Dr. Harold Rosenfeld
Surgery - Plastics
Pasadena, CA
58 years experience male
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Pasadena, CA
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Surgery - Plastics
Plastic Surgery
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A 67-year-old member asked:
Dr. Harold Rosenfeldanswered
Surgery - Plastics 58 years experience
Yes: If you don't pull it up-"tenting the skin", use a sharp sterile scissor, and treat the skin to sterilize it . You can do this.
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A 35-year-old member asked:
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It depends: Surgical excision is the fastest method. Multiple steroid injections take months.Your doctor needs to individualize your options.
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A 42-year-old member asked:
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Any one you will use: Any spf-!5 or higher sunscreen that has a base appropriate to your needs. If you are going to be perspiring or swimming use a waterproof product. Cool... Read More
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A 29-year-old female asked:
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Yes: There are chemicals that you can apply at home to treat dark spots. They must be prescribed by your plastic surgeon or dermatologist.
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A 31-year-old member asked:
Dr. Harold Rosenfeldanswered
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No: This is a separate problem, get it checked.
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A 34-year-old member asked:
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Very effective: In the properly selected patient, a board certified plastic surgeon usually can satisfactorily resolve the problem.
Remember there are always "trade ... Read More
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A 39-year-old member asked:
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Sinusitis?: The deviated septum may have had nothing to do with your sinus problems. You need to be reevaluated to determine your diagnosis.
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A 38-year-old member asked:
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Unknown: Depending upon the true extent of the cancer, the technique used , and the available tissue for closure. Obviously this can't be aswered in this forum... Read More
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A 44-year-old member asked:
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Ask your doctor: You shoul understand the qualifications of your surgeon. The american society of plastic surgeons has a multi -page medical consent information form ... Read More
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A 33-year-old member asked:
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You can't: Scars are the result of healing . Unhealed wounds would be the result of " no scars".
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A 46-year-old member asked:
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Surgery - Plastics 58 years experience
Get help: Normal scar do not bleed easily. You should see a plastis surgeon, occasionally cancers arise in scar tissue and must be treated.
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A 29-year-old member asked:
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Yes: All healing results in a scar.
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A 44-year-old member asked:
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Gravity: Gravity is the woman's enemy and the plastic surgeon's friend.
Sagging of the breast occurs after weight loss , actual or after cessation of lactatio... Read More
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A 36-year-old member asked:
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No: This will not go away with medication.
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A 43-year-old member asked:
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NONE: Scars are result of healing injury. Usually the alternative to a scar is a hole.
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A male asked:
Dr. Harold Rosenfeldanswered
Surgery - Plastics 58 years experience
Ask your doctor: Each patient and each procedure of this type is individualized. Your surgeon is the best source of this infrmation.
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A 24-year-old female asked:
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Surgery - Plastics 58 years experience
See a dermatologist: The presence of recurrent cysts may be the symptom of a systemic problem that should be diagnosed and treated befor undertaking local therapy.
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A male asked:
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It may: Ask her ophthalmologist to do a "visual field" examination. The results will answer a number of your questions.
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A member asked:
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Yes: It is a common procedure. Your plastic surgeon will describe the available options.
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A male asked:
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It DEpends: Cup sizes are clothing manufacturers designations and vary from brand to brand, and with your trunk circumference. Your surgeon can describe your ap... Read More
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A 28-year-old female asked:
Dr. Harold Rosenfeldanswered
Surgery - Plastics 58 years experience
See below.: Surgery uasually takes 1-2 hours and is done as an outpatient. Almost all health plans exclude cosmetic surgery. Costs vary and will be detailed by yo... Read More
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A 46-year-old member asked:
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Surgery - Plastics 58 years experience
No: Damage is damage not normally relieved by time.
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A 28-year-old male asked:
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Surgery - Plastics 58 years experience
Destruction of hair : Hair follicles produce hair[shafts].Laser hair removal is the damaging of the hair follicles below the surface of the skin to prevent new shaft produc... Read More
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A 28-year-old male asked:
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Scars: Acne scars as all other scars are the result of healing damaged tissue. The term" acne" refers to the disease process that caused the injury ad not te... Read More
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A member asked:
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Probably: Your biology hasn't changed so you will prabably respod the same way to the same stimulus.
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A 41-year-old female asked:
Dr. Harold Rosenfeldanswered
Surgery - Plastics 58 years experience
Surgery: Deviated septum is only corrected by surgery [or rarely by trauma].
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A 49-year-old male asked:
Dr. Harold Rosenfeldanswered
Surgery - Plastics 58 years experience
See your doctor: Pain swelling and redness are not the normal results of execs. They may be warning or symptoms of more significant problems.
