Best Endoscopic facelift plastic surgeons in Ukraine: TOP 7 doctors

Dr. Svitlana Rabotenko is a leading plastic surgeon at Vidnova Clinic. She holds the Highest Qualification Category. Dr. Rabotenko is an international member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) and the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS). She is also a member of the All-Ukrainian Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons.

Dr. Rabotenko has over 16 years of experience. She performs about 300 operations each year. Her main areas of expertise are breast, body, and facial plastic surgery. She completed advanced training at the P.L. Shupyk National Medical Academy. Dr. Rabotenko regularly attends international conferences and helps advance plastic surgery in Ukraine.

Patients Requests:

• Cosmetic, aesthetic and functional problems of appearance: face, body, limbs.
• Mammoplasty;
• Breast augmentation
• Breast lift (mastopexy)
• Abdominoplasty (abdominoplasty) - all types
• Body liposuction
• Lipofilling
• Intimate plastic
• Aesthetic facial surgery - blepharoplasty, face lift, neck lift.

Surgery:

Plastic cosmetic (aesthetic) surgery:

• Breast plastic surgery, mammoplasty  (breast augmentation), breast reduction, breast asymmetry correction. Areola correction, fibroadenoma removal, breast lift. Breast liposuction. Removal and replacement of breast implants. Removal of mammary glands in men - gynecomastia.
• Abdominoplasty, tummy tuck. Plastic surgery of the rectus abdominis muscles is an endoscopic surgical intervention with minimal trauma, quick recovery and no traces of the intervention.
• Abdominoplasty – miniabdominoplasty with correction of a scar after cesarean section, abdominoplasty with displacement of the navel, plastic diastasis of the rectus muscles is performed in parallel, hernias are removed, and the waist is formed.
• Removal of benign formations of the skin and soft tissues using modern laser technologies and an excellent aesthetic effect (absorbable cosmetic suture).
• Liposuction – removal of fat deposits to improve body contours. The material obtained in the process of liposuction can be used for lipofilling of the buttocks, breasts, face and other areas.
• Blepharoplasty – removal of excess skin and hernias around the eyes. Leads to a general rejuvenating effect.
• Eyebrow lift   - opening of the eye and look by lifting the eyebrows. Gentle technique with quick recovery. For a greater effect, it is advisable to combine with blepharoplasty and facelift. 
• Face lifting (facelift) is performed using safe modern methods, a short scar technique, provides quick rehabilitation and a long-lasting rejuvenating effect of the entire body.
• Neck plastic surgery is a method of liposuction, platysmoplasty. Restores the youth of the neck, eliminates "goose neck", excess and sagging skin, returns a clear contour and "angle of youth".
• Otoplasty - correction of the shape of the auricles.
• Intimate contour plastic - aesthetic correction of labia minora and labia majora, position of the clitoris, removal of skin folds in the anal area, if necessary, can be combined with removal of hemorrhoids and fissure plastic surgery.

Techniques that the doctor possesses:

• Operations in the field of cosmetic, aesthetic plastic surgery of the breast, body and face;
• Laparoscopic and laser surgery.

More about the doctor

Education

• Graduated from the National Medical University named after O.O. Bogomoltsia, Kyiv, specialty - medical practice (1996).
• He completed an internship at the National Medical University named after O.O. Bogomolets, specialty "surgery" (1998).

Certification training

• Internship at the American medical center, Cyprus, Nicosia - mammoplasty techniques, revision mammoplasty with Motiva implants under the guidance of Demetris Stavrou (2021).
• Internship in aesthetic surgery in South Korea, Seoul. Girin Piastic Surgery Clinics, Gowon Worldwide, Sures clinic (2020).
• TU "Esthetic Blepharoplasty" at NMAPO named after P. L. Shupyk (2020).
• The course "Plastic surgery of the mammary gland" on the basis of the Department of plastic surgery at the Shalimov Institute under the guidance of prof. Halych S.P. (2019).
• Training course "Rejuvenating and aesthetic surgery of the head, face, and neck. Blepharoplasty" as part of the "UAPS INTENSIVE" program at the Ukrainian Academy of Plastic Surgery in Kyiv (2019).
• Master class "Augmentation mammoplasty - choice of surgery and implant technique" "Ukrainian Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons USAPS" Kyiv (2019).
• Ukrainian Academy of Plastic Surgery - body contouring (2019).
• TU "Plastic surgery of the mammary gland", in NMAPO named after P. L. Shupyk (2019).
• Training at the Center of surgical innovations "Laparoscopic Herniology" (2018)
• TU "Laparoscopic Herniology", Center for Surgical Innovations (2017).
• Obtaining additional specialization "Proctology" (2017).
• TU "Laparoscopic surgery", NMAPO (2014).
• Awarded a surgeon of the highest category (2014).
• Advancement of the qualification of a doctor-oncologist on the basis of KMAPO named after P..L. Shupyka (1999).

