Beverly Hills Plastic Surgeon Jay Calvert, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Dr. Jay Calvert of Rox Center in Beverly Hills tops THElist 2013 for Best Rhinoplasty Surgeon in Los Angeles.
Dr. Calvert is a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon, certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery, the gold standard for surgeons. We chose Dr. Calvert as our Top Pick because of his extensive experience and the dedication he applies to his medical career. Dr. Calvert is recognized worldwide for his advanced skills and aesthetic. He travels to world-class symposiums and medical conferences to speak on and perform the most effective cutting-edge surgical techniques, with other leading plastic surgeons from around the world. As great as his reputation is both worldwide and locally, his dedication to helping each and every person achieve their goal of a great-looking, fully-functional nose, is why he has attained a great referral base, and is highly respected by both his peers and patients alike.
Dr. Calvert specialized in revision rhinoplasty, repairing nose jobs that were not properly performed by others surgeons the first time. He preforms all types of plastic surgery and specializes in aesthetic surgery. He has a special interest in face-lifts, rhinoplasty (nose reshaping), and breast augmentation. Dr. Calvert has developed advanced expertise in not only rhinoplasty, but facial aesthetics, and minimally invasive endoscopic brow and face-lifts as well.
We wanted to find out more about Dr. Calvert and asked his advice as to how someone can find the right plastic surgeon for them ~
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL1aA-cqoQ4[/youtube]Can you tell us about your background?
I first went to undergraduate at Vanderbilt University, in Nashville Tennessee. There I studied molecular biology and I did a lot of DNA sequencing and protein isolation as part of my undergraduate. I then went onto Cornell Medical School in New York City, where I really got interested in plastic surgery. And I was fortunate to be accepted into the University of Pittsburgh combined Plastic Surgery and General Surgery Program where I trained for 7 years total, which included 2 years of research.
I actually obtained a faculty position at Carnegie Mellon University in the robotics institute while I was there, so my training was extensive. It gave way to my first faculty job as a, at the University of California Irvine, where I was an Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery. After that I decided that I wanted to have my own place and that’s when I was able to come to the Roxbury Clinic and Surgery Center, which is now become The Rox Center, and I’ve been here ever since 2005.
What should a patient look for when seeking the best plastic surgeon for their operation?
Being a plastic surgeon you’re going to look for very specific credentials. First of all you want to see that the doctor trained in plastic surgery. It’s amazing how many people are practicing plastic surgery who never had any specialized training in plastic surgery. Just one statistic I heard and it means that the chances are, if you are going for plastic surgery you got to really look closely. There are 30,000 doctors practicing plastic surgery in the United States but there are only around 7,000 Board-Certified Plastic Surgeons.
So it’s not that those doctors can’t practice plastic surgery, they certainly can; but they didn’t do the training of the American Board of Plastic Surgery. Again, it’s not a question of whether or not they can do it, they certainly can – but I think that you’re going to stack the cards in your favor by finding somebody who is board-certified in plastic surgery.
It’s interesting because plastic surgery is a field where the results are always a compromise. If you think about it, you’re trading incisions and cuts and surgical time in the operating room to try to enhance or make better something that you need repaired or that you want to look better. And there are complications with surgery- that’s reality. And anybody who does enough surgery has complications and has to take care of them, and that’s really where the rubber meets the road in who you choose for your surgery. If things go right, then your surgeon’s a genius, it’s when they don’t go right, which happens in a percentage of time for every different type of operation…that’s where you see what kind of a doctor you really have and that’s where the training and credentials and the ability to take care of problems makes the difference in what your outcome’s ultimately going to be.
Dr. Calvert sees new patients on Wednesdays at the Rox Centers in Beverly Hills and Fridays in Newport Beach. www.Roxcenter.com
To make a consultation appointment with Dr. Calvert, call 310.777.8800 in Beverly Hills and for Newport Beach call 949.644.2858
