Male Cosmetic Surgery

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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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 2 (00:28):
The public doesn't give a damn.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
And I went to his office and I said, I said,
look at my face.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
He goes, yeah, look at your face.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
We're going to do with your fan. What can you
do with his face?

Speaker 2 (00:36):
I go like that, I swear to God, I go
and look at this.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
I'm getting old.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
I said, I want to maybe get fix it up
a little bit.

Speaker 4 (00:41):
Doctor Oz, are you there, I'm here Ark, and I
want to get a plugged 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 surgery.

Speaker 4 (00:49):
Remarkable 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 5 (00:54):
When I was a resident at the University of Chicago,
we had.

Speaker 4 (00:57):
A me you smart as a really really gift is 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 relatives.
I didn't realize we were going to get the Michael
Jordan of Plastic Surgeon nine two and zero bows to
this guide.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
And welcome.

Speaker 5 (01:18):
This is Board certified plastic surgeon, doctor Arthur Perry, and
you're listening to What's Your Wrinkle right here on wor
and straight talk about cosmetic surgery. If you're in the
podcast world out there, I hope you're all having a
wonderful weekend. This was a perfect weekend, wasn't it. It
was relatively not that hot and incredible humidity, low humidity

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in the New York area. I would say it's a
top ten day today, and I hope you're wearing your
sunscreen because it was a UV index day of I
believe it was nine and that means anything over three.
You know you need sunscreen, so I hope you're using it.
My Daytime is an SPF twenty three. It's labeled A twenty,

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but it's really a twenty three, and we're giving out
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here at wo R eight hundred three two one.

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Zero seven ten. So give me a call.

Speaker 5 (02:16):
And but it's got to be a good call, you know,
it's got to be a reasonable question for me. Maybe
one of those that's been keeping you up at night.
I know there are many of those. You can ask
me questions about wrinkles or jowls, or turkey gobblers, or
small breasts or large breasts, or fat on your hips
or whatever it is that is bothering you.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
All right.

Speaker 5 (02:39):
So I'm a board certified plastic surgeon, and I live
and breathe cosmetic surgery. It's what I do. Tonight, we
are going to talk about cosmetic surgery in men.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
Men.

Speaker 5 (02:51):
That's uh, you know, it's something I don't talk about
all the time. Uh, but we are talking about it tonight.
So if you're a man, then let's go ahead and
talk about your cosmetic surgery, maybe what you want, what
you could have, So we'll do that. We'll also talk
about how about this. Did you read the New York
Times this week and see the article about cosmetic acupuncture? Well, okay,

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is that the new next botox. We're going to talk
about that tonight also. But let's let's get a phone call.
Eight hundred three to two one zero seven ten is
the phone number here at WO R SO Brad pit
everybody knows Brad Pitt.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
Right, pretty good facelift? What do you think?

Speaker 5 (03:33):
I mean, I don't know if he's had a facelift,
but if you look at him, he looks younger this
year than he did four or five years ago. There's
only two ways that can possibly happen. That's either with
cosmetic surgery or possibly alien abduction. You know, I think
that's maybe could have happened. I suppose right now. Well, anyway,
so you know he's had a pretty good facelift because

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you can't see the scars now. He also has a
probably someone following him around and putting makeup on all
the time. If you look at Joe Biden's facelift, which
I analyze for a newspaper. Well, there you can see
the scars behind his ears. Maybe not the best facelift
for ex President Biden, but Brad Pitt quite good. So

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we'll talk about facelifts and men. We'll talk about eyelids
lifts and men, and other cosmetic surgery in men. But
first we are going to take our first break.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
Noah.

Speaker 5 (04:30):
The phone number here at WOOR is eight hundred three
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What's your Wrinkle?

Speaker 3 (05:50):
And we are back.

Speaker 5 (05:51):
I'm board certified plastic surgeon, doctor Arthur Perry host, so
what's your Wrinkle?

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Right here on WOR.

Speaker 4 (05:57):
So.

Speaker 5 (05:58):
I've been a plastic surgeon for an awful long time,
and I do have to say that ninety five percent
of my practice is women, maybe even higher than that.
I do facelifs and eyelid lifts and breast augmentations and
certainly filler and botox and things like that. But there
are men who have cosmetic surgery. And if you look

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at the numbers, well not as much as you might think,
but the probably the biggest surgical procedure that men have
is breast reduction. It's called ganochomastia in men. That's the
growth of breast tissue in men. And I'm going to
predict that it is going to be much much more
popular in yours to come because the number one drug

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in men that causes breast growth.

