Plastic Surgeon recommendations in NYC?

a co-worker of mine thinks she broke her nose over the weekend. She literally fell on her face.. don't ask.. but it looks BAD. Her nose and under her eyes are all swollen, looks like she has a slight curvature, and there's a huge gash on the top her her bridge.

Anyway, she wants to go to a plastic surgeon, but doesn't know any in the city... (she's originally from Chicago).

Anyone have any recommendations?

Thanks!

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sorry I have one in Great Neck..awesome by the way.

I hope your friend feels better soon..that sounds awful!

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Sorry I thought my Dr. had an office in NYC but he is in Great Neck only hope she feels better

Message edited 2/20/2007 10:34:21 AM.

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Craig A. Foster
Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital
850 Park Avenue, at 77th Street (212-744-5746)
Best known for saving the face of the Central Park jogger, Craig Foster is double board-certified in plastic surgery and otolaryngology (ear, nose, and throat surgery) and holds a degree in dentistry. He specializes in facial work and is now doing the Endotine brow-lift, which uses biodegradable material instead of the traditional screws or staples. He is also known for fixing botched nose work (he corrected a patient who had had five prior operations), and his injectables of choice are collagen and Radiance.

Norman V. Godfrey
New York—Presbyterian Hospital; St. Vincent’s Hospital; The New York Hospital of Queens
9 East 93rd Street (212-628-6600); 163-03 Horace Harding Expressway, Fresh Meadows (718-961-6200)
In practice with his younger brother in Manhattan and Queens, Norman Godfrey specializes in nose jobs, both “closed,” in which work is done from internal incisions, and “open,” in which the nose cartilage is flipped open like the hood of a car. He also does face work, from lifts to laser resurfacing to transconjunctival eyelid-lifts, in which the incisions are made inconspicuously on the inside of the lid. Occasionally, he’ll operate alongside his brother, a tummy-tuck expert, on the same patient.


Richard A. Skolnik
Mount Sinai Hospital
21 East 87th Street (212-722-1977)
Soap-opera stars and Broadway regulars come to Richard Skolnik for his 21 years of experience in the aesthetic-surgery business. Having done his training at Mount Sinai, he’s now the hospital’s chief of resident training in aesthetic surgery, which means that whenever he’s in the operating room, he’s teaching. Most of his practice is facial (eyelids, noses, full face-lifts), with some breast surgery, liposuction, and Botox treatments. He’s currently doing research using LEDs (light-emitting diodes) to combat wrinkles and pigmentation and as a general antiaging treatment that boosts the effects of topicals.

Nicolas Tabbal
Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital
521 Park Avenue, at 60th Street (212-644-5800)
Rhinoplasty, the cornerstone of Nicolas Tabbal’s practice, is considered one of the most difficult cosmetic procedures to do well. It concerns skin, cartilage, and bone—three kinds of tissue. Also, the right (or wrong) nose job can totally change a person’s look. Not only is Tabbal regarded as one of the best in the city at sculpting beautiful noses, but he is the doctor to turn to if you’ve had a bad result at less-skilled hands.

Minas Constantinides
NYU Medical Center
530 First Avenue, near 30th Street, Suite 7U (212-263-5882)
Now in his tenth year of practice, Minas Constantinides is the director of facial plastic and reconstructive surgery in the Department of Otolaryngology at NYU. He spends three quarters of his time on nose jobs and the rest on face-lifts or delivering the newest injectables (Radiance is one). Deep-plane face-lifting, which involves cutting into the deepest layers of the face to improve nasal labial folds and other problem areas, is a specialty, as are endoscopic mid-face-lifts, which improve the upper cheek and eye area with minimal incisions in the hairline.

Robert Guida
New York—Presbyterian Hospital; Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital
8 East 75th Street (212-871-0900)
Robert Guida’s rhinoplasties and revision rhinoplasties draw the cognoscenti because he’s an ENT guy—you can expect to breathe well, too. His lower-eyelid surgery involves an incision on the inside to eliminate external scars and the possibility of the drooping effect known as the “hound-dog look,” and he tightens the skin with a laser. For facial rejuvenation, he uses both the old-fashioned CO2 laser and the trendy Cool Touch II nonablative laser. Guida also does reconstructive work on faces that have been ravaged by disease or accident.

Steven J. Pearlman
St. Luke’s—Roosevelt Medical Center; Lenox Hill Hospital
512 Park Avenue, at 60th Street (212-223-8300)
Rhinoplasties and redoing other surgeons’ rhinoplasties are the mainstays of Steven Pearlman’s purely facial practice. He favors the deep-plane face-lift even though it has the longest recovery time—three weeks, a week longer than other face-lifts—because he thinks the results are the most enduring. He also performs a full array of nonsurgical procedures, including applying intense pulsed light to reduce brown and red spots and radio-frequency treatments for skin tightening. Pearlman also does pro bono work on victims of domestic violence.

Geoffrey Tobias
Mount Sinai Hospital
815 Park Avenue, at 75th Street (212-245-0202)
Geoffrey Tobias’s practice is exclusively rhinoplasties. He uses microscopic sutures to resculpt and refine the nose instead of removing tissue, because he feels this preserves the nose’s long-term shape and function. He also specializes in improving noses that were done in the sixties and seventies, when a lot of tissue was routinely removed. He is currently doing research in the frontier of tissue engineering, in which cells can be grown to rebuild and restructure faces and noses. Tobias keeps interesting research company: The lab in which he works was the one that produced a mouse with a human ear on its back, in October 1995.

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Another recommendation for your friend. I will be using Dr. Monasebian of Park Avenue Plastic Surgery (but not for my nose) in April. He specializes in facial plastic surgery.