Persian-speaking Plastic surgeons

Persian-speaking plastic surgeons in Germany, for reconstruction after an accident or an illness as much as for cosmetic work. This page is written on one assumption: few areas of medicine sell you as much as this one. So there is nothing here about techniques or results, only what to check before you sign and when to stand up and leave.

In an emergency, or if there is a risk to life, call 112. Outside surgery hours the medical on-call service answers on 116 117, and it can also help you find an appointment. This page is only a directory and is not an emergency service.

What the Verified badge does and does not say

Verified says one thing only: a real person stands behind this profile and manages it themselves. YabInfy does not check anyone's certificates, licences, experience or competence, and the badge is not for sale. The specialist title is something you can check yourself: the register of doctors and their specialist titles is kept by the regional medical chamber (Landesärztekammer), and you are entitled to ask it.

The title is the first thing to check

In Germany, "specialist in plastic and aesthetic surgery" is a protected title: Facharzt für Plastische und Ästhetische Chirurgie. Holding it means several years of defined specialist training after medical school, ending in an examination before the medical chamber, the same body that sets what the training contains.

Advertising cosmetic treatment is not reserved for the people who hold it. A doctor with a different specialty, or one who took a short course, may legally offer cosmetic procedures, and "cosmetic surgeon" or "aesthetic specialist" are marketing phrases rather than protected titles. The licence to practise medicine at all (Approbation) is a separate thing again: it permits medicine, it does not certify a specialty.

So ask plainly at the first appointment which specialist title you hold, since when, and with which chamber you are registered, then ask the chamber the same question. Some of this work sits with other specialties holding protected titles of their own, among them Dermatologists. The point is to know which title.

Reconstructive or cosmetic decides who pays

This is where the money line runs. Reconstruction after an accident, a burn, cancer surgery or a congenital difference may be covered, provided your insurer approves it before the operation. Cosmetic work is your own money.

The application for cost approval goes in before surgery, never after it: an operation performed first and invoiced afterwards is almost never reimbursed. It usually needs a medical report and a written justification, and the insurer may pass the file to its own medical service for assessment. Coverage is the insurer's decision and not the surgeon's, so no practice can promise it. Get it in writing, and do not book a date before it arrives.

One detail is useless to learn afterwards: German social insurance law (SGB V) lets an insurer ask you to contribute towards treating complications of a cosmetic operation with no medical necessity, and limit sick pay. Ask your insurer before you decide.

Get the total price in writing, itemised

A spoken price is not a price. Ask for a written estimate, itemised, listing separately the surgeon's fee, the anaesthetist, the theatre and clinic, an overnight stay, materials and implants, every follow-up appointment, and what a corrective operation costs and who pays for it.

In self-pay medicine the bill follows the physicians' fee schedule (GOÄ) and may carry a multiplier, so ask which one and why, whether the estimate is binding, and whether value added tax is included.

Who operates, where, and who answers at night

The person sitting opposite you at the consultation is not always the person who operates. Ask by name who performs the surgery, whether you will be told if that changes, and where it happens: the practice or a clinic, under which anaesthetic, and given by whom. Then ask the question people forget until they need it: if there is bleeding, a fever or severe pain the night after surgery, what number do you call, and does a named person answer or a call centre?

If the result is not what was agreed

Ask this before the operation. If the result falls short of what we agreed, is a correction included, for how long, at whose cost, and who decides it is warranted? Get the answer in writing, because a spoken "don't worry, we will fix it" carries no weight in the argument that follows. Under German medical law a doctor generally owes proper treatment, not a guaranteed outcome, so any sentence guaranteeing a result is advertising rather than an undertaking. If a dispute arises, the route runs through the practice in writing, then the state medical chamber's expert and arbitration body, and for the legal route see Lawyers. Time limits apply, so ask early and keep the paperwork.

Never decide at the first appointment

For elective surgery, the explanation has to come far enough ahead that you have room to think it over, and how much room is decided by the law and the courts, not the theatre schedule. Other signals worth walking out over:

• A price valid "only today", or a discount tied to signing now. That is sales pressure, not a saving.
• A quote given over a messaging app from a few photographs, with no examination in person.
• A package abroad where nobody is responsible for follow-up once you are home. Ask in writing, before you buy, who treats you in Germany if something goes wrong a week after you land, and at whose cost.

Photographs and expectations

Ask for before-and-after photographs, but of this surgeon's own work in cases resembling yours, not catalogue images. Ask what the realistic limit is in your case, what will not change, and what they would advise you against and why: that last answer tells you more than any brochure. German advertising law restricts the public display of such images for cosmetic operations, so a website carrying none is not thereby a worse practice.

What to ask when you call

• What your specialist title is, and which chamber you are registered with.
• Whether my case counts as reconstruction or as cosmetic, and who prepares the approval application.
• Whether the written estimate is itemised, how long it stands, and how many follow-ups it covers.
• Who speaks Persian: the surgeon, or somebody on reception. The difference matters here, because what is at stake is a consent form.
• YabInfy checks none of this, so ask for it yourself, and ask to see the document where it matters.

Choosing from this list

This category has no sub-divisions, so the filters cannot tell you who mostly does reconstruction and who mostly does cosmetic work: asking is the only way, and it does half of the choosing for you. A first consultation can survive a train journey, but the examination, the operation and the follow-ups are in person, and being nearby matters most when things have not gone to plan. The city list is at the foot of the page.

Reviews here speak to what a patient can judge: how frank the consultation was, whether the final bill matched the estimate, whether anyone picked up the phone. None is a verdict on surgical skill or on whether a result was medically right. A profile without the Verified badge is not a worse business either: nobody has claimed the page yet. On privacy, both halves are true. YabInfy never shows who opened a page or whose contact details somebody looked at, while a review you write is public, under a name you choose.

For other medical fields, see Doctors, and if the decision is weighing on you, Mental health has a list of its own. More on how this site works is in the FAQ, and if you run a practice, add your business.