The state and federal governments and medical boards make or enforce laws that are of great significance to patient safety.
Dr. Teitelbaum has been a stalwart of lobbying in his state legislature, Congress, and the FDA for the benefit of plastic surgery patients. These activities have included:
- Encouraging Congress to pass the "Children with Deformities Act" which would mandate insurance companies provide coverage for children with birth defects;
- Requiring dental insurance plans to cover orthodontic treatment for the terrible dental problems in children with cleft lips and palates;
- Requiring direct physician oversight of medi-spas treating patients with lasers;
- Mandating doctors disclose their education and board certification;
- Limiting doctors who hold board certification in "bogus" boards—boards that do not require proper education and training—from advertising to the public that they are actually "board certified;"
- Protecting patients from dentists wishing to perform cosmetic surgery;
- Testifying in front of the FDA to allow patients a wider choice of better breast implants.
More on the FDA-approval of silicone breast implants
- Plastic Surgery Practice, June 2013: Online Exclusive: Steven Teitelbaum, MD, on the US Breast Implant Market
- Blog post by Dr. Teitelbaum on HUFFPOST STYLE, April 2012: A New Breast Implant for Women
- New York Times, May 2007: Implants Are Back, and So Is Debate
- Los Angeles Times, November 2006: Silicone implant makers, doctors expect a sales lift
Dr. Steven Teitelbaum addresses the FDA Silicone Breast Implants Panel
Dr. Steven Teitelbaum advocating for patient rights
As president of the California Society of Plastic Surgeons I advocated legislation that would protect patients from unqualified doctors, require insurance coverage of birth defects, and mandate accredited operating rooms. Here I am posing in front of the governor's office with the California state animal, the grizzly bear. Does anyone find it odd that our state animal is extinct?
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