Scientific, teaching work and membership in specialized organizations

• Member of USAPS (Ukrainian Association of Plastic Surgeons).
• Participation in conferences and workshops on aesthetic surgery in 2019-20.

Experience:

2012 – present – surgeon, ophthalmologist, plastic surgeon in private clinics.

Scientific conferences, exhibitions, seminars, symposia, workshops:

• State Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education, Ministry of Education and Social Development, Moscow Academy of Postgraduate Education, Optometry Course, 2009.

• Donetsk National Medical University named after M. Gorky, confirmation of specialization, 2010.

• Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. Ukrainian Military Medical Academy (Kyiv, Ukraine), Confirmation of certificate in specialty, 2016.

• Training “Providing First Aid to Victims and Behavior in Emergency Situations” 2016.

• Participation in the international conference “White Nights”, St. Petersburg, 2012-2014.

• V State Congress. Plastic surgery and aesthetic medicine. Moscow, 2016.

• Webinars of the pharmaceutical company Alcon on modern treatment of dry eye syndrome, 2016.

• Ukrainian House, scientific and practical conference of ophthalmologists of Ukraine with international participation “REFRACTION PLAIN AIR '17”, October 2017.

• Traditional and Extended Blepharoplasty, World Aesthetic Education, 2021.

• Blepharoplasty, Facial Rejuvenation and Contouring, International Hybrid Course, AA Surgery, 2021.

• Facial Anatomy Cadaver Course, Warsaw, 2022.

Education:

• First Saint Petersburg State Medical University (PSMU) named after I.P. Pavlov, specialization “General Medicine”, 2003;

• Donetsk National Medical University named after Maxim Gorky, specialization “Ophthalmology”, 2010;

• Specialization in Plastic Surgery, National Medical University, 2022.

The procedures I perform:

• upper eyelid plastic surgery;

• surgical plastic surgery of the lower eyelids;

• transconjunctival plastic surgery of the lower eyelids;

• circular eyelid surgery;

• contopexy (foxy eye);

• eyebrow lift;

• removal of foreign bodies from the conjunctiva and cornea.

Participation in associations:

• member of the Association of Plastic Surgeons of Ukraine.

• 2003–2008 – Donetsk National Medical University named after M. Gorky, Faculty of Dentistry, diploma with honors.
• 2008–2010 – Donetsk National Medical University named after M. Gorky, internship in dentistry.
• 2012 – Donetsk National Medical University named after M. Gorky, certification in the specialty "surgical dentistry".

Additional education:

• 2008–2010 – Donetsk National University, major: Economics and Entrepreneurship, Bachelor’s degree.
• 2010–2011 – Donetsk National University, specialty “Economic Cybernetics”, specialist.
• 2017 – specialization in facial plastic surgery at the Department of Combustiology and Plastic Surgery of the P. L. Shupik National Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education.

• 1994 – 1998 – a traumatologist in Kyiv City Clinic Hospital No 30.
• 1998 – present – a trauma-surgeon in the City Centre for Microsurgery and Hand Surgery in Kiev City Clinic Hospital No 3.
• 1998 – present – a plastic surgeon in the private clinic Kyiv City Centre for Plastic Microsurgery and Aesthetic Medicine “Certus”.
  
  
  1994 – graduation from Ukrainian State Medical University with a degree in medical practice.
• 1994-1997 – an internship at Ukrainian State Medical University in Orthopaedics and Rheumatology Faculty.
• 1996 – graduation from Ukrainian Institute of Non-Traditional Medicine.

• From 1989 to 1993 – a lecturer at the Department of Operative Surgery with Topographic Anatomy at S.M. Kirov Military Medical Academy (St. Petersburg).
• From 1994 to 1999 – an Associate Professor of the Department of Military Surgery at Ukrainian Military Medical Academy (Kiev).
• From 1994 to 2001 – director of the city center for plastic microsurgery and hand surgery of Kyiv city clinical hospital №3.
• From 2001 to the present – director of the private clinic “Kyiv City Center for Plastic Microsurgery and Aesthetic Medicine”.
• From September 1, 2007, to the present – a professor at the Department of Combustiology and Plastic Surgery at P.L.Shupik National Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education. (Kiev).