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Plastic Surgeons Ranked in Order of
Their Ratings and Reviews (Summary)

All Ratings Above 4 (Out of 5 Stars)
Rank Plastic Surgeon Total
1 Mehrdad Mofid, MD 2858
2 Steve Laverson, MD 1852
3 Gregory C. Park, MD 1470
4 Susan Kaweski, MD 983
5 Paul E. Chasan, MD 865
6 Salvatore J. Pacella, MD 700
7 Reza Sadrian, MD 657
8 Jeffrey Umansky, MD 624
9 Moneer Jaibaji, MD 601
10 Jason R. Hess, MD 594
11 Vincent P. Marin, MD 581
12 Michael J. Brucker, MD 568
13 Daniel Brown, MD 533
14 Raluan G. Soltero, MD 513
15 Jason D. Toranto, MD 502
16 John Apostolides, MD 494
17 Yale M. Kadesky, MD 451
18 Munish Batra, MD 406
19 James C. Pietraszek, MD 399
20 Glynn Bolitho, MD 343
21 Kian J. Samimi, MD 333
22 John Alexander II, MD 317
23 Robert Singer, MD 312
24 Scott Barttelbort, MD 297
25 William Umansky, MD 293
26 Robert Pollack, MD 280
27 Abhay Gupta, MD 263
28 William J. Seare, MD 262
29 Hector Salazar-Reyes, MD 260
30 Larry Pollack, MD 242
31 Richard Chaffoo, MD 225
32 Mark B. Schoemann, MD 206
33 Diana B. Breister-Ghosh, MD 202
34 Scott R. Miller, MD 200
35 Alfonso Camberos, MD 172
36 Jessica S. Collins, MD 143
37 Antoine Hallak, MD 138
38 Barry S. Handler, MD 118
39 H. Michael Roark, MD 115
40 Gehaan F. D'Souza, MD 105
41 Michael J. Halls, MD 104
42 Ralph E. Holmes, MD 102
43 Jordan D. Sinow, MD 86
44 Mark E. Gold, MD 78
45 William M. Shuffett, MD 75
46 Ervin Wheeler, MD 60
47 Samuel H. Lance, MD 55
48 Craig J. Salt, MD 29
Some Ratings Between 3-4 (Out of 5 Stars)
Rank Plastic Surgeon Total
49 Tom Pousti, MD 10466
50 Joseph L. Grzeskiewicz, MD 619
51 Anshu Gupta, MD 574
52 James J. Chao, MD 504
53 Gilbert W. Lee, MD 458
54 Robert E. Kearney, MD 432
55 Stephen M. Krant, MD 347
56 Ronald J. Edelson, MD 338
57 Steven R. Cohen, MD 311
58 Gregory R. Scott, MD 295
59 Anne M. Wallace, MD 244
60 Lori H. Saltz, MD 234
61 David Kupfer, MD 226
62 Marek K. Dobke, MD 223
63 Mark Rechnic, MD 215
64 John D. Smoot, MD 212
65 Laura A. McMillan, MD 185
66 Amanda A. Gosman, MD 177
67 Johan Brahme, MD 176
68 Scott C. Sessions, MD 145
69 Khang T. Nguyen, MD 69
70 Richard M. Bodor, MD 65
71 Jonathan S. Wilensky, MD 63
72 Cissy Tan, MD 59
73 Marialyn J. Sardo, MD 45
74 Ahmed S. Suliman, MD 43
75 Rishi Jindal, MD 39
76 Mayer Tenenhaus, MD 29
77 Octavio Cardona-Loya, MD 23
Some Ratings Below 3 (Out of 5 Stars)
Rank Plastic Surgeon Total
78 Farid B. Mozaffari, MD 461
79 Lester R. Mohler, MD 192
80 James Amsberry, MD 134
81 C. Dennis Bucko, MD 93
82 Thomas Ray Vecchione, MD 85
83 Katerina M. Gallus, MD 69
84 Jose E. Otero, MD 48
85 Yuan Liu, MD 29

