Larry A. Sargent, MD. FACS is a native of Atlanta, GA, where he excelled in both academics and athletics growing up. He was a recipient of the Bobby Dodd scholarship to the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he studied mathematics and played baseball. Upon graduating from Georgia Tech, he attended medical school at Emory University School of Medicine. He completed general and plastic surgery training at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. While at Johns Hopkins, he studied craniofacial surgery under Dr. Paul Manson and then furthered his education under Dr. Paul Tessier in Paris, France.​

Dr. Sargent served four years in the United States Army at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC. There, he trained military plastic surgeons and was on faculty at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences. For his service and for establishing the first armed services Craniofacial Center, he was awarded the Army Commendation Medal for distinguished service.

Dr. Sargent was recruited to Chattanooga and the University of Tennessee, where he has been Professor and Chairman of the Department of Plastic Surgery at the UT College of Medicine for the past 20 years, as well as the senior partner of The Plastic Surgery Group. He has been Program Director of an outstanding Plastic Surgery Residency for 18 years, and under his leadership, has graduated over 60 board-certified plastic surgeons.