Christopher Cote

Dr. Christopher Cote, MD, is a dual board-certified facial plastic and reconstructive surgeon at FacesFirst Cosmetic Surgery, part of AOO | ENT Specialists of the Rockies, with offices in Denver and Lone Tree, Colorado. With over 20 years of experience, he specializes exclusively in procedures of the face, head, and neck. Dr. Cote received his undergraduate education at the College of the Holy Cross and Oxford University and was a Harvard University Research Fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital. He earned his Doctor of Medicine from Tufts University and completed his surgical internship and residency at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the National Naval Medical Center in Washington, D.C. He completed his facial plastic and reconstructive surgery fellowship at Johns Hopkins University Hospital. Dr. Cote is certified by the American Board of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and the American Board of Otolaryngology. He had a distinguished 12-year career in the United States Army, serving as Chief of Facial Plastic Surgery and Chief of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at Walter Reed Medical Center, otolaryngology consultant to the White House Medical Unit, and Chief of Otolaryngology for U.S. Forces in Korea. He gained extensive facial reconstruction experience treating war-wounded soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan operations and served as faculty in the otolaryngology residency program at Walter Reed. He currently serves as a Clinical Instructor at the University of Colorado Plastic Surgery Residency. He was named one of America's Best Plastic Surgeons for rhinoplasty by Newsweek in 2023 and 2024, and has received the Castle Connolly Top Doctor Award via 5280 Magazine. He specializes in facelifts, neck lifts, brow lifts, rhinoplasty, blepharoplasty, facial reconstruction, laser therapy, treatment of facial paralysis, and non-surgical rejuvenation.