Plastic surgery is like prostitution: officially does not exist

Create an ideal appearance, regain shape after childbirth, slow down time - to enjoy your reflection in the mirror... Both girls and ladies of Balzac's age dream about this. And what’s more, they know it’s possible. Plastic surgery has firmly entered our lives. No one can be surprised by breast augmentation, facelift, liposuction or eyelid surgery. Another question: who to trust with the most valuable things - your beauty and health?

We have compiled a rating of the best plastic surgeons in Ukraine, whom nature has endowed with golden hands.

Edgar Kaminsky

Instagram: edgar_kaminskyi
Website: dr - edgar . com

Edgar Kaminsky is the most popular and famous Kiev plastic surgeon. Without exaggeration, we can say that he brought plastic arts to a new level, equating it with art.

For a long time, Kaminsky was known as the husband of Slava (red-haired) from the group “NeAngels”. In 2021, he managed to attract the attention of the audience to his person by performing breast augmentation surgery live on Periscope. Kaminsky not only showed a naked girl on the operating table, but also took a selfie in front of her and posted the picture on his Instagram account. After the broadcast, people from their world began to subscribe to the young and brave plastic surgeon.

Today Edgar Kaminsky has 267 thousand subscribers on his Instagram account. In his personal profile, he shares lifestyle photos and also talks about the level of modern medicine in Ukraine. The page looks stylish and bright, but there are no before-after results. The plastic surgeon has a page dedicated to working moments : dr_edgar . It contains a lot of useful information about the features of plastic surgery and, of course, presents the results of operations.

Edgar Kaminsky continues to operate at the Harmony clinic in Kyiv. Despite the fact that he opened his own clinic, Kaminskyi.clinic. In it, the doctor conducts consultations and examinations, and his team performs cosmetic procedures and ultrasound. Kaminsky specializes in nose surgery (rhinoplasty), mammoplasty (usually breast augmentation) and eyelid surgery. Wealthy Ukrainian stars and bloggers resort to his services. A few months ago, Sasha Pustovit, a blogger from Ivano-Frankivsk, had rhinoplasty done by Kaminsky.

Svetlana Rabotenko

Instagram: svetlanarabotenko
Website rabotenko.com

Silver in the ranking of plastic surgeons in Ukraine goes to a plastic surgeon, a charming girl and part-time mother of three children, Svetlana Rabotenko. Since 2021, the doctor has been a member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). Only two plastic surgeons have this title in Ukraine.

Svetlana Rabotenko occupies a unique niche - postpartum recovery. The main audience of patients are young mothers who dream of regaining their lost shape after childbirth and lactation. Specialization: breast plastic surgery (mammoplasty), tummy tuck (abdominoplasty), as well as combined operations. By the way, a few months ago, Rabotenko restored the shape of Victoria Kiktenko, a mother of two children and a popular Ukrainian blogger from Dnepr. With Victoria's consent, the breast augmentation surgery was broadcast live on Instagram.

Rabotenko also performs rhinoplasty (nose job) and plastic surgeries aimed at rejuvenation (eyelid surgery, facial lipofilling, SMAS facelift).

Svetlana Rabotenko has 38 thousand subscribers on her Instagram account. On her page, personal and family photos coexist harmoniously with the results of photo and video operations.

Rostislav Valikhnovsky

Instagram: rostyslav_valikhnovski
Website valikhnovskimd . com

Rostislav Valikhnovsky is one of the top plastic surgeons in Ukraine, who is known from the TV shows “Turn My Beauty”, “Snidanok”, “Concerns Everyone”.

He is mostly involved in reconstructive plastic surgery, and also takes on the most complex cases - burns, obesity, congenital and acquired injuries.

Valikhnovsky was born into a family of doctors and decided to follow in the footsteps of his parents. In 1998, he opened his own clinic, “Dr. Valikhnovski Clinic,” which turned into the medical holding company “Valikhnovski MD.” For five years, from 2005 to 2010, Valikhnovsky was the personal physician of the President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko.

The plastic surgeon has 175 thousand followers on his Instagram account. The doctor shows realistic footage of operations and before-after results. In 2021, Rostislav Valikhnovsky became a priest. Today he combines his activities as a doctor and ministry in the church.

Rating of the best plastic surgeons in Kyiv

It was very difficult to create a ranking, determine who the best surgeon is and assign places to doctors, since each of them is outstanding in their field. Each doctor on the list has a wide range of qualities. Three doctors who deserve to lead the ranking and take first place: Valikhnovsky, Pinchuk and Kharkov.

What criteria were used to compile the TOP 15 plastic and reconstructive surgeons?

The rating of surgeons was compiled based on the combination of all the above qualities.

The title “The Best Plastic Surgeon in Kyiv” was awarded to the Honored Doctor of Ukraine Rostislav Lyubomirovich Valikhnovsky.

