"She has a golden heart and her golden face is hers again," Richards' plastic surgeon, Dr. Ben Talei, wrote alongside the side-by-side photos

Denise Richards gave her confidence a lift ... by doing the same to her face!

"I wanted to put things back up, where they were before," Richards told the outlet of her facelift, sharing that while she had undergone plastic surgery before, the prospect of having surgery on her f...