Dr. Teitelbaum has an international reputation for breast augmentation surgery. He is up to date with the very latest developments in breast augmentation surgery and implant technology from his extensive traveling to lecture at meetings, teaching courses, consulting to industry, and from his large clinical experience. He is also an author of articles and book chapters on the subject of breast augmentation.

He has significant experience using all of the implants now available. He was a participant in the standard silicone gel trials for over for ten years, which allowed him to use the very same silicone implants that gained FDA approval in the Fall of 2006. He has used them hundreds of times in a wide variety of clinical situations, including primary augmentation, revision of previous silicone and saline augmentation, augmentation with a breast lift, and treatment of uneven or deformed breasts.

He also has one of the largest clinical experiences in the United States with the next generation of breast implants, best known as the "gummy bear" implants. Both domestic manufacturers (Mentor and Allergan) and a Brazilian manufacturer (Silimed) each selected an elite group of surgeons to carry out their clinical trials. To generate the best data, the manufacturers hand-picked the participating doctors. It was enviable to be selected for just one of the trials, but Dr. Teitelbaum is the only plastic surgeon in California –and perhaps even in all the USA - to have participated in all three.

In one recent year, Dr. Teitelbaum lectured to surgeons about breast implants on five continents (his hopes of doing all seven continents were dashed when his Australia trip was canceled and there was no meeting scheduled in Greenland that year!) He has lectured in places as varied as Brazil, Sweden, England, Mexico Morocco, Israel, and throughout the United States.

Dr. Teitelbaum instructs the course given on breast augmentation at the annual meeting of the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, the largest aesthetic plastic surgery meeting in the world. This course has been videotaped and is sold to surgeons around the world. He is on the guest faculty at UCLA Medical School, where he is an attending surgeon at the resident's clinic and operating rooms, teaching how to evaluate breast augmentation patient and how to perform a breast augmentation.

One of the major implant manufacturers has hired Dr. Teitelbaum to develop their educational materials for other plastic surgeons. He advises them on how to describe the advantages and disadvantages of their various implants to patients and surgeons. He is therefore aware of the subtle differences between implants currently available, as well as implants that are currently under development.

Dr Teitelbaum became involved in teaching other surgeons because he has always been committed to educating himself. He visited the most respected breast surgeons around the world and learned from them. It was only after he brought what he learned from them and put it to use in his own practice and developed in his own thinking that he too became a leader. Other surgeons now visit him and seek his advice on complicated breast surgery. But he continues to learn from other surgeons –as well as his patients – and is devoted to continually improve his patients' experiences.