Dr. Valikhnovsky has high professional achievements. His talent truly serves our country faithfully, from treating the President to charitable operations for ATO fighters and people in difficult life situations. He is a highly moral person, a clergyman, and spends a lot of time and energy on charitable causes and teaching students. He is the most popular media personality and a participant in many television programs. Dr. Valikhnovsky’s services to Ukraine among doctors, in our opinion, are the most outstanding.

Further, in second place is the most experienced and authoritative of all plastic Surgeons in Ukraine - Dr. Pinchuk. Undoubtedly, he is distinguished by other services to the country, because he taught many plastic surgeons. In terms of experience, achievements in science and level of knowledge, it takes an honorable second place.

Third place was awarded to Dr. Kharkov, although he also deserves the highest place due to his talent and education. Kharkov really has a lot of experience working in different countries and uses the best techniques available in plastic surgery. His achievements in front of Ukraine are also significant.

Gennady Patlazhan

Instagram: drpatlazhan
Website patlazhan.com

Gennady Patlazhan is a plastic surgeon from Odessa. Performs operations in his own clinic, Patlazhan Clinic. By the way, the head doctor at the Patlazhan clinic is Tatyana Patlazhan, the wife of a plastic surgeon. Here is such a family tandem of professionals.

Gennady Patlazhan’s Instagram account has 14.8 thousand subscribers. Most posts are about before-after results and moments from the operating room. The surgeon performs a wide range of plastic surgeries, but the results are dominated by breast surgery.

Evgeniy Donets

Instagram: doctor_donets
Website drdonets.com.ua

Evgeniy Donets is a plastic surgeon from Kyiv. He operates at the MedicalClab clinic. His specialization is breast endoprosthetics, lifting, and reduction mammoplasty. And indeed, in the plastic surgeon’s account, most photos of the results of breast surgery. By the way, Donets practically does not show the operating and rehabilitation processes. On the page, where there are 55.8 thousand subscribers, there are photos of Evgeniy Donets himself, as well as patients from everyday life.

Plastic surgery is like prostitution: officially does not exist

How does a Ukrainian plastic surgeon differ from, for example, a European one? Not at all by the cost of services, but by the fact that Ukrainian officially does not exist. We are talking about the de jure absence of plastic surgery as a profession in our country, as well as the consequences of this circumstance, which de facto resulted in the emergence and functioning of a huge shadow market.

For a long time, the overwhelming majority of plastic surgeries have been performed under the guise of other surgical procedures in agreement with state medical institutions - for generous “commissions” to their chief doctors. This allows us to set lower prices for operations and, accordingly, count on a larger number of patients, whose “plastic” budgets have decreased significantly in the last two years.

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The market is valued at several billion dollars, but is in the shadows

In Ukraine, the shadow market significantly prevails over the civilized one. This problem is typical for both the cosmetic services segment and the entire domestic beauty industry. However, in the plastics segment this phenomenon has acquired alarming proportions. Thus, if the turnover of plastic surgery in Ukraine reaches several billion dollars a year, then the volume of tax revenues from them to the budget is practically zero. Plastic surgeons will be able to correct this by starting to contribute to the state treasury no sooner than the market is brought into the legal realm.

State regulation in the industry should be carried out with an eye to its legitimization

The shadow nature of the market in itself does not pose a danger. The consequences of shadowing can be disastrous. In particular, the lack of government regulation. Moreover, government intervention in this case does not imply prohibitions and restrictions, but a whole series of measures aimed at civilizing the plastic surgery market - introducing professional liability insurance for doctors, creating and maintaining optimal working conditions for all market participants, ensuring healthy competition, etc. Nothing This is not happening on the market at the moment. There are no reliable statistics either, because it is completely unprofitable for operators to publish real data on the number of operations they performed.

A “side effect” of the legitimization of plastic surgery will be free operations

Unfortunately, the state in Ukraine is not yet able to control plastic surgeons and the quality of their work. When this happens, it is more efficient to simply resolve a particular system. Like, for example, prostitution. However, the legitimization of plastic surgery seems simple only at first glance. In reality, the process requires time, effort and money. At a minimum, to open plastic surgery departments at existing hospitals, the services in which should be free. In this case, the experience of Russian plastic surgeons can be a good example. Until recently, the local plastic surgery market was completely in the shadows. However, after the specialty was legalized, several specialized centers began operating in Moscow alone, meeting the population’s needs for free plastic surgery.

The Ministry of Health does not have enough money or knowledge to license a specialty

State expenses are inevitable when organizing the training of plastic surgeons. Firstly, the Ministry of Health needs to introduce the corresponding discipline into the list of existing specialties, and secondly, it should be taught to all interested doctors free of charge. I believe that officials are not ready for this. On the one hand, they do not have experience, knowledge and understanding of what exactly needs to be done. On the other hand, there is no money for this. At the same time, if we proceed from the above-mentioned shadow turnover, plastic surgery can no longer only generate profit, but also be a powerful engine for the development of the medical services market and the economy as a whole.

