Hello, hello, hello Facebook, I'm Dr. Myla
Bennett of Ederra Bella Plastic Surgery and
Medical Spa in Johns Creek, Georgia. Hi
Loretta, Happy New Year! Sorry y'all, I got a
little bit of a cold.
I just been getting colds off and on
all, like started in the fall. It's like
every time I get over one, I have like a
week break and then a new one comes, but
hello DwonderfulOne, Shamika Willis
Brown, hello, hello. So last week I told
you guys I was gonna start doing on
Tuesdays topics related to motherhood
since I'm a, since I'm an expectant
mother right now, but I'm gonna start
that next week. I think it's important
since we're at the beginning of the year
and this is like the most popular
plastic surgery time to make sure that
people are equipped to make the best
decisions for themselves and get the
best results if they if, if plastic
surgery is something that you're
considering, so I'm gonna do this one
first and then after that I'll start
with my mommy series on Tuesdays. Hi Dee,
hi Kimberly, Happy New Year! So umm, and
part of why I did this, like most of the
time when I do these talks, it stems from
something that I read in comments or
whatever on different posts or in
different groups and stuff and so I just
want people to be happy with their
outcomes, not regretting getting things,
in the right hands, you know all that
kind of stuff, so it's just a couple
points that I want to hit. I ask you
guys to share the video share, share,
share, spread the word so people can make
good, safe choices. So um, hi Cynthia, hi
Helena, Happy New Year, Happy New Year,
it's 2018, y'all 2017 went by so fast like, it
went by so fast. So alright, so I'm about
to get started.
So the first thing that I think is
important for you to think about before
you embark on plastic surgery is what
your motivation is in getting the
surgery because I, I find that when I
like, when I'll talk to people or see
some of the things that people write
when they're posting, I mean commenting on
different pictures or posts or whatever,
sometimes it looks, it seems like
people's motivation for why they're even
getting surgery is not the best and so
that can put you in unsafe situations. So
if you are getting the surgery because
you think it's gonna make your life better
some kind of way or it's gonna help you
get more attention or something like
that, that's not the best reason. Usually
the, in my opinion and in my experience,
the healthiest reasons for women to get
these types of procedures is to restore
themselves or you know if it's something
that you know, you didn't necess had, you
don't like, I don't think there's
anything wrong with modifying it if you
still, if you still understand that even if
you don't, you're still fabulous. Like it
shouldn't be like, okay well when I get
my nose fixed or when I get my butt
bigger or when my stomach is flat, then
I'll be blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, like
you should know that even if you don't
change a thing, you're still fabulous. If
you're feeling like your self-esteem and
your self-worth is wrapped up in an
operation, it kind of sets you up for
failure because and I tell my patients
this all the time, just because I can
do it, doesn't mean something's wrong
with you, or whatever like, I'm gonna be,
I'm gonna be fierce after this. I'm like,
you're gonna be more fierce, you're
already fierce, like it doesn't matter. I
mean if you think about it, I know when I
was younger and you see some people in
the club and it's like a girl or
something, you're like dang she ain't
even all that cute and everybody's all
up on her, it's because she was cute
inside, like she felt good about herself
and it doesn't really matter what you
look like you know and so when people
feel like their worth is wrapped up in
their outcome from surgery, that's kind
of a setup for a disaster because what
happens is,
it's actually not wrapped up in that and
so when your life really doesn't change
very much, then you start thinking that
you need more surgery and that's how
people end up in situations where
they're getting more and more and more
surgeries and they start to look you
know messed up and strange and they start
to do things to put themselves at risk
to get these operations. So your
motivation is very important and I think
a lot of times is, people aren't as
insightful into themselves as they
should be, but hopefully if you're
watching this video, I want you to just
try to do a self check about what you
are, what you plan to accomplish or what
you think is going to happen after the
surgery is all over, because if you're
not desperate for the surgery, then
you'll make better decisions. It's
nothing wrong with modifying something
that you don't like, nothing wrong with
that, but you just know that regardless
of whether you do that thing or not,
you're still awesome, you don't have to
have it. It's not gonna make you more
awesome just because you got a big butt,
no, that's not how that works, so that's
number one. Number two, this is probably
one of the most important things on this
list, make sure your surgeon is a surgeon.
