Cities · Los Angeles, California
Top Plastic Surgeons in Los Angeles
An editorial guide to the city's plastic surgery scene beyond the Beverly Hills triangle.
Los Angeles aesthetics has always been bigger than Beverly Hills, though Beverly Hills tends to dominate the conversation. Outside the half-mile triangle of Camden, Bedford, and Rodeo there is a parallel industry serving the rest of the city: the West Side actor between roles, the Westwood physician's spouse, the Pasadena attorney, the Santa Monica investor. The work is the same. The waiting list is shorter.
What follows is a short, considered look at practitioners we think are doing the most distinct work in greater Los Angeles right now. Selection criteria are simple: a recognizable point of view, results that hold up over time, and a patient base built on referrals rather than billboards.
The list
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Dr. Sheila Nazarian
Nazarian Plastic Surgery · Beverly Hills
Dr. Sheila Nazarian is board-certified in plastic surgery and runs one of the rare aesthetics practices to extend successfully beyond the operating room. The Spa26 line and her Emmy-nominated documentary work give her a public profile most plastic surgeons cannot replicate, but the underlying practice is what matters: precise body contouring, breast surgery, and a high volume of post-pregnancy work for patients who want their pre-pregnancy proportions back.
What distinguishes her results is restraint. Her before-and-after work, which she publishes prolifically, is built around proportion rather than size. Patients tend to look like sharper versions of themselves rather than versions of someone else, which in this city is the quiet-luxury position.
Facial Plastic Surgery
Dr. Andrew Frankel
Lasky Clinic · Beverly Hills
Dr. Andrew Frankel is double-board-certified in facial plastic surgery and otolaryngology, and one of the few surgeons in Los Angeles who works exclusively on the face and neck. The Lasky Clinic, where he practices, is among the oldest established surgical centers in Beverly Hills, with a patient roster that stretches across generations.
Frankel's specialty is the deep-plane facelift, a technique that repositions the entire midface structure rather than tightening skin. The result is a face that ages in a way the patient still recognizes ten years later. He publishes academic work, lectures internationally, and is one of the few practitioners in the city whose technique other surgeons reference.
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Dr. Steven Teitelbaum
Teitelbaum Plastic Surgery · Santa Monica
Dr. Steven Teitelbaum is a UCLA clinical assistant professor of plastic surgery and one of the most published voices in breast aesthetic surgery on the West Coast. His Santa Monica practice serves a clientele that skews toward physicians, attorneys, and finance professionals: patients who tend to research surgeons by reading their journal publications rather than their Instagram.
Teitelbaum's signature is conservatism in implant size and an unusually transparent communication style about what is surgically possible and what is not. He has authored chapters in the leading textbooks on breast aesthetic surgery and is well known in the field for his work on breast implant illness consultation and explantation, which has made him a destination for patients seeking a second opinion.
Also worth knowing
- Dr. Brent Moelleken. Beverly Hills plastic surgeon with a focus on body contouring and ultrasonic-assisted liposuction.
- Dr. Jay Calvert. The Roxbury Institute, Beverly Hills. Rhinoplasty specialist with extensive revision practice.
- Dr. Ben Talei. Beverly Hills Center for Plastic and Facial Plastic Surgery. Deep-plane facelift and facial feminization.