Surgery

  • Double board-certified surgeon
  • Virtual consults
  • Financing available
37 results7 procedures

Dr. Burke Chegar is a facial plastic surgeon and the owner of Chegar Facial Plastic Surgery in Carmel, Indiana. He is certified by the American Board of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and the American Board of Otolaryngology. His practice covers cosmetic and reconstructive surgery of the head, neck and face, including facelift, brow lift, neck lift, eyelid surgery, skin resurfacing and facial injections, along with reconstruction after trauma and skin cancer treatment.

A Carmel native, he graduated from Wabash College and earned his medical degree at Indiana University in 2000. He completed a general surgery internship and an otolaryngology–head and neck surgery residency in New York, then a facial plastic surgery fellowship at Emory University School of Medicine. The American Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery gave him the John Orlando Roe Award for clinical research during his facial plastic surgery fellowship.

Dr. Chegar has given more than a dozen presentations at local and national surgical meetings and has published in professional journals. He is a member of the American Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery, the American Academy of Otolaryngology, the American Rhinologic Society, the American Medical Association and the Indiana State Medical Association.

Credentials & affiliations

  • American Board of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
  • American Board of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
  • Fellowship in facial plastic surgery, Emory University School of Medicine
  • Fellow, American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
  • Member, American Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery
  • Member, American Rhinologic Society

Publications & press

The team

  • RN · Aesthetic Nurse Injector · 20+ years

    Terri Knoll, RN, is the nursing director at Chegar Facial Plastic Surgery and heads its aesthetic injection team. She graduated from the Indiana University School of Nursing in 1996 and began her nursing career in pediatrics at Riley Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital. She has been an aesthetic injector for 20 years.

  • RN, BSN · Aesthetic Nurse Injector

    Chasity Wolf, RN, is an injector nurse at Chegar Facial Plastic Surgery. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing at Ball State University in 2004 and has worked in pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, and facial plastics.

  • MPAS, PA-C · Physician Assistant

    Board certified

    Franci Gesell, MPAS, PA-C, is a board-certified physician assistant at Chegar Facial Plastic Surgery. She graduated from Butler University in 2011 and spent more than a decade in emergency medicine in Indianapolis before joining the practice in 2023.