Speaker 3 (06:43):
Do you know what it is? Do you know what
it is?

Speaker 5 (06:45):
Noah, it's it's marijuana. And since marijuana is now legal
in many many states, particularly New York and New Jersey,
and you can't walk around the Upper West Side of
Manhattan at eight am in the morning without smelling marijuana,
I think a lot a lot of men are smoking it,
and a lot of men are going to be getting
breast growth and they're going to look at themselves and

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say this is just not acceptable. So last year there
were twenty six thousand men in the United States that
had their breasts reduced. And the way we do that,
by the way, it's not a new procedure. It was
actually perfected but by one of my professors, a guy
named Tom Krizik, when he was chief of plastic surgery
at Columbia. He took an operation that before his work

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on it required very large incisions across the breast, and
what he did was made an incision around the arella,
that's the pigmented area around the breast, and did a
full mast ectomy really through that little tiny incision from
a three to nine o'clock around the bottom of the arela,
removed the breast tissue and then performed Lippos suction that's

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fat removal through a little tiny tubes in the perimeter
of the breast. It's a procedure that I do as
an outpatient. It is a procedure that requires a drain.
It's one of the few, and you know, it's a
pretty high satisfaction procedure. But it is also a procedure
with a significant complication rate. And part of the reason

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for that is because we do it on men, and
men simply have higher complication rate than women because men
don't follow instructions. It's really true women. When I tell
women what they need to do after a facelift, they
do it.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
They really do. They follow it to the letter.

Speaker 5 (08:31):
I had one man that I did this operation on
who got on a motorcycle two days after surgery and bled, well,
what am I gonna do? You know, you have to
pay attention to the rules and you have to really
partner with me to help you look better. So breast
reduction is the number one procedure in men, followed by
liposuction fat removal, and the area that men tend to

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have it is the belly, the abdomen, and the flanks
and then also the neck and gels, as opposed to
women who tend to have liposuction in the outer thighs
and the inner thighs and the knees and the hips.
Those are the big areas rare for women. One of
the reasons women don't have it as often in the

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abdomen the belly is because you really can't do that
procedure after pregnancy. After pregnancy, the skin gets overstretched, you
get stretch marks, you had a little bit of hanging skin,
and if I do suction of that area then it
can actually make things look worse. So in women we
need to do a tummy tuck. But men, you know

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you don't have that issue, right, so we can go
ahead and suction the fat for you know, until you're
in your fifties, sixties even. But one of the things
you might have read of etching of the abdominal wall
in men, have you ever heard of that procedure abdominal
wall etching? That is where it's kind of one of
these bizarre plastic surgery procedures. One of my pet peeves

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as one of the once I would not do. But
abdominal wall etching leaves little mounds of fat where your
six pack muscles are supposed to be. So if you
go to the gym every day, if you do crunches
and sit ups like like I do, right my ex
co host there, Yeah, sure, every day. Well we try,

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but you want to build up the abdominal muscles, that
six pack muscle and get a natural appearance of the
rippling of your rectus abdominus muscles. Right, But if you
don't go to the gym, well you can ask your
plastic surgeon go ahead and etch my belly and leave
little mounds of fat. And that's what people have been doing,

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one of the dumber things. And I'll tell you why.
If you gain a few pounds, that fat that's been
left behind will look like six little breasts on your belly,
you know, kind of like a dog that gets pregnant
with you know, lots of breast, little lumps. They're very
small after the liposuction. If you you know, if you're
a man, you're six feet tall and you weigh one

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hundred and eighty pounds, you have just that recalcitran fat
suction from your belly, but then you kind of gain
a little weight. You go up to two hundred and
ten pounds, you've gained thirty pounds in your body. Where
does that fat go? It goes wherever it was genetically
predetermined to go. And if you're going to gain weight
in your belly, now you're gonna have those six or
eight discrete little mounts. So I don't advise the abdominal

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wall etching. You know, suction, yes, but not that etching.
So where else do men have?

Speaker 3 (11:33):
What else? What other procedures do they have? How about
island lifts?

Speaker 5 (11:37):
There are fifteen thousand in the United States, and that's
probably the procedure.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
That I do the most of in men.

