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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/
TRAINING & CERTIFICATION FOR PLASTIC SURGEONS
MBADC: On that note, with the increased popularity of procedures, would
you say it’s more easy or more difficult to get [board] certified as a plastic
surgeon these days?
BA: Just like hand surgery that we just talked about, there are several
ways to becoming certified as plastic surgeons, and certified surgeons…One is to do
general surgery for five years and then do another two years where you do general plastic
surgery. And then another avenue is to do head and neck surgery--and head and neck surgery
would just deal basically with function and form and cosmetics of the face, head, neck and
so-forth--then do a specialized training in facial plastic surgery where you would only be
a plastic surgeon on the face, eyes, nose, etc. . So it is very challenging to become a
plastic surgeon with either of these routes. Because it’s very difficult to get into
the residency program, it’s very competitive, and there are only less than a hundred
quality spots in the country on a yearly basis with either of these fields. So, it’s
very, very challenging. In the ‘50’s and ‘60’s, plastic surgery and
cosmetic surgery were not thought of very highly, because many people thought of it as
superficial etcetera. But in the last 30 to 40 years it’s made a huge difference.
There’s—for example, like myself, I don’t just do cosmetic surgery, I mean,
60 percent of my procedures are cosmetic surgery, but 40 percent are doing like,
reconstructive surgery for head and neck cancer defects, facial paralysis patients, doing
operations to improve their facial function and aesthetics. So there are many, many
different ways to help the individual with plastic surgery, and getting certified has been
very difficult and competitive.
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