Contact An Enhanced You Cosmetic Surgery Center today to schedule a consultation with Dr. Robert Lowen.

Since 1999, Dr. Robert Lowen has been consistently named one of Silicon Valley's top physicians as reported in San Jose Magazine. Selection is based on the recommendation of his peers, and fellow nominees include other physicians trained at the top universities and hospitals nationwide.

Dr. Lowen belongs to these professional organizations:
American Society of Plastic Surgeons
American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
American Society for Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Hospital Privileges:
El Camino Hospital, Mountain View
Sequoia Hospital, Redwood City

Recent awards:
Continuing Education Award of the
American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
"Best Tummy Tuck" in Santa Clara County,
San Jose Magazine Readers’ Poll, 2008

An Enhanced You
Cosmetic Surgery Medical Group
305 South Drive, Suite 1
Mountain View, California 94040
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Cosmetic Surgeon San Jose - An Enhanced You!

Meet Robert M. Lowen, M.D.

Patients come to our cosmetic surgery center in Mountain View from all over Northern California for outstanding results. Getting it right for you with meticulous attention to detail, craftsmanship, and dedication is our sole mission.

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My philosophy has always been to give the same level of care to my patients that I would expect for my own family. This starts with concern for you as a person and awareness of the sensitive and personal nature of cosmetic surgical and non-surgical interventions on healthy people. I want you to understand thoroughly the nature of your treatments, and give you choices after explaining things in words you can understand.

I spend as much time as necessary to give you the very best results, in the operating room and in the office. This means one or more unhurried consultations and time for you to have all your questions answered. I really enjoy explaining things and having my patients participate fully in the educational process. I want to be seen as your doctor, not only your plastic/cosmetic surgeon.

This has worked well over the more than twenty years of my plastic surgery practice, building trust and long-term relationships with my patients and generating the word-of-mouth referrals that are the majority of my patients.

1. Cosmetic Surgeon San Jose - Dr Lowen's Experience:

I have been in practice for over twenty years, and practice is a continual process of learning and refining skills and knowledge. Your most important decision will be who performs your surgery. The credentials listed on this page reflect my many years of training and dedication to the art of plastic surgery and my sub-specialization in cosmetic surgery. They attest to my dedication to my profession.

2. Cosmetic Surgeon San Jose - Dr Lowen's Training:

I have six years of general surgery and plastic surgery residency and fellowships, general and plastic surgery rotations at Stanford, and formal plastic surgery residency, as well as a one-year fellowship in hand and microsurgery at the University of Colorado. This means years of 100-hour weeks with supervised, graduated operating responsibility, not a weekend or brief informal observational courses and lectures to "learn" cosmetic surgery as so many of our non-surgical colleagues have done who now hold themselves out as "cosmetic surgeons".

3. Cosmetic Surgeon San Jose - Dr Lowen's Board Certification:

I was certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery in 1991, and attained a Certificate of Added Qualifications in Surgery of the Hand in 1992. These certifications are only achieved after rigorous written and oral examinations by a board recognized as one of the core surgical specialties of the American Board of Medical Specialties. This is a real board, not a self-created, non-ABMS board such as the American Board of Cosmetic Surgery or others of its kind. Ask yourself if you want your procedures done by an internist, dermatologist, family practitioner, or former radiologist who now calls him or herself a "cosmetic surgeon" without any core training in surgery in an ABMS surgical specialty.

4. Cosmetic Surgeon San Jose - Dr Lowen's Sub-Specialization in Aesthetic Surgery:

My practice is 100 percent devoted to aesthetic surgery. I am a member of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, which has high standards of training (board certification in plastic surgery) and experience in aesthetic surgery for admittance. This society provides and requires mandatory continuing education, and along with the Educational Foundation of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, offers courses in aesthetic surgery by the national and international leaders in the field. I attend annual meetings and focused specialty courses so I can remain abreast of the latest in technology and procedural advances. I spend many hours each year in journal reading, literature review, and educational DVD courses.

