Beverly Hills cosmetic doctor’s facial plastic surgery no-nos: three procedures Harvard-trained specialist won’t perform
- Harvard-trained cosmetic surgeon Dr Babak Azizzadeh refuses to do some facial plastic procedures and turns away people with body dysmorphic disorder
- Lip and jaw implants are no-nos because they have a high risk of infection, and so is facial liposuction – it risks nerve damage, infection, scars and deformity
Cosmetic surgeons have voiced concerns about a boom in facial plastic surgery over the past two years, saying people have developed “Zoom dysmorphia” and unrealistic beauty ideals driven by social media.
It’s led some surgeons, including Beverly Hills-based Dr Babak Azizzadeh, to turn away potential patients who request certain face procedures, or who exhibit signs of body dysmorphic disorder.
Specifically, he rejects requests for lip implantation, jaw implantation, and facial liposuction. Azizzadeh, who trained at Harvard and now specialises in face reconstruction, says he always goes for the most natural-looking result with the tools he has.
That could mean using a mixture of Botox, filler, and surgical procedures, and refusing certain requests, such as for face implants.
Lip implants and implants along the jawline have a higher risk of infection, Azizzadeh says, so he prefers to use fillers in these areas. He says lip filler looks more natural than a lip implant, so he always chooses that over surgery.
Azizzadeh also says he won’t perform facial liposuction, a procedure that involves sucking fat out of the face to remove chin fat or drooping skin. The procedure can lead to nerve damage, infections, scarring and face deformities, which Azizzadeh says he saw in a recent patient who had come from another surgeon.