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A 30-year-old member asked:
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Surgery - Plastics 58 years experience
Ask him: Individual variations require individualized care after taking a medical history and doing an examination.
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A 46-year-old member asked:
Dr. Harold Rosenfeldanswered
Surgery - Plastics 58 years experience
Commonly: Skin stretched beyond it's elastic limits will sag.
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A 34-year-old member asked:
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Surgery - Plastics 58 years experience
It depends: If this is a change , you should see your surgeon and ask that it be investigated.
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A 46-year-old member asked:
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Surgery - Plastics 58 years experience
Treatment: You may hide them with make up or you will need to see someone o treat them-usually with a laser. Therapy must be individualized to your skin type etc... Read More
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A 40-year-old member asked:
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Surgery - Plastics 58 years experience
Usually sun: Basal carcinoma is du rdiaion damage, most commonly. It may also be caused by a genetic disorder.
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A 36-year-old member asked:
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Surgery - Plastics 58 years experience
Naturally: Assuming no infection they heal as any othr wound of the same are.
Commonly they are not surgically repaired or are very loosely closed because of co... Read More
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A 31-year-old member asked:
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Surgery - Plastics 58 years experience
Skin resurfacing: Individual patients/scars vary so therapy must be situation specific. Laser resurfacing, dermabrasion, surgical excisions are the usual methods for de... Read More
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A female asked:
Dr. Harold Rosenfeldanswered
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Ask your doctor: Individual situations require individual solutions.
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A male asked:
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Yes: Remember you will be trading scars for contours.
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A male asked:
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Yes: Your problem is commonly solved in one procedure.
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A female asked:
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Gynecomastia : Gynecomastia is male breast enlargement due to glandular over growth. Generally the fibrous glandular tissue is not amenable to suction removal. Breas... Read More
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A 46-year-old member asked:
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Surgery - Plastics 58 years experience
No: A keloid grows beyond the boundaries of a wound.
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A 35-year-old member asked:
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Yes: Assuming you are in good health and your surgeon is properly trained working in a safe facility.
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A 23-year-old female asked:
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No: It won't work.
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A 37-year-old member asked:
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Yes: Necrotizing fasciitis. Is due to an infection by bacteria .The extreme manifestation may not occur but spread of infection to others is the risk.
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A 49-year-old member asked:
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Surgery - Plastics 58 years experience
It DEpends: The most common cause is sleeping with your head flat on the mattress, without using a pillow.
If slight elevation doesn't improve the situation your... Read More
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A 36-year-old member asked:
I am having a breast reduction in 4 days. should i be concerned that i quit smoking only a week ago?
Dr. Harold Rosenfeldanswered
Surgery - Plastics 58 years experience
Ask your doctor: It is not fair to ask someone not involvedin you care.
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A 42-year-old female asked:
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What is the Question: You may have much more dangerous symptoms tha from carpal tunnel, . Youmust get checked promptly.
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A 57-year-old male asked:
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NO: Sometimes the pathologists diagnosing the tissue require consultations that maytake weeks. Straight forward diagnosis takes less time.
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A 20-year-old male asked:
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Surgery - Plastics 58 years experience
There is no way .: Stretch marks are prmanent and not amenable to topical therapy. Surgery can remove some and stretching the remaing skin can obscure others.
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A 35-year-old member asked:
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Surgery - Plastics 58 years experience
No: There should not be a problem if you had a "usual" incision.
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A 40-year-old member asked:
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Surgery - Plastics 58 years experience
Its an antimicrobial: Silver dressings are used to treat/prevent infection.
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A 39-year-old member asked:
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Surgery: Usually the cyst wall needs to be removed to prevent recurrence.
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TestimonialsRecommendations and Thank you notes are endorsements given from patients or other doctors.
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Dec 18, 2012
Dr. Rosenfeld is a highly professional, kind, caring, and knowledgeable physician and surgeon. I recommend him to anyone seeking quality care and advice.
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Mar 30, 2015
Dr. Rosenfeld is an amazing doctor! #nationaldoctorsday2015 #virtualflower1
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Mar 31, 2015
Dr. Rosenfeld is an amazing doctor! #nationaldoctorsday2015 #virtualflower1
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Thank you, your answer was very helpful! Getting this and rhinoplasty in two days :)))))
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Thanks for your quick reply! Tried that already. I'm looking for a permanent solution.
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Thank you, your answer was very helpful! I get another test next week
Education & Training
Medical/Graduate school
University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine
Graduated 1965MD
Residency
Queen of Angels Hospital
Residency
Huntington Memorial Hospital
Awards
Top Plastic Surgeon , First Place, Los Angeles, CA - Winter
2013
HealthTap Founding Doctor
Affiliations
California Society of Plastic Surgeons
American Society of Plastic Surgeons
American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
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