- [Dr. Tobias] How are you doing?
- [Woman] Good, how are you?
- All right.
What you want to do for
people is make them happy.
Make them feel good about themselves.
My name is Dr. Geoff Tobias.
I'm a facial plastic surgeon.
I work out of Englewood Health.
And I happen to be an expert
in the field of closed rhinoplasty.
This technique involves much
more conservative changes,
you wind up with more
natural, faster results.
And avoiding the unnecessary scar
that you may see here.
This young lady was a
model and an actress.
What we did is simply
balance everything out.
Shrunk the size of the tip.
Thinned out the bridge a little bit.
Again, keeping it very natural.
And that nose fit her face like a glove.
This gentleman had a injury to his nose.
The bridge was pushed
slightly to his left.
So, we straightened out the bridge,
took down his profile,
and refined the tip of the nose
in a way that it doesn't even look like
he had any surgery done.
This next patient, her big
concern was when she smiled.
The bump on the bridge seemed to grow.
So, she hated to take pictures of herself.
We lowered the profile,
straightened the profile,
and lifted the tip so
that it looked natural,
but it wasn't pinched.
She was totally at home with the result.
Woo!
My favorite things to do are skiing,
because you feel the wind in your face,
and gravity takes you down the mountains.
And it's a thrill.
I teach other doctors the
newest cutting edge techniques
in facial plastic surgery.
In order for me to teach
this around the world,
when I lecture, I bring one
of these models with me.
I actually created this model.
The sculpture, I had it sculpted
so that it depicts the
techniques that I use
in the closed rhinoplasty.
We work in through the nostrils,
and we change the shape
of these cartilages
from the inside out.
The thing that I love the most
is to see the happiness, the
smile on a patient's face,
and hear what they have to say.
I have to tell you, at times,
I've actually been
brought to tears myself.
(happy music)
