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    A Pioneer In Plastic Surgery

    Meet Board-Certified Plastic Surgeon Dr. David Rapaport

    Specializing in a wide range of facial, breast, and body treatments, NYC board-certified plastic surgeon Dr. Rapaport has been delivering exquisite results for over 27 years. His conservative, minimally invasive approach has been lauded by both peers and patients alike for its remarkable effectiveness, rapid recovery, and insistence on reducing post-operative pain and discomfort. 

    Whether you are seeking skillful facial rejuvenation, breast augmentation, liposuction, or body contouring, Dr. Rapaport brings decades of training and experience to every treatment plan he crafts, keeping your natural beauty at the focus of your aesthetic enhancement.

    Dr. Rapaport is also the founder of Aethos where he personally trains the team in advanced techniques.

    Meet Dr. Rapaport

    Refresh your aesthetic with the help of one of New York’s most trusted names in cosmetic surgery. Undergoing cosmetic enhancement and improvement can be one of the most introspective decisions you ever make, and as a discerning client, you will stand for nothing less than effortlessly natural elegance and uncompromised safety.

    We aim to make your transformative journey one of serenity, reward, and deep satisfaction, delivering the most carefully crafted, best-in-class plastic surgery NYC has to offer.

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    Frequently Asked Questions

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    Choosing a plastic surgeon in NYC can feel intimidating. When you’re looking at your options, it’s vital that you choose an experienced board-certified plastic surgeon in New York City. It is important to understand that one can become board-certified within months of completing residency. This means that many younger board certified plastic surgeons have, in fact, fairly limited experience operating and caring for patients on their own.

    Dr. Rapaport, on the other hand, brings with him world-class training and many years of surgical experience. Rapaport was accepted to Boston University’s six year medical program at age 16, having graduated high school a year early. He deferred his admission, spending that year in Israel, and ultimately transferred to the Israeli medical program at Tel Aviv University, where he received his MD degree in 1985. As the son of Holocaust survivors, Dr.Rapaport has always felt a special connection to Israel.

    Rapaport completed five years of general surgery training at Harvard’s Beth-Israel’s Hospital in Boston’s, two year plastic surgery residency at NYU, followed by a microsurgical fellowship. Dr. Rapaport has been a board-certified plastic surgeon since 1995 and is therefore among the most experienced plastic surgeons in New York.

    In addition to experience, character is equally as important in choosing the right plastic surgeon. Dr. Rapaport is well known among patients and fellow plastic surgeons alike as an honest practitioner who maintains the highest of integrity in his practice.

    Our surgical practice is based at 905 5th Ave. #1W, New York, NY 10021, on the edge of Central Park. We’re quite close to SummerStage in Central Park, The Frick Collection art museum, Le Charlot Parisian bistro, and Ladurée on Madison Avenue. Our location includes a state-of-the-art, fully accredited operating facility.

    Before the date of your procedure, you will meet with Dr. Rapaport for a personalized consultation at his surgical office. Alternatively, this consultation may take place at one of our Aethos medspa locations, either at Flatiron or at 50 E 61 st, directly across from the Lowe’s Regency Hotel. You can expect your consultation to include a thorough discussion of your concerns, your individual anatomy, and a thorough review of treatment options, including expectations and recovery. You will not feel rushed; your questions are encouraged.

    Following your consultation with Dr.Rapaport, you will meet with one of his coordinators who will review financial and scheduling matters.

    Every surgery has some degree of difficulty, and sometimes difficulty can present in unexpected ways due to findings during surgery. In Dr.Rapaport’s opinion, however, if a surgeon is confronting a surgery and feels it to be daunting, then they should pass on the surgery. A mature surgeon knows how to take a challenging problem and break it down into its components, and thereby overcome the problem. The key for avoiding difficulty is performing every step of the procedure meticulously. What Dr.Rapaport has found over his career is that difficulties can be self produced. Calmness should always prevail and surprises should be kept to a minimum.

    The most popular plastic surgery procedures at Rapaport in NYC include liposuction, breast augmentation, facelifts, and tummy tucks.

    Dr. Rapaport specializes in liposuction and other body-contouring surgeries, breast augmentation, and facial rejuvenation, making him an especially ideal choice for these procedures.

    Liposuction has been growing in popularity in recent years as people are becoming more familiar with its benefits. Liposuction is unique among plastic surgery procedures in that it provides permanent and often dramatic results, generally with minimal downtime. People are able to achieve permanent improvements in their fatty proportions, with tiny, barely visible scars, under twilight or local anesthesia, and can go back to work and nearly full physical activity within 48 hours. 

    Dr. Rappaport is a sought-after expert for breast augmentation for several reasons. He is likely the most experienced surgeon in New York with performing breast augmentation through the underarm approach, with endoscopic assistance. This means that a precise, beautiful breast augmentation can be performed, but with no scar at all on the breast! Instead, the scar is hidden in an underarm skin crease. Dr. Rappaport is also in demand for performing revisional breast, augmentation surgeries, in other words, correcting problems caused by other surgeons elsewhere in the past.

    Dr. Rapaport is sought out also for his facelift work which combines impressive but natural results with relatively short downtime. He typically performs a two layer mass facelift. He feels the deep plane facelift can compose undo risk to nerve damage and other complications as well as necessitating a longer downtime than most of his New York plastic surgery patients can tolerate. another feature is that he commonly performed these procedures under twilight rather than general anesthesia when possible.

    At Rapaport Plastic Surgery, our experts are highly skilled when it comes to minimally invasive and non-invasive aesthetic face and body treatments.

    Our state-of-the-art body treatments include CoolSculpting®, CoolSculpting® Elite, CoolTone®, Aveli™ for treatment of dimpling cellulite, and Sofwave for skin tightening and reduction of the appearance of cellulite

    CoolSculpting® uses cooling energy to reduce excess fatty tissue. CoolSculpting® Elite, the next generation of CoolSculpting® technology, accomplishes this even more quickly and effectively.

    Our cutting-edge facial procedures include injectables, the Trifecta and Bifecta minimally invasive facelift, and liquid rhinoplasty, as well as MOXI and BBL for improving skin texture and tone pigment

    We offer a full range of botulinum toxin muscle relaxers, including Botox, Dysport, and Daxxify, the latter offering results that on some patients last up to seven months and even longer thanks to its proprietary peptide formulation. Similarly, Dr. Rapaport and his trained nurse injectors provide fillers which include Restylane, Voluma, and the RHA line of fillers, as well as hyperdilute Radiesse and Sculptra for enhancement of buttocks and other areas. We use tools including laser vein finders and precision ultrasound devices to add to the precision and safety of our procedures.

    Dr. Rapaport’s Bifecta and Trifecta minimally invasive double-chin procedures combine double-chin liposuction, micro liposuction of the jowls (as appropriate), and heat-based tissue tightening using renuvion and Sofwave as appropriate. 

    While Dr.Rapaport makes every effort to provide excellent value for his services, they nonetheless may seem initially out of reach to some people. For this reason we work with a handful of reputable financing companies, and we make every effort to help you achieve your goals in a financially tolerable manner. These include Cherry medical financing, CareCredit medical financing, and PatientFi. These companies provide a variety of financing plans to help you find the ideal option for your needs and goals.