Even in times of crisis, Ukrainians do not stop doing plastic surgery. They believe that investing in appearance is now not only justified, but also necessary. Let's take our clinic for example. In addition to plastic surgery, we also work in a number of other segments - general surgery, gynecology, urology, etc. But plastic surgery is now one of the most profitable areas for us. Accordingly, it is more profitable for the state if we and other clinics start bringing money into the budget.

You can become a plastic surgeon in Ukraine in less than two hundred hours

Not only the budget, but also market participants - large private clinics suffering from unfair dumping and in dire need of clear rules of the game - will benefit from the course towards state regulation in such a difficult time for Ukraine. Let's take just one aspect - the training time for plastic surgeons in Ukraine. Short - less than two hundred hours, residency in our country is enough to train a newly minted plastic surgeon. This circumstance causes considerable surprise among foreign “plastics” and even seems strange to the average Ukrainian. Who controls the quality of training of these doctors if the specialty itself does not officially exist?

Level of training of future plastic surgeons

Residency teachers are not always interested in ensuring a high level of training for future plastic surgeons. As a rule, they are all practicing plastic surgeons. By transferring their knowledge, they create professional competitors for themselves. By taking exams, they can “through their fingers” assess the level of knowledge of students, since what is more important for them is not checking the readiness of future doctors, but the maximum number of passers among their wards. That is why assessment of the level of plastic training should be carried out independently of training.

Legalization of the specialty will close the market for small players

The official emergence of the profession of “plastic surgeon” may not be beneficial for all market players, especially small ones. The most vulnerable plastic surgeons are “illegal immigrants.” They work separately, and operations are carried out in free premises at their main place of work in public hospitals and clinics. Often - under the false cover of manipulations that correspond to the profile of the medical institution in which they are carried out. In this case, the official, purely symbolic payment for the operation goes to the cash desk of the medical institution, and the unofficial actual payment goes to the doctor personally. The legalization of plastic surgery makes this scheme unprofitable.

Read about effective tools for regulating the plastic surgery market in the following blog.

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Dmitry Slosser

Instagram: dr_slosser
Website oberig.ua

Another Kiev plastic surgeon is Dmitry Slosser. He became widely known through his participation in television shows - “Turn My Beauty” on 1+1, “I Shame My Body” on STB, including on a number of leading TV channels in Russia.

The specialist received his education in plastic surgery in Jerusalem, and then worked in Israeli clinics. Today Slosser operates in Kyiv at the Oberig clinic. His specialization is mainly rhinoplasty (nose surgery) and mammoplasty.

Slosser has 52.4 thousand followers on Instagram. He actively maintains the page, posting photos of the results of operations.

Choosing a plastic surgeon is a responsible step. Trust your health and beauty only to professionals. The rating of plastic surgeons in Ukraine and Kyiv was compiled on the basis of open data.

Ukrainian Alexey Ivanovich

Ukrainian Alexey Ivanovich - plastic surgeon, assistant at the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery of the North-Western State Medical University named after I.I. Mechnikova, full member of the Russian Society of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons, full member of the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons.

Education and career:

• Graduated from the Military Medical Academy named after. CM. Kirov in St. Petersburg.
• 1996 specialization in vascular surgery and microsurgery.
• 1998 specialization in maxillofacial surgery.
• 2003 Certification at the Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education in Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery
• Currently working at the GrandMed clinic.

Received certificates in the skin rejuvenation method - Molding-Mask, biodimensional systems for augmentation mammoplasty and ultrasonic liposuction techniques for body contouring disorders and the treatment of obesity.

Author of more than 70 scientific papers in the field of microsurgery, hand surgery, traumatology, reconstructive, plastic and aesthetic surgery. Gives lectures on rhinoplasty and functional septoplasty, new technologies for abdominoplasty.

The doctor performs the following types of plastic surgery:

• Primary and repeated rhinoplasty:
• functional rhinoplasty (septoplasty, elimination of septal perforations, complex correction of the causes of nasal breathing dysfunction, treatment of snoring, etc.);
• plastic surgery of the mammary glands: breast augmentation (endoprosthetics), lipofilling of the mammary glands, reduction (reduction) of the mammary glands, lifting of the mammary glands (all options, including internal suspension), correction of asymmetries, treatment of tubularity;
• plastic surgery of the face and eyelids: limited facelift, SMAS lifting, deep lifting techniques, ligature and endoscopic technologies, plasma lifting and lipofilling of the face;
• lip plastic surgery (bulhorn operation, VY plastic surgery, lip lipofilling);
• otoplasty;
• body plastic surgery: abdominoplasty, liposuction dermoliplasty, “tense-lateral” technology, all variants of classical techniques;
• liposuction (vacuum tumescent, syringe, MALL technique, ultrasonic liposuction, etc.);
• lipofilling of the body, hands, labia;
• liposculpture.

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