Cosmetic Plastic Surgery

At the UConn Health Center, Rajiv Y. Chandawarkar, M.D., a highly trained cosmetic plastic surgeon, offers contemporary aesthetic services to help men and women enhance their appearance and sense of well being. All services are offered in an environment of trust, respect and confidentiality. Dr. Chandawarkar offers a full range of cosmetic procedures and plastic surgeries, including complex cases following trauma or chronic problems.

Cosmetic Services

Unlike a generation ago, today’s most popular and successful procedures do not involve long hospital stays or extended recovery times. Rather, most procedures are performed on an outpatient basis with markedly shorter recovery times.

Surgical Services

Breast Procedures
A number of procedures can safely reshape or resize breasts.

• Breast augmentation
• Breast reduction
• Breast lift

Tummy Tuck
This procedure flattens the abdomen by removing excess fat and skin and tightening muscles of the abdominal wall.

Liposuction
This procedure helps to improve body shape by removing exercise-resistant fat deposits. Common locations for liposuction include chin, cheeks, neck, upper arms, above the breasts, abdomen, buttocks, hips, thighs, knees, calves and ankles.

Facial Surgery
The average facelift done today lasts ten to fifteen years. The best candidates are men and women whose face and neck have started to sag but have good skin elasticity. Strong and well-defined bone structure is also a plus.

• Full face lift
• Neck lift
• Blepharoplasty to remove baggy eyelids
• Browlift
• Nose surgery
• Ear surgery
• Forehead lift

Facial Rejuvenation Services
Several non-surgical procedures are available to restore wrinkled, blemished, unevenly pigmented or sun-damaged facial skin.

About Dr. Chandawarkar

Dr. Chandawarkar is a cosmetic plastic surgeon who is credentialed with the American Board of Plastic Surgery and is also fellowship trained in cancer reconstructive surgery. He is chief of the division of plastic and reconstructive surgery at the UConn Health Center.

Dr. Chandawarkar joined UConn in 2003 from the department of plastic surgery at the prestigious M.D. Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas in Houston.

He received a master of surgery degree from the University of Bombay in India and completed post-graduate training in surgery and surgical oncology in India and Japan. In addition, he completed a research fellowship in the head and neck service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and a research fellowship in cancer immunology at Fordham University.

Dr. Chandawarkar completed a general surgery residency at Akron General Medical Center in Ohio and a fellowship in plastic and reconstructive surgery at Summa Health System and Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, also in Akron.

Cancer Reconstructive Surgery

At UConn’s Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center, Dr. Chandawarkar offers patients the latest innovations in aesthetic reconstructive surgery services. To learn more, visit http://cancer.uchc.edu.