Many fields of medicine allow physicians to do cosmetic surgery. Plastic surgeons, however, follow a unique and rigorous path of study representing from five to eight years
of post graduate training in surgery, plastic surgery and fellowships for further in-depth knowledge. Traditionally, plastic surgery has taken on some of the most difficult problems in medicine, from burn treatment, cleft lip and palate, tissue rafting and microsurgery, to name a few. It is upon these reconstructive techniques that our unique talents in aesthetic surgery have been built.

 

It sometimes happens that patients refer to us as artists.  
We are not artists, but rather more like architects. Unlike the artist who holds full reign over his canvas or stone, the plastic surgeon is more a craftsman, a body architect, if you will, bound by the laws of nature and the principles of the ethics of medicine. We try to achieve for each of our patients a sense of well-being and nourishment of his or her own self-image.

 

Critically, it is important that, above all, the plastic surgeon is
a good physician—paying attention to he whole patient and his or her physical and psychological needs.