Detailed Ratings and Reviews

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Plastic Surgeons with All Ratings Above 4 (Out of 5 Stars)
Rank Total score Plastic Surgeon Office Location Vitals Healthgrades Realself Google Grand Total
Score # Total Score # Total Score # Total Score # Total
1 2858 Mehrdad Mofid, MD La Jolla 4.8 266 1277 4.8 160 768 4.9 51 250 4.9 115 564 2858
2 1852 Steve Laverson, MD San Diego 5.0 148 740 4.8 150 720 4.6 82 377 5.0 3 15 1852
3 1470 Gregory C. Park, MD Oceanside 4.7 49 230 5.0 248 1240 1470
4 983 Susan Kaweski, MD La Mesa 4.6 58 267 4.9 141 691 5.0 5 25 983
5 865 Paul E. Chasan, MD Del Mar 4.5 40 180 4.5 40 180 4.9 103 505 865
6 700 Salvatore J. Pacella, MD San Diego 4.3 58 249 4.4 32 141 5.0 62 310 700
7 657 Reza Sadrian, MD La Jolla 4.9 29 142 5.0 43 215 5.0 60 300 657
8 624 Jeffrey Umansky, MD La Jolla 4.7 29 136 4.1 10 41 5.0 72 360 4.8 18 86 624
9 601 Moneer Jaibaji, MD Coronado 4.8 31 149 4.5 22 99 5.0 18 90 4.7 56 263 601
10 594 Jason R. Hess, MD San Diego 4.8 62 298 4.8 20 96 5.0 13 65 5.0 27 135 594
11 581 Vincent P. Marin, MD La Jolla 4.9 16 78 5.0 7 35 5.0 77 385 4.6 18 83 581
12 568 Michael J. Brucker, MD La Jolla 4.8 43 206 4.7 29 136 4.7 48 226 568
13 533 Daniel Brown, MD La Jolla 4.8 20 96 4.3 10 43 4.8 82 394 533
14 513 Raluan G. Soltero, MD San Diego 4.6 18 83 5.0 4 20 5.0 82 410 513
15 502 Jason D. Toranto, MD San Diego 4.6 22 101 4.7 55 259 5.0 2 10 4.9 27 132 502
16 494 John Apostolides, MD San Diego 4.4 33 145 4.0 8 32 4.9 55 270 4.3 11 47 494
17 451 Yale M. Kadesky, MD Escondido 4.3 22 95 4.5 18 81 4.3 6 26 4.8 52 250 451
18 406 Munish Batra, MD San Diego 4.2 44 185 4.6 19 87 4.3 31 133 406
19 399 James C. Pietraszek, MD San Diego 4.5 22 99 5.0 26 130 5.0 20 100 5.0 14 70 399
20 343 Glynn Bolitho, MD La Jolla 4.9 33 162 4.8 20 96 5.0 17 85 343
21 333 Kian J. Samimi, MD San Diego 4.5 28 126 4.6 32 147 4.3 8 34 4.3 6 26 333
22 317 John Alexander II, MD San Diego 5.0 8 40 4.6 22 101 4.7 15 71 4.8 22 106 317
23 312 Robert Singer, MD La Jolla 4.3 12 52 4.6 20 92 4.8 35 168 312
24 297 Scott Barttelbort, MD La Jolla 4.9 28 137 5.0 16 80 5.0 16 80 297
25 293 William Umansky, MD La Jolla 4.8 24 115 5.0 12 60 4.9 24 118 293
26 280 Robert Pollack, MD San Diego 5.0 2 10 5.0 34 170 5.0 20 100 280
27 263 Abhay Gupta, MD San Diego 4.5 34 153 4.7 16 75 4.2 6 25 5.0 2 10 263
28 262 William J. Seare, MD Carlsbad 5.0 5 25 4.7 27 127 4.6 24 110 262
29 260 Hector Salazar-Reyes, MD Chula Vista 5.0 12 60 5.0 17 85 5.0 5 25 5.0 18 90 260
30 242 Larry Pollack, MD San Diego 4.3 13 56 4.7 13 61 5.0 18 90 5.0 7 35 242
31 225 Richard Chaffoo, MD La Jolla 4.5 8 36 4.4 7 31 4.8 33 158 225
32 206 Mark B. Schoemann, MD Encinitas 4.7 12 56 5.0 12 60 5.0 18 90 206
33 202 Diana B. Breister-Ghosh, MD San Diego 5.0 11 55 4.6 9 41 4.8 22 106 202
34 200 Scott R. Miller, MD La Jolla 4.8 17 82 5.0 12 60 4.5 13 59 200
35 172 Alfonso Camberos, MD San Diego 4.0 22 88 5.0 12 60 4.5 3 14 5.0 2 10 172
36 143 Jessica S. Collins, MD San Diego 4.7 6 28 5.0 21 105 5.0 2 10 143
37 138 Antoine Hallak, MD San Diego 4.4 10 44 4.2 5 21 5.0 5 25 4.4 11 48 138
38 118 Barry S. Handler, MD San Diego 4.2 10 42 4.0 4 16 5.0 6 30 5.0 6 30 118
39 115 H. Michael Roark, MD La Jolla 5.0 8 40 5.0 15 75 115
40 105 Gehaan F. D'Souza, MD Carlsbad 5.0 20 100 5.0 1 5 105
41 104 Michael J. Halls, MD La Jolla 4.5 15 68 4.2 5 21 5.0 3 15 104
42 102 Ralph E. Holmes, MD San Diego 4.7 9 42 5.0 6 30 5.0 6 30 102
43 86 Jordan D. Sinow, MD San Diego 4.3 15 65 4.2 5 21 86