5. I do revision surgery for patients who have been operated on by other surgeons:

I frequently re-do surgery for patients who have been operated on elsewhere and have gotten less than optimal results. These cases are much more challenging and difficult than doing the original surgery. These patients have already undergone one or more procedures, with their attendant expense and psychological burdens. It takes confidence and a great deal of technical skill to unwind these situations and provide the patient with the result they hoped for in the first place. These are some of my happiest and most-relieved patients. Revision operations include breast implant and breast lift problems, tummy tucks, and facelifts. Issues include bad scarring, poor scar placement, malposition or encapsulation of breast implants, and incomplete abdominal tightening, fat or skin removal. While there can be no guarantees with plastic surgery because of the nature of healing, it makes sense to choose a surgeon who has a higher chance of getting things right the first time, even though minor revisions are considered a normal part of plastic surgery, and every procedure has a certain revision and complication rate.

6. Cosmetic Surgeon San Jose - Dr Lowen's Attention to detail:

I have performed facelifts and finger replantations. I bring the same concentration and attention to detail to your breast surgery, ultrasonic liposuction, or tummy tuck that I have used while suturing 1 mm blood vessels and nerves under the operating microscope. This may be partly genetic as my grandfather and his five brothers were all tailors.

7. Cosmetic Surgeon San Jose - Dr Lowen's Recognition by Peers and Patients:

For years, while polls were being done, I was selected in surveys done by San Jose Magazine as the cosmetic or hand surgeon that other doctors were most likely to choose for care for themselves or their family. The "Best Doctors" section in San Jose Magazine is now all paid advertising by doctors, but in the 2008 readers' poll done by the magazine, I was selected in the category of "Best Tummy Tuck" plastic surgeon in Santa Clara County.

8. Our satisfied patients:

Our surgical patients come to us from throughout the Bay Area and the Central Valley. We have a loyal following from the Gilroy/Hollister area to as far away as Sacramento and Fresno. Some come across the Bay for BOTOX® Cosmetic and dermal fillers, as well. When patients find a doctor that provides good results for them, they are willing to travel despite the time and expense involved. I am very appreciative of the confidence my patients have shown in me.

9. Our staff:

Our staff cares about you as much as I do. Our patient coordinators, Jez and Ellie have together over 16 years of specialized plastic surgery practice experience in meeting the needs of cosmetic surgery and aesthetic skin care patients. They are compassionate, kind people. Ellie is a licensed esthetician. They know skin and plastic surgery, and have the patience and ability to respond to all your questions.

10. Cosmetic Surgeon San Jose - Dr Lowen's Special Expertise in Breast Surgery:

Years ago I traveled to Dallas to study with Dr. John Tebbets, one of our specialty's most respected surgeons, learning his techniques and instrumentation for rapid-recovery breast augmentation, atraumatic technique, and as close to a bloodless procedure as possible. While national statistics for capsular contracture remain around 7 percent, for many years my incidence has been between 1 and 1.5 percent. I attribute this to treating the tissues gently, using special instrumentation for cautery dissection, knowing the anatomy intimately, detailed pre-operative planning with measurements, and using implants that are appropriately sized for each patient's anatomy. Re-operations for change of size and other issues are similarly far below the national averages.

11. Non-invasive skin care:

I personally do all the filler injections such as Restylane® and Radiesse®, as well as BOTOX® Cosmetic These procedures are not as simple as they seem. It takes a lot of attention to detail and experience to do them right without causing problems. Why go to a less qualified "medi-spa" when you can have a plastic surgeon do your procedures?

12. Laser treatments:

I have been performing cosmetic laser medicine since the early 1990s, probably as long as anyone in the Bay Area. We have the lasers and the experience to use them effectively for hair removal (two lasers, one IPL), tattoo removal (two lasers), non-ablative skin rejuvenation (three lasers), skin tightening, ablative skin resurfacing and lesion removal, skin tightening and spider vein removal. This is all done in my office with either myself treating the patient or an experienced laser registered nurse or nurse practitioner performing treatments under my supervision. Contrast this with a medi-spa located in a shopping mall or a recently opened medi-spa practice by a family practitioner, internist, or ER physician with no background or formal training in the interactions of laser with skin, avoiding complications and most importantly how to treat them.

As part of my residency I spent months on the Burn Unit at Valley Medical Center, and have been working surgically with skin my entire career. Many medi-spas employ RNs to diagnose and treat patients without a physician present to examine the patient, and have physician "medical directors" who are seldom seen by the nurses and are not present to provide bona fide supervision. This is illegal under current law, and is unlikely to provide you with the best and safest care.