The face of plastic surgery is about
as different as it gets, depending on
what area of the country you're in.
So what are the desired looks these days?
Representing the West Coast is our very own Dr. Ordon.
(audience cheers and applause)
And repping the Midwest is board-certified
plastic surgeon, Dr. Stefan Szczerba.
(cheers and applause)
They're both here for some plastic surgery confessionals.
You have a confessional about a bride-to-be.
Tell us about that.
Yeah, I had a bride-to-be who came to me
about six weeks before her wedding.
And she wanted a little bit of Botox,
and a little bit of filler in her lips.
And we went ahead and did all that,
and her lips... She called me a week later
and said, "You know what? I want to go a little bit bigger,
and I want a little bit more on the right side,"
and I was like, "Okay, you know it's kind of getting
game time here.
I don't know if we really want to go ahead
and do this right now," but, I went ahead and did it,
and I added maybe half a vial,
and in my mind and in her mind,
it looked perfect.
Her dad did not agree.
And, here we are, four weeks before the wedding,
and he's like, "It's gotta come out."
So we went ahead and we dissolved
all the plumper in her lip, and,
at the end of the day, she looked great at her wedding.
But we went through everything.
We went through the treatment, we went through a touch-up,
and we went through a resolution of dissatisfaction,
all in the nick of time.
I'm betting that dad was paying for the wedding.
Dad was paying for the wedding.
'Cause he was paying for the dissolving,
too, and explain how we do that.
I think... most people don't know that
when we use hyaluronic acid, we can, in fact,
dissolve it to a certain extent.
We can dissolve it to a certain extent,
and I feel like the reality comes down to
that if you come in, and you're dissatisfied with
an area that you've had plumped,
take a little bit of hyaluronic acid,
put it in a very small TB syringe,
and then do very small aliquot injections
in the area that the patient wants resolved.
Give it time.
Take one week.
If the patient's still not happy,
add a little bit more, and take it down in pieces.
So you don't go from something that is, perhaps, overdone
to completely nothing, even though if you wanted to...
A wedding is such a big deal.
What are some things that women should not do
before a wedding?
You know, I have a very firm policy on it.
I like to see them, 'bout six weeks before
for any injection stuff.
If we are doing Botox, if we're doing fillers,
six weeks is a safe number.
You have a lot of time to play with.
Six weeks, for fillers.
Six weeks, injection and fillers,
and if you are doing more aggressive things,
like peels, I would say start at six months.
You want your skin to be prime.
Not just for this small 12 hour event of your wedding.
You want this as a lifestyle change.
You want to look good, not just for the wedding,
but for the time around the wedding, and babe you for life.
Amen to that!
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We often forget that the wedding will come and go...
You've thrown up a picture of a celebrity
here in Hollywood that has just gone overboard
with volume, and I repeatedly say that, you know,
this is not the kind of work that board-certified
plastic surgeons advocate, are doing.
These are not the kind of results we see at our meetings.
So, you wanna be really careful,
and I love what you described, that,
do it incrementally, over time, slalom...
You don't want crazy, crazy volume put in your face,
'cause it's gonna make you look different.
Andrew, look at me.
You look like you want to confess.
(audience laughs)
Confessional. Your turn.
Another patient, and she bought into
the Brazilian butt-lift trend.
And, you know, she's kind of a curvaceous girl
to begin with.
She wanted a significantly larger backside,
and they put in 2,000 ccs.
They put in a quart of fat in each buttock.
Huge!
She was being pushed by her boyfriend,
who wanted her to have that type of look,
that waist-to-hip ratio of .6, something like that,
little over-the-top Kimmy K look.
Well, she lived with it for six months, a year,
something like that, and just said,
"No, I went way way overboard with my butt."
So, first one that I did that I reversed
a Brazilian butt-lift, what did we do?
We went back in and we just removed
about 1,000 ccs from each buttock, so...
Wow.
Isn't that good product?
That is amazing.
We like to show off the fat that we suck.
It shows that we got it out nice and clean.
It doesn't always come out that well,
but we left her with more than she started with,
but definitely less.
There you go.
So that's after she was super-filled,
and that's after I reduced her to a more reasonable.
That's a nice reduction, Dr. Ordon.