44 78 Mark E. Gold, MD Rancho Bernardo 4.7 7 33 5.0 2 10 5.0 7 35 78
45 75 William M. Shuffett, MD Coronado 5.0 4 20 5.0 11 55 75
46 60 Ervin Wheeler, MD La Jolla 5.0 5 25 5.0 4 20 5.0 3 15 60
47 55 Samuel H. Lance, MD San Diego 5.0 8 40 5.0 3 15 55
48 29 Craig J. Salt, MD San Diego 4.8 4 19 5.0 1 5 5.0 1 5 29
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Plastic Surgeons with Some Ratings Between 3-4 (Out of 5 Stars)
Rank Total score Plastic Surgeon Office Location Vitals Healthgrades Realself Google Grand Total
Score # Total Score # Total Score # Total Score # Total
49 10466 Tom Pousti, MD San Diego 4.7 80 376 4.5 46 207 5.0 1972 9860 3.8 6 23 10466
50 619 Joseph L. Grzeskiewicz, MD San Diego 3.5 6 21 5.0 4 20 4.9 118 578 619
51 574 Anshu Gupta, MD Solana Beach 4.7 13 61 3.9 7 27 4.9 52 255 4.8 48 230 574
52 504 James J. Chao, MD Encinitas 3.5 41 144 3.6 14 50 5.0 62 310 504
53 458 Gilbert W. Lee, MD San Diego 4.3 33 142 3.8 30 114 4.7 43 202 458
54 432 Robert E. Kearney, MD San Diego 4.0 21 84 3.5 8 28 5.0 39 195 5.0 25 125 432
55 347 Stephen M. Krant, MD La Jolla 4.5 31 140 3.6 21 76 4.7 28 132 347
56 338 Ronald J. Edelson, MD San Diego 4.4 17 75 3.7 13 48 5.0 43 215 338
57 311 Steven R. Cohen, MD San Diego 3.9 33 129 3.9 22 86 4.8 20 96 311
58 295 Gregory R. Scott, MD San Diego 3.9 21 82 3.0 36 108 5.0 21 105 295
59 244 Anne M. Wallace, MD La Jolla 3.9 42 164 3.8 21 80 244
60 234 Lori H. Saltz, MD La Jolla 4.5 8 36 5.0 3 15 3.9 47 183 234
61 226 David Kupfer, MD San Diego 3.8 23 87 3.0 34 102 3.3 11 36 226
62 223 Marek K. Dobke, MD San Diego 3.9 34 133 4.0 10 40 5.0 1 5 5.0 9 45 223
63 215 Mark Rechnic, MD San Diego 3.9 7 27 3.7 6 22 4.6 36 166 215
64 212 John D. Smoot, MD La Jolla 3.9 20 78 4.6 10 46 4.4 20 88 212
65 185 Laura A. McMillan, MD San Diego 4.6 31 143 3.9 7 27 5.0 2 10 5.0 1 5 185
66 177 Amanda A. Gosman, MD San Diego 3.4 30 102 3.1 8 25 3.6 14 50 177
67 176 Johan Brahme, MD La Jolla 3.7 17 63 3.4 5 17 4.0 24 96 176
68 145 Scott C. Sessions, MD La Mesa 3.6 18 65 3.0 18 54 3.7 7 26 145
69 69 Khang T. Nguyen, MD San Diego 3.3 6 20 4.5 11 50 69
70 65 Richard M. Bodor, MD San Diego 3.8 17 65 65
71 63 Jonathan S. Wilensky, MD La Jolla 3.3 13 43 5.0 4 20 63
72 59 Cissy Tan, MD San Diego 3.5 8 28 4.2 5 21 5.0 1 5 5.0 1 5 59
73 45 Marialyn J. Sardo, MD La Jolla 4.2 5 21 3.4 7 24 45
74 43 Ahmed S. Suliman, MD San Diego 3.8 10 38 5.0 1 5 43
75 39 Rishi Jindal, MD San Diego 5.0 1 5 3.7 3 11 3.8 6 23 39
76 29 Mayer Tenenhaus, MD La Jolla 3.5 4 14 5.0 3 15 29
77 23 Octavio Cardona-Loya, MD Chula Vista 3.0 6 18 5.0 1 5 23
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Plastic Surgeons with Some Ratings Below 3 (Out of 5 Stars)
Rank Total score Plastic Surgeon Office Location Vitals Healthgrades Realself Google Grand Total
Score # Total Score # Total Score # Total Score # Total
78 461 Farid B. Mozaffari, MD San Diego 4.9 47 230 5.0 37 185 5.0 9 45 1.0 1 1 461
79 192 Lester R. Mohler, MD San Diego 3.8 16 61 2.7 29 78 4.1 13 53 192
80 134 James Amsberry, MD San Diego 4.8 4 19 5.0 6 30 1.0 1 1 4.9 17 83 134
81 93 C. Dennis Bucko, MD San Diego 4.4 9 40 4.1 11 45 2.3 3 7 1.0 1 1 93
82 85 Thomas Ray Vecchione, MD San Diego 3.7 6 22 2.0 4 8 5.0 11 55 85
83 69 Katerina M. Gallus, MD San Diego 4.6 5 23 1.0 1 1 5.0 9 45 69
84 48 Jose E. Otero, MD San Diego 2.4 5 12 2.1 7 15 2.4 9 22 48
85 29 Yuan Liu, MD San Marcos 3.7 6 22 2.3 3 7 29
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How to Read the Tables

