Someone got paralyzed getting a Brazilian
butt lift, nobody can even see your butt if
you're stuck in a wheelchair, like that is
ridiculous and then they want to talk about
how the doctor flew their family in, and put
them in a mansion, and took good care of them
but you're paralyzed, they're doing that because
they know they just jacked you up, they're
guilty.
They're hoping you don't sue them or something
I don't know, that's not normal, you shouldn't
be getting paralyzed from a Brazilian butt
lift, but you know why that happened probably
because the doctor was trying to put it in
the deep layer, so that the fat will live
and they went so deep that they hit your sciatic
nerve, which is the main nerve going down
your leg, it comes out of your butt, it exits
from your butt muscles into your leg and so
they probably drove their lipo cannula into
the sciatic nerve and messed it up and so
now the girl can't walk, ridiculous.
But that's because they're trying to shove
liters and liters of fat into a butt cheek,
and then they heard somebody say oh put it
in multiple planes and so they went so deep
that they made the child, I'm not here to
bash doctors not on this one anyway.
You shouldn't be going to any doctor that
has multiple pictures floating around of people
that are disfigured, it doesn't matter like
you shouldn't go to those people and the doctor
who that was is a popular one, so that's all I'm
going to say.
This particular Facebook live I'm not blasting
doctors; I'm just trying to teach you to think
logically when you're researching.
Okay, so this person is paralyzed but she
has a big butt, I don't even know about what
complications she may have gotten beyond the
paralysis from the Brazilian Butt Lift, but
yes it was and yes this person I think this
person is in the Dominican Republic I think
I'm not sure.
This stuff happens in the United States too
though, this is not a US vs DR or Colombia
issue, this is a plastic surgery by people
who don't have ethics issue, and plastic surgery
for people who are desperate for a body that
they saw on somebody's Instagram page whether
or not it's safe or not, that's the issue.
If you're willing to lay down and risk your
life to get a certain body, like knowing that
people have these horrific complications I'm
going to tell you some normal complications
that you can expect from any surgery, and
then I'm going to tell you the ones that are
things you should never see in a cosmetic
situation.
Bleeding is a normal complication of any operation;
every surgeon has had a bleeding complication
at some point.
Infection you can get an infection with any
surgery, but there are infections and then
there are infections okay.
What else asymmetry, because your body is
not asymmetric to start and if God couldn't
make it be exactly the same on both sides
you can't expect a human to pull that off
either, although we try our best to make things
similar on both sides, that's a reasonable
one.
Sometimes you might get little bitty small
open areas on an incision if the incision
is really long or the person's thicker or
if the person smokes, but that's why most
board certified plastic surgeons don't do
cosmetic surgery on smokers, if you smoke
I'm not cutting you, so that helps me keep
that complication from happening.
Complications that are unacceptable, especially
on a regular basis, necrosis you shouldn't
be getting any, nothing should be dead after
you get a cosmetic procedure, nothing.
The only times that I've had necrosis on patients
that I've worked on is when I was doing reconstruction
and so there's times in reconstruction where
you have to do the surgery whether the person
is healthy or not, and so those are the people
who have diabetes, cardiovascular disease,
they smoke and then you have to do this big
operation, then those are the people who you
tend to get things like necrosis and stuff
like that.
Not in a healthy 20-something, 30-something,
40-something year old female with no medical
problems who goes into surgery totally normal
should not be having dead tissue anywhere,
when a person gets dead tissue most, nine times
out of ten in a cosmetic setting, like if
you're dealing with liposuction and tummy
tucks, because the doctor knocked out blood
supply, knocked out too much blood supply
to a particular area and that makes the tissue
die.
Well real plastic surgeons we know where all
these blood vessels are, we know where we
can go and where we shouldn't go in one setting
to keep the tissue alive.
So when you're dealing with people who haven't
learned the foundation, the basic principles
of safe plastic surgery they have no clue.
So then sometimes they get lucky and they
do these certain combination of procedures
and they're okay and then they'll do it on
another couple of people and all of them people
might get necrosis, so that's something that
you shouldn't be seeing on a regular basis
from any doctor who does cosmetic surgery.
I'm not saying never, you'll never hear me
say never or always but most often you shouldn't
be dealing with necrosis in a cosmetic procedure,
this is when people are being way too aggressive
or they're doing way too many surgeries in
one area at one time.
If it's a lot of things you need done you
have to be prepared to get more than one surgery
or if it's a lipo thing more than one round,
this is why doctors have BMI cut-offs.
So the person that I helped yesterday she
had flown to the Dominican Republic with plans
of getting her surgery the next day, she's
supposed to get it the day after she got there.