So that seems really logical and like
common sense, but it's not because it
really, like that's probably one of the
things that drives me the most crazy,
gets under my skin the most and the
hardest thing for me to ignore and not
answer and not put a comment when I see
certain things, but your surgeon needs
to be a surgeon. So I want to explain a
little bit to you again about because I
explain this all the time, but I want to
do it again,
about the difference between surgeons
and non surgeons in the medical world. So
we all learn similar things in medical
school in the four years of medical
school, but doctors, medical doctors have
to do specialized training after medical
school is over for years in a
particular area and medicine is
divided into two main groups, we call it
surgery and medicine, like it's two, like
we go down two different paths after
medical school and so some of us go down
the surgical path and some of us go down
what we call the medicine path. The
medicine doctors are like your family
practitioners, dermatologists, internal
medicine doctors, cardiologists. These are
doctors who don't do surgeries, they are,
they are like, they're not surgeons,
they're not in the operating room. If
they went in the operating room, they
wouldn't know where to put their hands,
like they wouldn't, you know, they're not
surgeons. So they go down anywhere from
three years to six year track in their
specialty with no surgical training at
all and then anywhere from three to six
years after, after medical school.
Then the surgical tracks, there's lots of
them, there's plastic surgery,
neurosurgery, orthopedic surgery, general
surgery, cardiothoracic surgery, it's all
these different surgical tracks. So if, if
your, your plastic surgeon should have
gone down the plastic surgery track. They
should not have gone down, they certainly
should not have been down the medicine
track and when, if they go down the
surgical track, it should be a track that
leads them to plastic surgery. Before
they're done training, they should
already have been trained to be a
plastic surgeon. So residency and
fellowship training, one of those two
things should have trained them to be a
plastic surgeon. It shouldn't be, I took a
course or I went and trained underneath
this other doctor who taught me real
fast over the course of a week how to do,
do plastic surgery. If it takes, it
took me six years after residency,
I mean after medical school to learn
plastic surgery, so it's not really
logical to think that somebody can learn
it in a week. So at the very least, the
surgeon should be a surgeon. So if the
person is a dermatologist, a family
practitioner, you shouldn't be going to
them for your plastic surgery. That is
gonna get you in trouble
much faster.
I'm not saying that every plastic
surgeon, just because somebody's a plastic
surgeon, they won't have complications.
Every doctor gets complications, every
every, doctor, but you are less likely to
have that happen if the person was
surgically trained and specifically
plastic surgery trained. So a lot of
these crazy complications that you see,
these horrific pictures of really bad
complications, like when people's, when
people get necrosis, like, which is when
the tissue dies, like the skin and fat
just dies and they get having all these
different surgeries to try to clean up
all the dead tissue and their, their
belly's disfigured or their breast's
disfigured and all that kind of stuff,
a lot of that is issues of blood supply
and there's no other specialty that
learns the blood supply to the extent
that plastic surgeons do. Like there are
so many blood vessels in your body and
there's so many rules to making sure
that if you cut into somewhere that
you're going to end up with enough blood
supply to keep stuff alive if you remove
something or you try to move something
to a different place from where it was
before and we are the only specialty
where that really matters, like most um,
because we're cutting in the skin. So the
skin doesn't have, the skin is, you
see, it's like a big, it's the biggest
organ on our body and it's fed by blood
vessels all over the place, but if you
cut a big chunk out of it or if you cut
it out in the wrong way,
it'll make stuff die, so you have to know
the patterns of blood supply implicitly
to keep stuff alive and when you see
people with these really awful
complications, it's when people are
violating the laws of anatomy and
physiology and medicine doctors don't
learn it, we like, literally in plastic
surgery residency, blood supply was the
thing we talked about all the time, like
everything we talk, any topic we talk
about, the blood supply is first, like
that's the foundation, what's the blood
supply, what's the blood, what's the
innervation, what's it. So no other
specialty does that, that's, it's like the
foundation of plastic surgery and that's
the part that's missing for a lot of
these doctors who are trying to practice
plastic surgery winging it, like they're
missing all of the fundamental stuff
that we learned, that was,
that was ingrained in our brains for
years, like it's certain stuff that I know
that I don't even realize I know, like I
just know not to do like no I can't do
that, you know, like I don't even have to
be, I don't have to be sitting there
saying okay this is the blood vessel
cause it's just like burned, it's like
etched in my brain, like it was etched in
my mind. So you want to make sure that
the person that you are allowing to do
these types of procedures on you really
understands all the fundamentals because
that sets you up for the, for the best
chance of being complication-free
in your procedure and not ending up
being one of these bad facebook posts of,
you know in a horror story, but people
think it's like, you know they'll say,
I'll see the posts and they'll be, people be like, oh
I'm looking for a surgeon in Atlanta and
then it'll be, folks will start
listing names of people and some of the
names that pop up most consistently are
not surgeons. One of the people is, one
of the people in particular, I'm not
naming no names, is a dermatologist and I
know for a fact that she has jacked people
up because they've ended up in my office
trying to get fixed. So sometimes they
get it right by mistake and that's the,
that's the dangerous part when they get
it right by mistake because those people
be like, oh she did a great job on me and,
but they don't know about the bad, all
the bad jobs that are floating around
and they don't realize that she could
did a good job on that person by
accident, it's like Russian roulette...