SCORE: The "score" column for each review site lists the average score assigned to that doctor by the people who posted ratings on that review website. Each site uses a scale from 1-5, with 5 being the highest rating possible.

BOX COLOR REFLECTS THE AVERAGE SCORE:
  • Green Boxes: Average Score is between 4-5
  • Yellow Boxes: Average Score is between 3.0-3.9
  • Red Boxes: Average Score is between 1.0-2.9
  • Clear Boxes: When there is no score to report for this doctor on this review site, the box remains blank

#: The "#" column lists the number of reviewers who posted ratings and reviews for each doctor on each review site.

TOTAL: The "Total" column is the product of the score and the number of reviewers.

GRAND TOTAL: The "Grand Total" column is the sum of the "Total" scores from each review site. Plastic surgeons are listed in order of their Grand Total Scores, from highest to lowest, within each section.

GRAND TOTAL BOX COLOR:
  • GREEN Grand Total Boxes: Grand Total Boxes are colored GREEN when the doctor received average scores of 4.0 or higher from each of the ratings sites that reported ratings for the doctor.
  • YELLOW Grand Total Boxes: Grand Total Boxes are colored YELLOW when the doctor received an average score of 3.0-3.9 from at least one of the ratings sites.
  • RED Grand Total Boxes: Grand Total Boxes are colored RED when the doctor received an average score of 1.0 to 2.9 from at least one of the ratings sites.

