Dr. Raj Kanodia, MD, FACS

Dr. Raj Kanodia is a facial plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills who performs only closed rhinoplasty, with every incision inside the nose. He has performed more than 15,000 rhinoplasties, all of them primary cases, and does not take revision patients. He also performs septoplasty for breathing and offers nonsurgical facial rejuvenation, including Botox, fillers and lip enhancement.

He has been board certified in otolaryngology–head and neck surgery since 1977 and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery and the American College of Surgeons. He earned his medical degree at the University of Calcutta and completed a residency in otolaryngology, head and neck surgery and facial plastic surgery in Chicago from 1973 to 1977. In 1979 he began a fellowship in Beverly Hills under Dr. Morey Parkes and then worked as his partner for four years. He founded Kanodia MD, Incorporated at 414 North Camden Drive in 1981.

He has published on rhinoplasty, including a 1992 analysis of aesthetic deformities in revision rhinoplasty and a 2009 article on the teaching of endonasal rhinoplasty, and has lectured internationally, including as a visiting professor at the Mayo Clinic in 1992. In 1977 the Chicago Laryngological Society gave him its Francis L. Lederer and Norval H. Pierce Award for resident research.