Pamela Lipkin (born 1952) is a

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-based facial plastic surgeon, specializing in nose work. She has appeared on ''

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'' and ''

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,'' among other media, weighing in on plastic surgery matters. She was married to New York City mega-developer

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until 2017.

Background

She attended

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and graduated from

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in 1978 for her medical degree. She has one son from her first marriage and gave $10,000 to Republican

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's gubernatorial campaign.

Career

Lipkin is a noted nose specialist. An article appearing in 1991 called "The Miracle Worker" exposed her expertise in repairing bad rhinoplasties. She is adept at both primary and revision rhinoplasties. She has been an advocate of

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-use since the 1990s, before its approval by the

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in April 2002. In 2003, she weighed in on

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's nose job supporting the view that it was not as the star had described in the media, and that it was actually beyond repair. She has also been forthright about taking in patients in their 30s although experts have opined such an age is too young for facial procedures due to the risk of scarring spreading. On HealthGrades, she rates 4.7 out of 5 stars in patient satisfaction.

Legal issues

In 1999, a Manhattan jury awarded a 62-year-old patient of Lipkin's $600,000 for what they believed was an overzealous series of cosmetic procedures—

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and

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operations, a

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, and cheek implant corrections—on a woman who was already suffering from an addiction to plastic surgery.

References

External links

Official website
- Archived from 2018

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