SECTIONS: Plastic surgeons were divided into three sections, based upon their Grand Total Box color:

  • GREEN Section: The plastic surgeons who received average ratings of 4.0 or higher from all source sites appear in the green section and are ranked from highest to lowest Grand Total within that section.
  • YELLOW Section: The plastic surgeons who received one or more average score of 3.0-3.9 appear in the yellow section and are ranked from highest to lowest Grand Total within that section.
  • RED Section: The plastic surgeons who received one or more average score below 3.0 appear in the red section and are ranked from highest to lowest Grand Total within that section.

EMPTY BOXES: Empty white boxes indicate that we were unable to find ratings for that doctor on that ratings site. There could be many reasons for this including that the ratings site used a different spelling or location for the doctor than the ones that the American Board of Plastic Surgery used; it could mean things, none of which would suggest that there is something wrong with the doctor. As such, empty boxes neither count for nor against a doctors' score on Top Plastic Surgeon Reviews.

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Things to Make Note of as You Review the Tables

Plastic Surgeons on this Site: This website includes plastic surgeons who are certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery. Doctors who perform plastic surgery but who are not certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery are not included on this site. Top Plastic Surgeon Reviews uses ABPS's website to determine which plastic surgeons are certified by ABPS (vs certified by another board) and which plastic surgeons are active (vs retired). With regard to the latter, ABPS' website is not infallible, so we sometimes include plastic surgeons who are retired, but who are still listed as active by ABPS. Evidently, retiring plastic surgeons routinely fail to notify the ABPS (as well as the ratings websites) that they have retired, so their inclusion on this site is inevitable unless we are informed otherwise. If you are aware that any of the plastic surgeons listed above have retired, then please let us know so that we may update our database.

Ratings Sites: There are sites beyond those listed here which provide physician reviews, but not all review sites could be included for practical reasons. The plastic surgery review sites which, in the opinion of TopPlasticSurgeonReviews.com, are the most popular and most pertinent were selected for this website. We have observed that the ratings and reviews for most plastic surgeons tend to be consistent across all ratings sites, so inclusion of additional sites would not likely change the ratings for most plastic surgeons in a significant way.

Few Ratings: Keep in mind that if a doctor has few ratings, this does not mean that the doctor is not a competent plastic surgeon. It may mean that the doctor does not perform as much surgery as the other doctors, or that the doctor has not been in practice as long, or that the doctor patients do not typically write online reviews, or a variety of other reasons.

Low Ratings: If a doctor has received ratings that placed the doctor in the yellow or red section, this also does not mean that s/he is not a good plastic surgeon. All it means is that they have one or more unfavorable ratings. And there are many reasons why good doctors can sometimes have unfavorable ratings including the following: 1) A complication or bad result (all plastic surgeons have them) which caused a patient to write one or more bad reviews. This may not mean that the doctor did anything wrong, even though the patient thought so. In other words, the same complications could have occurred no matter which plastic surgeon operated on the patient who wrote the unfavorable review(s). 2) Bad reviews placed fraudulently by someone wishing to damage the plastic surgeon's reputation (yes, this happens). In these cases, the plastic surgeon typically has little recourse with the ratings site, and they cannot do anything about it. 3) Misplaced ratings: There are cases in which a patient unintentionally rated the wrong doctor due to commonality of one doctor's name with another's. These situations are most obvious when the patient includes details of care indicating that the care was in a specialty different than that of the doctor who received the rating. 4) Occasionally, a doctor receives a glowing review and only one out of five stars from the patient who wrote the review. In these cases, the patient might have been thinking "#1" for "first place," but no one will ever know. In these situations the doctor's average score is pulled down by the rating, even though it should have been raised by receiving a high rating. There are many reasons why a low score does not necessarily correlate with the care that a doctor delivers. This is why visitors to this site should not attempt to read anything into a low score. Visitors should instead use this site as a gateway to the source sites (Vitals.com, Healthgrades.com, Realself.com, and Google.com) to see the ratings and read all of the reviews themselves. By visiting the source sites, a visitor will much more easily be able to interpret the validity of all scores.

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