Speaker 5 (11:44):
And now with Brad Pitt, there's going to be a
resurgence and facelifting in men. Necklifting there were only twenty
seven hundred necklifts in men last year. And true facelifts,
and a facelift is a cheek lift and a necklift.
There are about six thousand or so in men. But
you know that's one where there is great potential and

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if it's done correctly then it will look good. Now,
men don't do well with incisions on their face because
they don't wear makeup. Also, one of the problems with
doing facelifts and men is it brings the skin of
the face up and back, and that means it brings
hair bearing skin into the ear because I make an
incision actually behind that thing called the tragus, that little

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tiny piece of cartilage in front of your ear, And
if you've got hair growing on your tragis and in
your ear, that's a pain in the neck. No pun intended.
It really is to try and shape that and make
it look good. Now, if you have a pretty big sideburns,
I saw a man last week that has really bushy sideburns,
not going to be an issue, right, So that's okay.

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But if you have sideburns that go to the top
of your ear, it could be a little bit of
an issue. We try and remove some of that hair
by the surgical techniques, but some still grows in that area.

Speaker 3 (13:01):
So so cheek lifts.

Speaker 5 (13:03):
You know, maybe not as popular in men as they
would be if we didn't have that issue, the scarring
issue and the hair issue. But one thing that can
be popular and more popular over the years is the
neck lift, where we can actually just make a small
decision underneath the chin, suction out the fat, bring the
muscles of the neck together, those band muscles. Sometimes put

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a chin and plant in important in both men and
women to have a strong chin, probably even more in
men to have a you know, you know men who
have small chins, they call them weak chins. You know,
that's just not a cosmetic appearance, but that's a psychological term, right.
So we put a chin and plant in through that

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very same incision, and it really does change your neck contour,
and without even having a lift of cheeks, we can
have a substantial change in your appearance. So those are
the surgical procedures. But of course, six hundred thousand men
had botox last.

Speaker 3 (14:04):
Year, six hundred thousand.

Speaker 5 (14:05):
Now, now granted there were almost ten million total botox injections,
So women are you know what I remember what I said,
ninety five percent.

Speaker 3 (14:14):
There you go.

Speaker 5 (14:15):
You've got ten million people total and about half a
million men having those injections, so that's right around five percent,
six percent something like that. So botox very very popular
in men and women as well as fillers, about about
one hundred and forty five thousand. But in women, of course,

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five point three million fillers. So certainly all these procedures
are dwarfed by the popularity in women, but there are
men that still have these procedures. It's very important that
when we operate on men and when we do fillers
in botox, we take into consideration the obvious difference is
in the in your gender. So with a man, when

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I do the upper eyelids, we leave a little bit
of skin. With a woman, we want to take that
skin so that you can apply makeup and in a
nice clean appearance. With a man, if I did that,
it would feminize the eyelids. And of course men are
not gonna have their lips made bigger like women have
their lips made bigger. It just looks funny in men.

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But men often will have their nasalabial folds or marionette lines,
those are the lines between the corner of the mouth
and the bottom of the chin filled because those are
real age giveaways. So certainly we have to change the
way we do the procedures and men often men, we're blessed, right,
we don't get those fine wrinkles that women get.

Speaker 3 (15:45):
We just don't.

Speaker 5 (15:47):
I'm not sure exactly why that is. It probably has
something to do with the blood supply of the face.

Speaker 3 (15:51):
To support your beard.

Speaker 5 (15:53):
So you have a higher blood supply and your face
is gonna wrinkle a little bit less. We're gonna take
another break, and when we back from the break, we're
gonna talk about something a little bizarre as I like
to talk about. If you read the New York Times
this week, they talked about using acupuncture to look better.
Does that work?

Speaker 3 (16:13):
What do you think? Noah?

Speaker 5 (16:15):
I'm doctor Arthur Perry, host of What's Your Wrinkle? Right
here on WOR eight hundred three two one zero seven
ten is the phone number. We'll take a short break.
We'll be back after these messages. They say that sixty
is the new fifty. But while you may feel and

(16:36):
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 and yes, younger. With my short
scar facelift and the artistic injection of wrinkle filler or

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a laser. 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 Y m D. Check me out on
the web at Perry Plastic Surgery dot com. And don't

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All right, so now how about how about acupuncture for beauty?
Do you think that works?

Speaker 3 (20:42):
What do you think?

Speaker 5 (20:43):
You know, acupuncture is very useful, all right. We all
know that it's very useful for pain syndromes, it's useful
for back pain's, there's all sorts of things, actually good
for sleep. You know, there's a lot of good uses
for acupunctury. It really does work. It's scientifically proven. It's
not hocus pocus. But but people are starting to do

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it to look better. And if you look, the New
York Times had a whole article on this this week, and.

Speaker 3 (21:15):
You know, they call it holistic medicine. Is it really?

Speaker 5 (21:18):
What is holistic to begin with? So you know, you
hear about this term holistic medicine. It's characterized by the
treatment of the whole person. Okay, that makes sense, right,
And it takes into account the mental and social factors,
not just symptoms of the illness. So really, you know,
most of medicine really is holistic. I like to think
if you've got a good doctor, you've got a holistic doctor.

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By by definition, we take care of whole patients. We
don't just take care of one particular illness. And they
should not write your doctor should not. So forget about
these these marketing terms. You know, holistic and this and that.
I think most doctors really are. But how about these
that putting needles in your face, little tiny acupuncture needles

(22:04):
to try and look better. Right, So if you look
at the New York Times this week, they talk about this,
They talk about going for four or six weeks and
having these all these little tiny needles. Acupuncture needles are
are there, tiny and they don't hurt a lot, They
just hurt a little bit. I've actually never had acupuncture,
I do have to say, but people in my family have.

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And as I said, I think the science certainly is there.
But can acupuncture get rid of frownlines? Which is what
they're saying? Now, you know you don't need botox, let's
just get some acupuncture.

Speaker 3 (22:38):
What do you think?

Speaker 5 (22:40):
Well, you know, you know very well what I'm gonna say. Acupuncture.
You know, how could it possibly get rid of frownlines. Now,
there was one study and it was out of Iran,
and they looked at seventy two people. Half of them
had acupuncture and have did not have avacuate puncture, and

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they had a number of weeks I guess there were
seven weeks of acupuncture. And in this particular small study,
something like two thirds of patients said that they look better,
that their frownlines were better.

Speaker 3 (23:16):
Now, there's no way.

Speaker 5 (23:17):
To randomize have a randomized, controlled, blinded study, which is
what we want when we give a medication to patients
to see if it works. We give a medication to
one group and you give a sugar pill to the
other group. So neither the patient nor the examiner knows
whether or not they're getting the drug, and that way
we can see if there's an effect. You know, no

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one knows really who's getting it here. You know who's
getting You're either getting a needle put in your face
or no needle put in your face. So you can't
really randomize this, you can't really blind the study. So
you know, we take this with a grain of salt.
Literally one study that's it, This particular study said, yeah,
reduce frownlines at rest in the group that got the acupuncture.

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That's it one study. No other studies in the world
have shown acupuncture to be useful for cosmetic reasons. Are
you going to put your money on one particular study
out of Iran with thirty six people getting the acupuncture
and supposedly having their frown lines look better. Not me?

Speaker 3 (24:23):
Not me.

Speaker 5 (24:23):
It doesn't make any sense at all if you really
look at the literature where some of these so called studies,
there's one that acupuncture needles were put in the face
to reduce the master muscle volume. You know, we that's
the muscle that you get when you chew right and
some people get a square face with a mass. So

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in one study they put these acupuncture needles and to
reduce the volume. And they said, yeah, it stimulates. It
stimulates points around the muscle and reduces the volume. Other
studies about acupunctures say it's supposed to build up muscle anyway.
It's a world of confusion with this. I say, you know,

(25:04):
I wouldn't do it. It's a waste your money. If
you want botox, you get botox. If you want acupuncture
for pain or for to help you sleep, or whatever,
or if you have Bell's palsy. It's proven to work
in that situation. Reasonable. But for beauty, I don't think
so botox works, And if you don't want botox, don't

(25:24):
waste your money on something that can't work. All right,
I'm board certified plastic surgeon, doctor Arthur Perry, host of
What's Your Wrinkle? Right here on wor. My website is
periplastic Surgery dot com. So go to that if you're
interested in my services, if you want to learn a
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It is a great way to buy products. You can
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with me. Thanks so much for great engineering. Noah, We'll

(26:07):
see everybody next week. Stay healthy and don't forget your
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