When she went to meet the doctor, the doctor
said no you're too heavy and she left,
and then somebody else in Dominican Republic,
somebody from some consulting group vultures,
people who were preying on the folks who got
ejected from that practice said, oh I have
a doctor who specializes in bigger women,
she said she thought it was a sign from God
that she was supposed to go to the surgery,
but I thought maybe it was the serpent in
the Garden of Eden, it was the Satan waiting
for the people who got rejected from that
office telling them that they can come over
to this other office and then she got hurt,
she got hurt.
She was taken advantage of, she was vulnerable
they know if somebody has flown all the way
from another country to get plastic surgery
they've flown all the way from another country
to get plastic surgery and then they get rejected
as soon as they get there that they are vulnerable,
they want their surgery.
They just flew all the way from another country,
took off weeks of work, plan to be there all
of this stuff and then somebody says no you
can't have it, so then when the person who
walks by and says hey, I'll do your surgery,
I got a doctor who specializes in bigger women
after somebody just told her she was too big
and now she's hurt, like it's ridiculous.
My question to the women is like who are you
doing it for, like what is so important that
you're going to risk your life for it, like
I don't understand it.
I'm not anti-plastic surgery, obviously I'm
a plastic surgeon I'm not anti-plastic surgery
at all, but I am anti-plastic surgery in people
who aren't in the right mental state to receive
it, I am anti unethical plastic surgery, I'm
anti doctors who don't care about hurting
people, I think people shouldn't be doing
things that they aren't trained in.
So I had a conversation with the lady on Thursday
and she had gotten liposuction from a dermatologist
in Atlanta, and she was a person who knowingly
got surgery from a non-surgeon.
See people think liposuction, oh it's just a
little lipo, I'm going to put it into perspective
for you, if I were going to have surgery by
a non-surgeon, I would want them to actually
cut me open and let me tell you why.
When we do liposuction it's a blind operation,
the incisions are little and then this cannula
is going through all these tissues that you
can't see because you're working through this
little bitty baby incision.
So the surgeon is working based on their knowledge
of the anatomy and by feel, so if I'm going
to have somebody who doesn't have a thorough
knowledge of the anatomy because they haven't
done surgery on it, I want them to be able
to see, doesn't that make more sense?
People think since the incisions in liposuction
is small that it's not a big deal, but that's
why when people die from liposuction usually
what has happened most of the deaths that
I've heard of from liposuction are from liver
lacerations, they might perforate the person's
diaphragm, they might hit their spleen and
the reason they did that is because they have
no respect for the anatomy because they haven't
been cutting any, they probably haven't seen
a liver or spleen since the cadaver lab when
they were like 24, they probably haven't even
seen it because if you're not a surgeon you
don't see that stuff.
Just because somebody is a doctor doesn't
mean they have the skill set required to operate
on you, so if I was going to have a person
who's not a surgeon do a surgery on me, cut
me open so that they can see oh wait a minute
that's her liver let me not touch it, oh wait
there's her spleen let me not hit that, but
if you have a big long wand with a hole on
the end of it and you're ramming it in and
out through this little hole that you can't
see, so basically you're blindly stabbing
at stuff and you have no respect for the
anatomy, that is a recipe for disaster, that's
what keeps happening to people, you can't
do that.
I just want people to be more respectful of
the fact that it's surgery, it's your body,
you only have one of them and it's not worth
dying for, and for the person who says well
U.S. doctors don't make as good of bodies
as the people in the Dominican Republic, then
my argument is if you can't work Colombia
or Brazil or wherever else they're going,
just make sure it's a real plastic surgeon
in those countries and make sure they don't
have a rate of death and disfigurement that
is comparable to their success rate.
Like you don't want it to be like oh well
I know all these girls over here that got
hurt, but then these girls bodies was on point,
there's plastic surgeons in all those countries,
real ones that are good they come to our conferences
and teach us stuff find those, don't go to
all of these people.
If you keep seeing pictures of dead tissue
and dead women from a doctor who can do a
sweet Brazilian butt lift and make you a really
small waist that's not worth it, go to somebody
else in that country if you just want to go
over there that's cool, you got a right to
do that just be safe about it, just be safe
that's it, nobody should be dying for a butt.
And the reason why I even care, because like
I said at the beginning of this video I'm
not looking for Brazilian butt-lift clients,
I don't really like how those look, so I'm
not going to make that, I'm not going to make
that little bitty waist and those big hips
and the big butt because I don't like how
it looks.
So I'm not saying this to get you to come
to me, I'm saying this because the people
who are being hurt the most are minority women
who have less money, which is me before I
became a plastic surgeon, a minority woman.
My mom is a hair stylist, my father was a
crackhead, I grew up on the east side of Cleveland.
They're preying on people like me and I feel
like these doctors they don't care about you,
they don't care, they're preying on you, they're
excited that in three weeks you're going to
have your tax return.
