About Us

Dr. Paul Wigoda is a Fort Lauderdale Plastic Surgeon and board certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery. He was named the best plastic surgeon in South Florida in 2010. Dr. Wigoda’s Fort Lauderdale-based private plastic surgery practices offers cosmetic and reconstructive surgery as well as non-surgical services including Botox and fillers. He was Chief of Plastic Surgery at Broward Health Medical Center from 2011-2017, the primary trauma center for Fort Lauderdale and Broward County. He brings his patients impeccable surgical techniques, an artist’s aesthetic vision, and is an advocate for patient safety and plastic surgery standards. Dr. Wigoda offers a wide range of cosmetic surgery procedures to enhance and refine the face, breasts and body. He performs leading-edge techniques that achieve exceptional cosmetic results, including Power Assisted Liposuction, Brazilian Butt lifts, Painless breast augmentation and facelifts. He also pioneered the Painless Breast Implant technique, which virtually eliminates pain and is designed to result in a quick, safe and painless recovery. Dr. Wigoda graduated cum laude from Ransom-Everglades High School in Miami, Florida. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree with high honors (magna cum laude) from Amherst College in Amherst MA, the top liberal arts college in the nation, where he majored in neuroscience. Beginning in 1989 he attended the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas at the Texas Medical Center, the world’s largest medical center. He was granted a doctor of medicine degree in May 1993. Dr. Wigoda was selected from over 100 applicants from around the nation to the single position available at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Plastic Surgery residency, the top plastic surgery training program in the country.

Dr. Wigoda served as a surgery intern and resident at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. He trained in general surgery and trauma surgery at the world-renowned Parkland Memorial Hospital. Dr. Wigoda then began his training in plastic and reconstructive surgery, working both at Parkland Memorial Hospital and at numerous private hospitals around Dallas. Dr. Wigoda had the luxury of training with many of today’s pre-eminent cosmetic and reconstructive surgeons. As a plastic surgery resident, Dr. Wigoda scored in the top five percent in the nation on the national in-service exam which tests plastic surgery knowledge. As a chief resident, because of his skill and success, Dr. Wigoda was given the prestigious honor by his professors of serving as chief resident of Parkland Memorial Hospital first among his colleagues. Because many of the national cosmetic surgery courses for plastic surgeons are given in Dallas by his professors, Dr. Wigoda was able to attend multiple courses on all the latest techniques and technologies in cosmetic surgery including endoscopic surgery, ultrasound assisted liposuction, laser resurfacing, deep plane facelifts, midface lifts, open rhinoplasty, etc. He had the opportunity in his training to learn and use these techniques. He completed his plastic surgery training in 1998. Dr. Wigoda continued his education and training at the University of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City, one of the nation’s top hospitals. He completed a one-year fellowship in hand surgery and microsurgery, working with both the Department of Orthopedics and the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive surgery.

Dr. Wigoda is certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery.