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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
Well Doctor Arthur Perry, he's one of the top plastic surgeons.
He's got offices in Manhattan, New Jersey. You know what,
He's been doing the show here on w R for
years and years and years. Very popular show and a
great plastic surgeon. Everybody has questions on this subject, so
he's the guy to ask.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Doctor Arthur Perry, and the public wants to know.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
The public doesn't get a damn.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
And I went to his office and I said, I said,
look at my face. He goes, yeah, look at your face.
We're going to do with your fan. What can you
do with his face?
Speaker 5 (00:36):
I go like that, I SA what I got?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I go look at this, I'm getting old. I said,
I want to maybe you could fix it up a
little bit.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
Doctor Oz, are you there, I'm here Ark, and I
want to get a plauged you. Having worked with you
on a book and numerous other activity, you want to
talk to Arthur.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Perry, the best in plastic.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
Surgery and workable knowledge, but also your grace at delivery content,
which is why it's been a blessing to have you
on my show so many times.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
When I was a resident at the University of Chicago,
we had a me.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
Just smart as I really really gift position. I want
to pay you the highest true I can give to
a surgeon, which is when people come to you, they
don't come for an operation, they come for an opinion.
And that's why I trust you with my friends and relaivis.
I didn't realize we were going to get the Michael
Jordan of Plastic Surgeons nine two and zero bows to
this guide and welcome.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
This is BORD certified plastic surgeon, doctor Arthur Perry, and
this is what's your wrinkle right here on woer And
if you're listening to the podcast, well you're listening to
straight talk about cosmetic surgery, because that's what we call
it when we podcast this show. So I'm a board
certified plastic surgeon and I've been doing this show for
twenty years answering your questions, the questions that have been
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keeping you up at night. I know you have a
lot of those. Let's say you know it's the middle
of a night, you're you go into the bathroom and
you look at yourself in the mirror and you say,
that is that a wrinkle?
Speaker 5 (01:50):
Is that?
Speaker 3 (01:50):
What is that? Did I get my very first wrinkle? Well,
you know they come when you're in your forties. Some
people are lucky and don't get wrinkles till their fifties.
If you're in your sick these you've got a lot.
And if you're seventies, you know, wow, there's a lot
of wrinkles. And we talk about wrinkles on the show
because there are so many different ways to help you
look better, you know, facelifts and lasers and fillers and
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boatox and all sorts of surgical procedures. So that's what
we talk about. We talk about body contouring also, like
things like breastlifts and breast augmentations and breast reductions and
tummy tucks and liposuction and things like that, and also
some medical issues that relate to what I do as
a plastic surgeon, things like skin cancers and mole removal
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and things like that, and unusual things like how about
restoring the beauty of your earlobe? We talk about that too.
And this is a call and show. You can give
me a call and we're giving away bottles of Nighttime.
Nighttime is one stop shopping for skincare. It is a
combination product. You know, if you go into the stores
and we won't mention the stores which ones, but you
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know you won't walk out without a bag of things.
Because companies tend to fragment their skincare. They want you
to buy lots and lots of different products. So they'll
put one ingredient, one active ingredient in one like vitamin C,
and one active ingredient in another, likelycolic acid, and maybe
another one with vitamin A, and they make this big
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regiment for you, and the one that you can never
stay on the eight steps in the morning and six
steps in the evening. No one will do it. But
you'll buy the products. You'll make the companies happy. But
what you really want to do is stay on skincare
long enough to see the effects. Because it's asking an
awful lot to slow down the aging process, asking an
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awful lot of your body, and it's asking a tremendous
amount to stop the aging process in your skin. Just
think about it next time you look at these products
that give you your guarantees to look so much better. By
midnight or next week or three weeks. Remember what I'm
telling you. It takes a tremendous amount to reverse the
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effects of aging. I mean an awful lot, because your
body is programmed to age. Your body is programmed, unfortunately
to die. You know you will and everybody will. We're
all going to get older, We're all going to wrinkle
and start deteriorating. So when I tell you that there's
some skincare that can actually help, well, you know that's amazing,
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and it really is when you think about it. But
there is. But it's not going to happen in a week.
It's not going to happen in even a month unless
you've got some scientific instruments that can look and document things.
But really, I always say the real test is the
mirror test, when you look in the mirror and say, yeah, yeah,
I look better, and that takes about three months with
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good skincare. Despite all that you've heard, despite everything the
companies want you to think, it's just not going to
do anything. The only things that can make you look
better are swellers, which are you know, immediate swellers. They're
not good for you in the long term because they
cause a swelling, and then this swelling goes away, and
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then it swells again when you put the material on
your skin again, and that actually causes more aging in
the long run. So you don't want that. So real
skincare not so sexy. Things like vitamin C, vitamin A,
fruit acids, antioxidants, skin brighteners, things like that. I put
it all in nighttime. That's what we're giving away to callers.
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Give me a call eight hundred three two one zero
seven ten. That's the phone number at wo R eight
hundred three two one zero seven ten. Give me a
call and ask me those questions that have been keeping
you up at night. So today we're going to talk
about about you know, have you heard of Clear and Brilliant?
You know, they've got a wonderful marketing program. It's it's
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a laser that so many people are now doing. You know,
young people in their twenties and thirties and forties and
older people also. You know what's what it's old In
my practice, sixty is the pediatric population, you know, because
I do a lot of facial rejuvenation and I do facelifts,
yes on people in their forties, but I also do
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facelifts on women in their eighties, and you know, they're
not the pediatric group anymore, but certainly fifties is in
my practice. So we're going to talk about not clear
and brilliant because I don't do that. But there are
lots and lots of other procedures that are very, very similar.
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And you know, in my field, there are companies that
they hire marketers, They hire very brilliant people that spend
a lot of time and a lot of money thinking
of these great names like the vampire facelift, right, PRP,
What was the vampire facelift? It was around for years
and it just kind of did nothing until they called
it the vampire facelift. Well, I don't do that one
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either because I don't think it really does a lot
for you. And there have been cases of problems in
I think it was New Mexico and Texas. There were
of HIV transmitted by the vampire facial, you know, but
that was improper technique. It wasn't the actual procedure. It
was improper technique by the people that did it. But
in the PRP, that's one of those that was brilliantly marketed,
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even though I don't think it really does a lot.
Another one of those is well clear and brilliant. It's
a brilliant method of marketing. And when we come back
from our break, we'll talk about that. We'll talk about
the procedure that I do that is virtually identical to
clear and brilliant. But I can't call it clear and brilliant.
Maybe I can call it just brilliant. I don't know.
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I'm doctor Arthur Perry. Most of What's Your Wrinkle? Broadcasting
live by the way from the Hamptons this evening. You
know what a day. It was, a sunny summer day
in the fall here in the Hamptons. I hope you're
having a good weather day also, and of course the
UV index is still over three, so you should be
using your sunscreen all right. Now, we're going to take
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a short break. Eight hundred three two one zero seven,
and that's the phone number. We'll be back after these words.
Did you know that your skincare may be hurting you
more than helping you. I'm Board certified plastic surgeon, doctor
Arthur Perry. The foundation for looking good is clean, healthy skin.
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Every Saturday evening at six pm. You're listening to What's
Your Wrinkle with Doctor Arthur Perry.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
What's Your Wrinkle?
Speaker 3 (09:08):
And we're back on board certified classic search and doctor
Arthur Perry, host of What's Your Wrinkle right here on
wo R with Noah as my sidekick in the studio.
I'm broadcasting live from the Hamptons and we're closing in
on our twenty year anniversary. No I hope you have
the venue all planned and the refreshments and you know
for the big. Isn't WR throwing a big twenty year party?
(09:31):
I would hope, So, don't you think Noah No was
waving and said, of course, all right, eight hundred three
two one zero seven ten. That's the phone number. Hey,
I'm gonna be on Mark Simon's show this weekend. Actually, no,
it's Friday, sorry, not the weekend. He's on Monday through
Friday at ten o'clock. I'm gonna be on at eleven
forty am. Set your alarm on your on your iPhone
(09:52):
to tune in. I hope you listened to him all
the time. He's He's got the smoothest voice on radio.
He is the best interviewer. And I'm so happy. I
appear on a show a few times a year, four
or five times a year. And it'll be uh this Friday,
and Mark and I have this thing going on. I've
been teasing him about having botox live on the air,
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and a couple months ago I brought some to the
studio and he almost he almost had. So I'm gonna
do it again. I'm going to bring the boats. Let's
see if we can get marked out a little boatox
live on the air. I did that to Mike Roysen
a long time ago on Oprah and Friends radio, and
that was that was pretty good radio. Tell Mark Noah. Yeah. Anyway,
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we've got Sondra on the line. Sondra, what can I
do for you? What's your wrinkle?
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Hi, doctor Terry. I have a question, not whether to
take the vaccine or not. That's not the question. The
question is if you do get shingles, and I saw
what it looks like from my husband. It's nasty. So
let's say someone gets it and they want to get
rid of all those marks on their bodies. That something
you can do.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Hell, that's a that's a very good question. You know,
shingles basically is adult chicken pox sort of. I mean
it's the same virus. Everybody should be getting that shingrex vaccine.
You know, I'm not an expert in that, but I
personally took it and I advise my patients to take it.
You know, Shingles is a nasty condition, nasty disease. It
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can recur and it can leave scars, just like chicken pox. Yeah,
and just like chicken pox scars, I fill those with
rest a lane or one of those huronic acid fillers.
So we generally wait a long time for the scars
to kind of settle down, you know, wait at least
six months, if not a year. But if they're persistent,
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then it's very reasonable to go ahead and fill those
and try and disguise those. Remember if you have if
you've got a chicken pox scar, like so many of
our generation has chicken pox scars. The kids don't because
they've got the vaccine. Right. But just like in the
you know one hundred years ago, one hundred and fifty
years ago, everybody had smallpox scars. They did, and unless
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they took the the exposure to cowpox. Do you know
where that comes from? Sondra by the way, the uh
the uh.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
No, I don't.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Yeah, you know the skin as a smooth as a
milkmaid's right. That's because milkmaids were the only ones that
were basically immune to smallpox because they got a version,
aversion of cowpox from the cows and it protected them
from getting smallpox. So their skin was smooth. When everyone
in society, you know, one hundred, two hundred, three hundred
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years ago had you know, they either had smallpox or
we're going to get smallpox, you know, because there are
outbreaks all the time, very deadly diseased. Thankfully we don't
have it anymore. But that's the story. So uh, but
chicken pox, you know, it gives you the same type
of scarring, not as bad as smallpox, of course. Uh.
And we can use a hluronic acid filler like like
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restlane to fill those little scars. And I do that
all the time time with chicken pox scars and acne scars,
and of course wrinkles and folds and build up cheeks
and chins and all those things. So it's a good question.
No one's asked that before, but yes, I would certainly
advise you to take the Shinriks vaccine. I'm not an
expert in that, but you know it sounds like a
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very prudent thing to do to prevent a very painful disease.
So that's what I would advise you. Sondra.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Okay, thank you so much. Thank you, Doctor Perry.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
All right, and thank you, Sondra. And I'm board certified
Plastic Church doctor Arthur Perry. Their phone number here at
WOR And if you're listening to the podcast, by the way,
this is broadcast live from six to six thirty every
Saturday evening. So if you're listening on a Wednesday morning
to the podcast, We'll call in at six o'clock on
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Saturday evening like Shelley is doing. Shelly, what can I
do for you? What's your wrinkle?
Speaker 6 (13:54):
Hi, Doctor Perry. I was wondering that if a pression
like I am in my sow having trouble with my
eye makeup. It seems that my upper eyelids seems to
be grouping and preventing me from using eyeliner, and also
I think it's interfering with my vision. But is it
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possible to do a leperoplasts or any type of surgical
procedure to help that at somebody at this age.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Sure, it's not your age, Shelley. It is your medical
condition that really decides whether or not you can have
the surgeries. So if you're healthy, if you don't have
heart disease, if you don't have any severe diabetes and
things like that, then certainly the operation is a blephroplasty,
and it's designed to remove the skin of the upper eyelids,
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and we also do lower blephroplastis we remove skin of
the lower eyelids, and in addition to removing skin, in
most people, we will remove fat. Now we remove more
fat from the lower lids, and the trend in plastic
surgery is to be more conservative on the upper lids.
Where we really remove the fat is towards the nose.
Most people have this little fat pad just on the
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border of the nose and the eyelid this puff of fats,
so we'll remove that. But the trend is to remove
less fat in what's called the central part of the
upper eyelid because that tends to give you a hollowed
out appearance, but certainly it helps your appearance. And this
is one of the few procedures in cosmetic surgery that
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also does have a medical benefit, because if you have
enough extra skin of your upper eyelids, it will block
your vision eventually. It's kind of like wearing a baseball hat.
And if you wear a baseball hat and you're driving
and you're going up a hill, it's hard to see
the road up ahead of you. It's the same thing
because it kind of covers your upper visual field. In
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order to get this covered by insurance, the insurance companies
do not want to pay for these things, and legitimately
so because there's so much fraud in medicine and fraud
in plastic surgery. Unfortunately, there really is a lot of
people want to get these covered by insurance when they're
not legitimately covered. But if you truly have your upper
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visual fields blocked, you go to an independent ophthalmologist that's
an MD eye doctor, not an optometrists, but an ophthalmologist,
and you have your vision checked by that doctor. And
also he'll or she'll check the health of your eye
by measuring for glaucoma, looking at your retina and really
looking over your eye. Good because you have to have
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that done. If you're having a blood for a plastic anyway,
you check for teardrop production and things like that. So
you go to that doctor and if they can document
that your visual fields are blocked by your skin, then
it is possible but not probable, that an insurance company
would pay for your surgery. They would pay for upper
lids removal of skin, not removal of the fat, not
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operating on your lower lids. So the answer is possibly yes.
Speaker 6 (16:57):
Shelley, Okay, Really it's up to the optimologist and is
it possible that this can be done with a local
so that if there is maybe a little diabetes or
a little cardiobiuscular history, like you know, not too bad,
but I mean it can be done under a local.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Yeah, it's local anesthesia with a little bit of sedation.
And so this is considered a fairly minor procedure. Although
you know, my chief at the University of Chicago used
to say, there's no such thing as minor surgery, just
minor surgeons, because any procedure that we do can upset
the apple cart. But if you are cleared by your cardiologist,
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if you've had a stress test and everything's okay, it
is a procedure that's done under local anesthesia with just
a little bit of anesthetic. I mean, it's a small
body surface area that's operated on. Right, The eyelids are
only a couple of square inches compared to other procedures,
like if you were to have a tummy tuck. That's
a big procedure that cosmetic plastic surgeons do. Iselid procedures
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are they're very delicate procedures, but they are not that
much of an insult to your body. So it is
possible that you could have that done. You know, go
to the cardiologist first, ask the opinion, and then make
your appointment. With the plastic surgeon. All right, Rachelle, Rochelle
or whatever your name is.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
Okay, Well, thank you so much, doctor Perry. I really
appreciate it, and that's really good. I'm glad it's nice
weather out there today, so thanks again, and I enjoy
listening to your show.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Well, thank you very much for listening. All right on
board certified plastic surgeon, doctor Arthur Berry, host of What's
Your Wrinkle? Right here on wo R. We're gonna take
a short break. We'll be back with our flashback procedure,
my answer to the clear and brilliant procedure.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
We'll be right back.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
They say that sixty is the new fifty, but while
you may feel and act fifty, the mirror doesn't lie.
But that's where plastic surgery comes in. I'm board certified
plastic surgeon, doctor Arthur Perry, and I love helping patients
look younger and better. If you've got sagging cheeks, jowls,
and that dreaded turkey gobbler, it might be time for
a little nip and a tuck. You look more rested
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and yes, younger with my short scar facelift and the
artistic injection of wrinkle filler or a laser peel. Well,
that might be just what it takes to get you
looking as good as you feel. Let's sit down for
an hour consultation in my new Park Avenue office. Together,
we'll come up with a plan to help you look
your best. Give me a call at eight three three
Perry MD. That's a three three p e r R
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Y M D. Check me out on the web at
periplastic surgery dot com. And don't forget to listen to
me doctor Arthur Perry every Saturday evening at six pm
right here on wo R. You're listening to What's your
Wrinkle with Doctor Arthur Perry.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
What's your wrinkle?
Speaker 3 (19:51):
What is your wrinkle? You know, everybody's got them. They've
got wrinkles in their faces. As you get older, you've
got wrinkles in your body. And you know, I have
so many patients that come in and they've got lots
and lots of wrinkles on their face. And then I
have the twenty year olds that are coming in now,
the twenty year olds that maybe they've got maybe a
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little bit of a wrinkle. They're not sure, but they're
worried that they're going to get wrinkles, and we're in
the era of prevention in medicine and in plastic surgery,
and so there are devices that have come out which
are designed to keep you looking good as long as
you can and keep your skin as robust as possible,
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keep the collagen from deteriorating, because what happens as we age,
Our skin actually thickens. From age zero birth to twenty
years old, it thickens, it gets healthier, thicker, looks the
best at twenty and it kind of holds its own
between twenty and thirty, depending on how you live. If
you live a hard life and smoke and take drugs
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and drink a lot of alcohol, well, then your skin
is going to age prematurely. And of course if you
get excessive sun exposure, it's going to age prematurely. But
the average person that does not do those things will
maintain their skin quality until they're about thirty, and then
inevitably things are going downhill at a rate of one
percent per year. Your skin will thin, your collagen will thin.
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The elastin Those are the stretchy fibers of the skin.
The collagen is the structural fibers of the skin. It's
what holds you together. So haluronic acid, that's the chemical
that we inject, but it's in your skin normally, and
it keeps your skin nice and moist because it's called
a eumectant. It's a chemical that actually absorbs water. And
when you have high amounts of haluronic acid and your skin,
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your skin looks young and dewey, as they say, right,
So as you get older, these things begin to deteriorate.
We're in a downhill course. It's so much fun talking
about aging, right, but we all do. And my job
as a plastic surgeon is to help you look as
good as possible as you go through the changes and
ages of a life. So one of the things that
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we do is botox, right, and we will do now
preventive botox, not just botox to help those wrinkles that
you have, but botox to prevent the development of the
wrinkles that you're going to get. So if you're someone
that scowls at someone and gets those eleven lines when
you scal, eventually you're gonna have those eleven lines between
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your brows even when your don't scal. But if we
botox you, and when I say botox, that's a generic term.
These days, there are six different chemicals. There are chemicals,
there are drugs. There's botox and Zeman and disport and
javou and daxifi and the new one what's a leg bo,
which is a funny name. You know, there's so many.
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Now there's six different drugs and they're all basically the same,
and so whether your plastic surgeon uses one or another,
it really doesn't make a difference to you. There's no
substantial difference, although each company tries to say that their
product is better than the other one, so Botox that
it's one of those that I'll do in young people.
And then there's lasers. Now I use the fractionated CO
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two laser. The clear and brilliant is a different wavelength
of laser, and wavelengths are like colors. You know, light
has a color, lots of colors. You know that when
you see a rainbow, that's the splitting of all the
different colors of the light. And the laser takes those
specific colors and intensifies those and then does whatever it's
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going to do, whatever we're aiming to do. So when
we're trying to go after wrinkles, we actually try and
heat up water in the skin. And there's a lot
of different wavelengths that will heat up water, and the
one that's in the fractional CO two laser, you don't
want to know the actual wavelength that would bore you
to death. But there's others. In the Clear and Brilliant,
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they actually use two different wavelengths and they also heat
up water. The way we do this, the reason we're
heating up water is we're trying to create a very
very controlled injury to the skin in and that's what
all these lasers do. It generates collagen, It removes the
upper layer of skin, so it smooths your skin, and
it shrinks the skin to a certain extent. When we
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go fairly deep, when we use the fractionated version that
I use, and I combine it with botox all the time,
we do very very light lasering, so light that you
can go back to work the very next day, so
that we're not talking about the deep lasering that I
do to really get rid of wrinkles immediately. We're talking
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about maintaining your skin and looking as good as possible.
And that is what we do with the what I
call the flash back procedure. They call it the Clear
and Brilliant procedure. I call it flashback because we're flashing
back to keep you looking like you did before before
you started aging. So that's something that I've been doing
in my office for a few years now and it's
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a very successful procedure, and I often will combine it
with botox. And yeah, we're having some specials now the fall,
and that's one of the reasons we're talking about this.
You can give the office a call two one, two, seven,
five three, eighteen twenty. And we've got these programs designed
to do multiple Now, this is a multiple procedure, multiple
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laser procedure. It's not one. We do it very lightly
so that there's minimal downtime. Now Noah tells me that
the program is just about to end, so you can
give my office a call. As I said, I've got
offices on eighty fifth in Park in New York. I'm
with Carolyn Messer, doctor Carolyn Messer on sixtieth between Park
and Lexington, and I'm also in Somerset, New Jersey. My
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website it's Perryplastic Surgery dot com. And please listen to
the podcast, subscribe to the podcast. And if you're interested
in the products that we talk about on the show,
well it's Amazon dot com, the great company that will
give you free shipping if you're a Prime member, and
you'll get the product before you can even get off
the computer. Almost all right, Noah, thanks so much for
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great engineering. We'll see everyone next week. Bye bye, Now
I have a great one.
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
Well Doctor Arthur Perry, he's one of the top plastic surgeons.
He's got offices in Manhattan, New Jersey. You know what,
He's been doing the show here on w R for
years and years and years. Very popular show and a
great plastic surgeon. Everybody has questions on this subject, so
he's the guy to ask.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Doctor Arthur Perry, and the public wants to know.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
The public doesn't get a damn.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
And I went to his office and I said, I said,
look at my face. He goes, yeah, look at your face.
We're going to do with your fan. What can you
do with his face?
Speaker 5 (00:36):
I go like that, I SA what I got?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I go look at this, I'm getting old. I said,
I want to maybe you could fix it up a
little bit.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
Doctor Oz, are you there, I'm here Ark, and I
want to get a plauged you. Having worked with you
on a book and numerous other activity, you want to
talk to Arthur.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Perry, the best in plastic.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
Surgery and workable knowledge, but also your grace at delivery content,
which is why it's been a blessing to have you
on my show so many times.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
When I was a resident at the University of Chicago,
we had a me.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
Just smart as I really really gift position. I want
to pay you the highest true I can give to
a surgeon, which is when people come to you, they
don't come for an operation, they come for an opinion.
And that's why I trust you with my friends and relaivis.
I didn't realize we were going to get the Michael
Jordan of Plastic Surgeons nine two and zero bows to
this guide and welcome.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
This is BORD certified plastic surgeon, doctor Arthur Perry, and
this is what's your wrinkle right here on woer And
if you're listening to the podcast, well you're listening to
straight talk about cosmetic surgery, because that's what we call
it when we podcast this show. So I'm a board
certified plastic surgeon and I've been doing this show for
twenty years answering your questions, the questions that have been
(01:39):
keeping you up at night. I know you have a
lot of those. Let's say you know it's the middle
of a night, you're you go into the bathroom and
you look at yourself in the mirror and you say,
that is that a wrinkle?
Speaker 5 (01:50):
Is that?
Speaker 3 (01:50):
What is that? Did I get my very first wrinkle? Well,
you know they come when you're in your forties. Some
people are lucky and don't get wrinkles till their fifties.
If you're in your sick these you've got a lot.
And if you're seventies, you know, wow, there's a lot
of wrinkles. And we talk about wrinkles on the show
because there are so many different ways to help you
look better, you know, facelifts and lasers and fillers and
(02:13):
boatox and all sorts of surgical procedures. So that's what
we talk about. We talk about body contouring also, like
things like breastlifts and breast augmentations and breast reductions and
tummy tucks and liposuction and things like that, and also
some medical issues that relate to what I do as
a plastic surgeon, things like skin cancers and mole removal
(02:37):
and things like that, and unusual things like how about
restoring the beauty of your earlobe? We talk about that too.
And this is a call and show. You can give
me a call and we're giving away bottles of Nighttime.
Nighttime is one stop shopping for skincare. It is a
combination product. You know, if you go into the stores
and we won't mention the stores which ones, but you
(03:00):
know you won't walk out without a bag of things.
Because companies tend to fragment their skincare. They want you
to buy lots and lots of different products. So they'll
put one ingredient, one active ingredient in one like vitamin C,
and one active ingredient in another, likelycolic acid, and maybe
another one with vitamin A, and they make this big
(03:22):
regiment for you, and the one that you can never
stay on the eight steps in the morning and six
steps in the evening. No one will do it. But
you'll buy the products. You'll make the companies happy. But
what you really want to do is stay on skincare
long enough to see the effects. Because it's asking an
awful lot to slow down the aging process, asking an
(03:42):
awful lot of your body, and it's asking a tremendous
amount to stop the aging process in your skin. Just
think about it next time you look at these products
that give you your guarantees to look so much better. By
midnight or next week or three weeks. Remember what I'm
telling you. It takes a tremendous amount to reverse the
(04:03):
effects of aging. I mean an awful lot, because your
body is programmed to age. Your body is programmed, unfortunately
to die. You know you will and everybody will. We're
all going to get older, We're all going to wrinkle
and start deteriorating. So when I tell you that there's
some skincare that can actually help, well, you know that's amazing,
(04:24):
and it really is when you think about it. But
there is. But it's not going to happen in a week.
It's not going to happen in even a month unless
you've got some scientific instruments that can look and document things.
But really, I always say the real test is the
mirror test, when you look in the mirror and say, yeah, yeah,
I look better, and that takes about three months with
(04:46):
good skincare. Despite all that you've heard, despite everything the
companies want you to think, it's just not going to
do anything. The only things that can make you look
better are swellers, which are you know, immediate swellers. They're
not good for you in the long term because they
cause a swelling, and then this swelling goes away, and
(05:06):
then it swells again when you put the material on
your skin again, and that actually causes more aging in
the long run. So you don't want that. So real
skincare not so sexy. Things like vitamin C, vitamin A,
fruit acids, antioxidants, skin brighteners, things like that. I put
it all in nighttime. That's what we're giving away to callers.
(05:28):
Give me a call eight hundred three two one zero
seven ten. That's the phone number at wo R eight
hundred three two one zero seven ten. Give me a
call and ask me those questions that have been keeping
you up at night. So today we're going to talk
about about you know, have you heard of Clear and Brilliant?
You know, they've got a wonderful marketing program. It's it's
(05:50):
a laser that so many people are now doing. You know,
young people in their twenties and thirties and forties and
older people also. You know what's what it's old In
my practice, sixty is the pediatric population, you know, because
I do a lot of facial rejuvenation and I do facelifts,
yes on people in their forties, but I also do
(06:11):
facelifts on women in their eighties, and you know, they're
not the pediatric group anymore, but certainly fifties is in
my practice. So we're going to talk about not clear
and brilliant because I don't do that. But there are
lots and lots of other procedures that are very, very similar.
(06:31):
And you know, in my field, there are companies that
they hire marketers, They hire very brilliant people that spend
a lot of time and a lot of money thinking
of these great names like the vampire facelift, right, PRP,
What was the vampire facelift? It was around for years
and it just kind of did nothing until they called
it the vampire facelift. Well, I don't do that one
(06:51):
either because I don't think it really does a lot
for you. And there have been cases of problems in
I think it was New Mexico and Texas. There were
of HIV transmitted by the vampire facial, you know, but
that was improper technique. It wasn't the actual procedure. It
was improper technique by the people that did it. But
in the PRP, that's one of those that was brilliantly marketed,
(07:15):
even though I don't think it really does a lot.
Another one of those is well clear and brilliant. It's
a brilliant method of marketing. And when we come back
from our break, we'll talk about that. We'll talk about
the procedure that I do that is virtually identical to
clear and brilliant. But I can't call it clear and brilliant.
Maybe I can call it just brilliant. I don't know.
(07:36):
I'm doctor Arthur Perry. Most of What's Your Wrinkle? Broadcasting
live by the way from the Hamptons this evening. You
know what a day. It was, a sunny summer day
in the fall here in the Hamptons. I hope you're
having a good weather day also, and of course the
UV index is still over three, so you should be
using your sunscreen all right. Now, we're going to take
(07:57):
a short break. Eight hundred three two one zero seven,
and that's the phone number. We'll be back after these words.
Did you know that your skincare may be hurting you
more than helping you. I'm Board certified plastic surgeon, doctor
Arthur Perry. The foundation for looking good is clean, healthy skin.
(08:17):
So I've created a program that is so simple that
everyone can stay on it long enough to see real results.
It starts with an incredible skin cleaner called clean Time.
It's actually good for your skin. Protect your skin with
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antioxidants and skin brighteners. And if you like moisturizers, well
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Join the thousands of people whose skin is healthier. That's
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to listen to my radio show right here on wo R.
(09:01):
Every Saturday evening at six pm. You're listening to What's
Your Wrinkle with Doctor Arthur Perry.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
What's Your Wrinkle?
Speaker 3 (09:08):
And we're back on board certified classic search and doctor
Arthur Perry, host of What's Your Wrinkle right here on
wo R with Noah as my sidekick in the studio.
I'm broadcasting live from the Hamptons and we're closing in
on our twenty year anniversary. No I hope you have
the venue all planned and the refreshments and you know
for the big. Isn't WR throwing a big twenty year party?
(09:31):
I would hope, So, don't you think Noah No was
waving and said, of course, all right, eight hundred three
two one zero seven ten. That's the phone number. Hey,
I'm gonna be on Mark Simon's show this weekend. Actually, no,
it's Friday, sorry, not the weekend. He's on Monday through
Friday at ten o'clock. I'm gonna be on at eleven
forty am. Set your alarm on your on your iPhone
(09:52):
to tune in. I hope you listened to him all
the time. He's He's got the smoothest voice on radio.
He is the best interviewer. And I'm so happy. I
appear on a show a few times a year, four
or five times a year. And it'll be uh this Friday,
and Mark and I have this thing going on. I've
been teasing him about having botox live on the air,
(10:14):
and a couple months ago I brought some to the
studio and he almost he almost had. So I'm gonna
do it again. I'm going to bring the boats. Let's
see if we can get marked out a little boatox
live on the air. I did that to Mike Roysen
a long time ago on Oprah and Friends radio, and
that was that was pretty good radio. Tell Mark Noah. Yeah. Anyway,
(10:36):
we've got Sondra on the line. Sondra, what can I
do for you? What's your wrinkle?
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Hi, doctor Terry. I have a question, not whether to
take the vaccine or not. That's not the question. The
question is if you do get shingles, and I saw
what it looks like from my husband. It's nasty. So
let's say someone gets it and they want to get
rid of all those marks on their bodies. That something
you can do.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Hell, that's a that's a very good question. You know,
shingles basically is adult chicken pox sort of. I mean
it's the same virus. Everybody should be getting that shingrex vaccine.
You know, I'm not an expert in that, but I
personally took it and I advise my patients to take it.
You know, Shingles is a nasty condition, nasty disease. It
(11:20):
can recur and it can leave scars, just like chicken pox. Yeah,
and just like chicken pox scars, I fill those with
rest a lane or one of those huronic acid fillers.
So we generally wait a long time for the scars
to kind of settle down, you know, wait at least
six months, if not a year. But if they're persistent,
(11:42):
then it's very reasonable to go ahead and fill those
and try and disguise those. Remember if you have if
you've got a chicken pox scar, like so many of
our generation has chicken pox scars. The kids don't because
they've got the vaccine. Right. But just like in the
you know one hundred years ago, one hundred and fifty
years ago, everybody had smallpox scars. They did, and unless
(12:03):
they took the the exposure to cowpox. Do you know
where that comes from? Sondra by the way, the uh
the uh.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
No, I don't.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Yeah, you know the skin as a smooth as a
milkmaid's right. That's because milkmaids were the only ones that
were basically immune to smallpox because they got a version,
aversion of cowpox from the cows and it protected them
from getting smallpox. So their skin was smooth. When everyone
in society, you know, one hundred, two hundred, three hundred
(12:32):
years ago had you know, they either had smallpox or
we're going to get smallpox, you know, because there are
outbreaks all the time, very deadly diseased. Thankfully we don't
have it anymore. But that's the story. So uh, but
chicken pox, you know, it gives you the same type
of scarring, not as bad as smallpox, of course. Uh.
And we can use a hluronic acid filler like like
(12:56):
restlane to fill those little scars. And I do that
all the time time with chicken pox scars and acne scars,
and of course wrinkles and folds and build up cheeks
and chins and all those things. So it's a good question.
No one's asked that before, but yes, I would certainly
advise you to take the Shinriks vaccine. I'm not an
expert in that, but you know it sounds like a
(13:17):
very prudent thing to do to prevent a very painful disease.
So that's what I would advise you. Sondra.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Okay, thank you so much. Thank you, Doctor Perry.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
All right, and thank you, Sondra. And I'm board certified
Plastic Church doctor Arthur Perry. Their phone number here at
WOR And if you're listening to the podcast, by the way,
this is broadcast live from six to six thirty every
Saturday evening. So if you're listening on a Wednesday morning
to the podcast, We'll call in at six o'clock on
(13:49):
Saturday evening like Shelley is doing. Shelly, what can I
do for you? What's your wrinkle?
Speaker 6 (13:54):
Hi, Doctor Perry. I was wondering that if a pression
like I am in my sow having trouble with my
eye makeup. It seems that my upper eyelids seems to
be grouping and preventing me from using eyeliner, and also
I think it's interfering with my vision. But is it
(14:14):
possible to do a leperoplasts or any type of surgical
procedure to help that at somebody at this age.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Sure, it's not your age, Shelley. It is your medical
condition that really decides whether or not you can have
the surgeries. So if you're healthy, if you don't have
heart disease, if you don't have any severe diabetes and
things like that, then certainly the operation is a blephroplasty,
and it's designed to remove the skin of the upper eyelids,
(14:46):
and we also do lower blephroplastis we remove skin of
the lower eyelids, and in addition to removing skin, in
most people, we will remove fat. Now we remove more
fat from the lower lids, and the trend in plastic
surgery is to be more conservative on the upper lids.
Where we really remove the fat is towards the nose.
Most people have this little fat pad just on the
(15:09):
border of the nose and the eyelid this puff of fats,
so we'll remove that. But the trend is to remove
less fat in what's called the central part of the
upper eyelid because that tends to give you a hollowed
out appearance, but certainly it helps your appearance. And this
is one of the few procedures in cosmetic surgery that
(15:29):
also does have a medical benefit, because if you have
enough extra skin of your upper eyelids, it will block
your vision eventually. It's kind of like wearing a baseball hat.
And if you wear a baseball hat and you're driving
and you're going up a hill, it's hard to see
the road up ahead of you. It's the same thing
because it kind of covers your upper visual field. In
(15:51):
order to get this covered by insurance, the insurance companies
do not want to pay for these things, and legitimately
so because there's so much fraud in medicine and fraud
in plastic surgery. Unfortunately, there really is a lot of
people want to get these covered by insurance when they're
not legitimately covered. But if you truly have your upper
(16:11):
visual fields blocked, you go to an independent ophthalmologist that's
an MD eye doctor, not an optometrists, but an ophthalmologist,
and you have your vision checked by that doctor. And
also he'll or she'll check the health of your eye
by measuring for glaucoma, looking at your retina and really
looking over your eye. Good because you have to have
(16:31):
that done. If you're having a blood for a plastic anyway,
you check for teardrop production and things like that. So
you go to that doctor and if they can document
that your visual fields are blocked by your skin, then
it is possible but not probable, that an insurance company
would pay for your surgery. They would pay for upper
lids removal of skin, not removal of the fat, not
(16:53):
operating on your lower lids. So the answer is possibly yes.
Speaker 6 (16:57):
Shelley, Okay, Really it's up to the optimologist and is
it possible that this can be done with a local
so that if there is maybe a little diabetes or
a little cardiobiuscular history, like you know, not too bad,
but I mean it can be done under a local.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
Yeah, it's local anesthesia with a little bit of sedation.
And so this is considered a fairly minor procedure. Although
you know, my chief at the University of Chicago used
to say, there's no such thing as minor surgery, just
minor surgeons, because any procedure that we do can upset
the apple cart. But if you are cleared by your cardiologist,
(17:37):
if you've had a stress test and everything's okay, it
is a procedure that's done under local anesthesia with just
a little bit of anesthetic. I mean, it's a small
body surface area that's operated on. Right, The eyelids are
only a couple of square inches compared to other procedures,
like if you were to have a tummy tuck. That's
a big procedure that cosmetic plastic surgeons do. Iselid procedures
(18:01):
are they're very delicate procedures, but they are not that
much of an insult to your body. So it is
possible that you could have that done. You know, go
to the cardiologist first, ask the opinion, and then make
your appointment. With the plastic surgeon. All right, Rachelle, Rochelle
or whatever your name is.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
Okay, Well, thank you so much, doctor Perry. I really
appreciate it, and that's really good. I'm glad it's nice
weather out there today, so thanks again, and I enjoy
listening to your show.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Well, thank you very much for listening. All right on
board certified plastic surgeon, doctor Arthur Berry, host of What's
Your Wrinkle? Right here on wo R. We're gonna take
a short break. We'll be back with our flashback procedure,
my answer to the clear and brilliant procedure.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
We'll be right back.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
They say that sixty is the new fifty, but while
you may feel and act fifty, the mirror doesn't lie.
But that's where plastic surgery comes in. I'm board certified
plastic surgeon, doctor Arthur Perry, and I love helping patients
look younger and better. If you've got sagging cheeks, jowls,
and that dreaded turkey gobbler, it might be time for
a little nip and a tuck. You look more rested
(19:13):
and yes, younger with my short scar facelift and the
artistic injection of wrinkle filler or a laser peel. Well,
that might be just what it takes to get you
looking as good as you feel. Let's sit down for
an hour consultation in my new Park Avenue office. Together,
we'll come up with a plan to help you look
your best. Give me a call at eight three three
Perry MD. That's a three three p e r R
(19:35):
Y M D. Check me out on the web at
periplastic surgery dot com. And don't forget to listen to
me doctor Arthur Perry every Saturday evening at six pm
right here on wo R. You're listening to What's your
Wrinkle with Doctor Arthur Perry.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
What's your wrinkle?
Speaker 3 (19:51):
What is your wrinkle? You know, everybody's got them. They've
got wrinkles in their faces. As you get older, you've
got wrinkles in your body. And you know, I have
so many patients that come in and they've got lots
and lots of wrinkles on their face. And then I
have the twenty year olds that are coming in now,
the twenty year olds that maybe they've got maybe a
(20:12):
little bit of a wrinkle. They're not sure, but they're
worried that they're going to get wrinkles, and we're in
the era of prevention in medicine and in plastic surgery,
and so there are devices that have come out which
are designed to keep you looking good as long as
you can and keep your skin as robust as possible,
(20:34):
keep the collagen from deteriorating, because what happens as we age,
Our skin actually thickens. From age zero birth to twenty
years old, it thickens, it gets healthier, thicker, looks the
best at twenty and it kind of holds its own
between twenty and thirty, depending on how you live. If
you live a hard life and smoke and take drugs
(20:55):
and drink a lot of alcohol, well, then your skin
is going to age prematurely. And of course if you
get excessive sun exposure, it's going to age prematurely. But
the average person that does not do those things will
maintain their skin quality until they're about thirty, and then
inevitably things are going downhill at a rate of one
percent per year. Your skin will thin, your collagen will thin.
(21:19):
The elastin Those are the stretchy fibers of the skin.
The collagen is the structural fibers of the skin. It's
what holds you together. So haluronic acid, that's the chemical
that we inject, but it's in your skin normally, and
it keeps your skin nice and moist because it's called
a eumectant. It's a chemical that actually absorbs water. And
when you have high amounts of haluronic acid and your skin,
(21:41):
your skin looks young and dewey, as they say, right,
So as you get older, these things begin to deteriorate.
We're in a downhill course. It's so much fun talking
about aging, right, but we all do. And my job
as a plastic surgeon is to help you look as
good as possible as you go through the changes and
ages of a life. So one of the things that
(22:02):
we do is botox, right, and we will do now
preventive botox, not just botox to help those wrinkles that
you have, but botox to prevent the development of the
wrinkles that you're going to get. So if you're someone
that scowls at someone and gets those eleven lines when
you scal, eventually you're gonna have those eleven lines between
(22:22):
your brows even when your don't scal. But if we
botox you, and when I say botox, that's a generic term.
These days, there are six different chemicals. There are chemicals,
there are drugs. There's botox and Zeman and disport and
javou and daxifi and the new one what's a leg bo,
which is a funny name. You know, there's so many.
(22:42):
Now there's six different drugs and they're all basically the same,
and so whether your plastic surgeon uses one or another,
it really doesn't make a difference to you. There's no
substantial difference, although each company tries to say that their
product is better than the other one, so Botox that
it's one of those that I'll do in young people.
And then there's lasers. Now I use the fractionated CO
(23:06):
two laser. The clear and brilliant is a different wavelength
of laser, and wavelengths are like colors. You know, light
has a color, lots of colors. You know that when
you see a rainbow, that's the splitting of all the
different colors of the light. And the laser takes those
specific colors and intensifies those and then does whatever it's
(23:27):
going to do, whatever we're aiming to do. So when
we're trying to go after wrinkles, we actually try and
heat up water in the skin. And there's a lot
of different wavelengths that will heat up water, and the
one that's in the fractional CO two laser, you don't
want to know the actual wavelength that would bore you
to death. But there's others. In the Clear and Brilliant,
(23:49):
they actually use two different wavelengths and they also heat
up water. The way we do this, the reason we're
heating up water is we're trying to create a very
very controlled injury to the skin in and that's what
all these lasers do. It generates collagen, It removes the
upper layer of skin, so it smooths your skin, and
it shrinks the skin to a certain extent. When we
(24:11):
go fairly deep, when we use the fractionated version that
I use, and I combine it with botox all the time,
we do very very light lasering, so light that you
can go back to work the very next day, so
that we're not talking about the deep lasering that I
do to really get rid of wrinkles immediately. We're talking
(24:32):
about maintaining your skin and looking as good as possible.
And that is what we do with the what I
call the flash back procedure. They call it the Clear
and Brilliant procedure. I call it flashback because we're flashing
back to keep you looking like you did before before
you started aging. So that's something that I've been doing
in my office for a few years now and it's
(24:53):
a very successful procedure, and I often will combine it
with botox. And yeah, we're having some specials now the fall,
and that's one of the reasons we're talking about this.
You can give the office a call two one, two, seven,
five three, eighteen twenty. And we've got these programs designed
to do multiple Now, this is a multiple procedure, multiple
(25:14):
laser procedure. It's not one. We do it very lightly
so that there's minimal downtime. Now Noah tells me that
the program is just about to end, so you can
give my office a call. As I said, I've got
offices on eighty fifth in Park in New York. I'm
with Carolyn Messer, doctor Carolyn Messer on sixtieth between Park
and Lexington, and I'm also in Somerset, New Jersey. My
(25:35):
website it's Perryplastic Surgery dot com. And please listen to
the podcast, subscribe to the podcast. And if you're interested
in the products that we talk about on the show,
well it's Amazon dot com, the great company that will
give you free shipping if you're a Prime member, and
you'll get the product before you can even get off
the computer. Almost all right, Noah, thanks so much for
(25:57):
great engineering. We'll see everyone next week. Bye bye, Now
I have a great one.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
The proceeding was a paid podcast. iHeartRadio's hosting of this
podcast constitutes neither an endorsement of the products offered or
the ideas expressed.
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