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Body
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Facial Plastic Surgery and Its Effects on the
Voice with Babak Azizzadeh, MD
Dr. Azizzadeh is a Board Certified, Harvard trained Facial Plastic Surgeon,
specializing exclusively in facial plastic surgery. As a clinical faculty of the UCLA
School of Medicine, Dr. Azizzadeh is actively involved in teaching facial plastic surgery
to residents and medical students. In addition to his busy surgical practice, Dr.
Azizzadeh has also been actively involved in several humanitarian causes such as the
Medical Missions for Children (MMFC) and the R.O.S.E. Fund (Regaining One’s
Self-esteem), a national non-profit organization committed to ending violence against
women and children by assisting survivors in regaining their self-esteem. He has operated
on many famous faces. Dr. Azizzadeh's website is http://www.facialplastics.info/
COSMETIC SURGERY & THE ARTIST’S LIVELIHOOD
BA: The really important thing to consider is for the performing artist,
whether they’re a singer, whether they’re in entertainment, actor-model, etc.,
is that their profession has to be a consideration when a plastic surgeon or what we coin
the voice plastic surgeon deals with them. Because you have to tailor the operation to the
patient and not tailor the patient to the operation you know how to do. So you have to
really be sensitive…You have to really consider function--When you’re doing
rhinoplasty think about their breathing and voice changes, when you’re doing
facelifts think about their voice changes, and really think about the function as well as
aesthetics…Because this is their livelihood, this is what they are coming in to see
you for, and you cannot do something that will hurt their profession. You know, basically
a guitar player, having hand surgery. It’s the exact same thing. A guitar player will
not just go to anyone to have hand surgery. They will research it, and they will really
really need to make sure the person who’s doing it knows everything about them. Or a
surgeon wanting hand surgery. This is our livelihood. And for the performing artist, their
face, their singing ability, their function is their livelihood. That’s why
we’re really trying to create a center for performing arts medicine, so that we
address and really satisfy and take care of the special needs of all performing artists.
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