Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
The following is a paid podcast. iHeartRadio's hosting of this
podcast constitutes neither an endorsement of the products offered or
the ideas expressed.
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 that
public doesn't get a damn.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
And I went to his office and I said, I said,
look at my face. And he goes, yeah, look at
your face. We're going to do with your fan What
can you do with his face? I go like that,
I say what I got? I go, look at this,
I'm getting old. I said, I want to maybe he
can 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.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
To Arthur Perry, the best in plastic.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
Surgery and workable knowledge, but also your grace at delivering 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 I.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
Mean, you're smart, as I really really gift his position.
I want to pay you bit the highest tree that
I can give to a surgeon, which is when people
come to you, they don't come for an operation, they
come for the 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 Surgeons nine
oh two and zero bows to this guide and welcome.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
This is BORD certified plastic surgeon, doctor Arthur Perry, and
you are listening to What's Your Wrinkle right here on
WOR streaming and podcasting. It's straight talk about cosmetic surgery,
because that is what we do here. We talk about
cosmetic surgery, and I tell it to you straight. I'm
a board certified plastic surgeon, been doing this show what
(01:37):
seems like forever, but it's about almost This is the
twentieth season on WOR, and I'm so happy to be here.
I'm going to be talking about all sorts of things
that affect you this evening, and we're live. Eight hundred
three two one zero seven ten is the phone number
here at WOR And Yeah, I'm a board certified plastic surgeon.
(01:57):
I trained at Harvard, Cornell, and the University issue and
I'm on the faculty of Columbia and Rutgers. That's what
I do during the day and Saturday evenings. I sit
here and try and entertain a bit, and educate a
bit and help you all through the little trials that
you go through with cosmetic surgery. So today we're going
(02:18):
to be talking. We're going to kind of finish that
wedding thing we were talking about. You know, June weddings
are coming up. It's only three four months away. It's
February already, and it's time if you are interested in
getting some work done, as they say, or let's say
it's your daughter getting married or you're getting married, well,
you know, time is running out. Let's talk. Let's finish
(02:39):
the talk about what you can do now and how
invasive a thing you can do with time running out.
You think, well, you know it's a June wedding. I
have plenty of time. I have so many people that
call me weeks before the weddings and they say, well,
you know, is there time to get a face? Look? Really,
come on now, how before the wedding did you buy
(03:01):
that dress? Well, we'll talk all about that on the
show today. Unfortunately, in Mexico, another cosmetic surgery death. You know,
it just keeps happening, and I try to keep you
safe by giving you the power understanding what it is
you need to ask, how you choose a plastic surgeon,
(03:23):
how you choose a facility, and anesesiologist. We'll talk a
little bit about that very unfortunate death. And kuy Bella.
How many of you have used Kui Bella? Do you
know what that is? No one knows. You know. It's
an injection of some acid into your neck to dissolve fat.
And boy, that sounds great, right, you don't even need
(03:44):
lipos suction anymore. Well, I don't do it. I haven't
done it. I did train in it, and another study
came out this week talking about why I would not
do it. So we'll talk a little bit about that.
But we'll also take your phone calls three two, one
zero seven ten. We're going to be giving away bottles
of soft time. Soft Time is the moisturizer that you
(04:06):
need on your hands and on your face when it
is so called. This has been a brutal winter, hasn't
it been in New York? Those of you listening in
in Arizona? All right, come on now, you know, don't gloat.
It was tough up here. But it's February now. That
means the crocuses will be coming up in just a
couple of weeks. Let's let's hope. All right, we've got
(04:27):
We've got Sondra on the line. Sondra, what can I
do for you? What is your wrinkle today?
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Well?
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Do's good evening, Doctor Perry. I went to my cousin's party.
She invited me to meet. I met her friends, and
one friend I think had a lip augmented. It was different.
She had like stitches under her nose and her lips
were waised and did I like, hell, looked no. But
I wanted to ask you what your thoughts on that.
(04:54):
I think it's called a lip augmentation, and it's different
than what people usually do, like still in their lift
and it goes away, and I'm wondering, this didn't look
good and is this a permanent thing that she did?
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Well, Sondra, what you're talking about is not exactly a
lip augmentation. It is a lip lift, and it is
reasonable to do. It's got to be done very very carefully,
and I do those, and I do those often in
the office under local anesthesia. But what happens in a
lip lift is I numb you up and I make
(05:30):
incisions in the base of the nostrils and around that
little piece of skin called the columella, and I will
remove several millimeters of skin. Now, the indication for this
is a very long upper lip, which some people gets
as they age. But you have to be very very careful.
It's got to be done just right because it can
(05:52):
look strange, it can look bizarre right, and it can
make your lip, it can make it too high, or
it can make it asymmetrical. And so I don't do
it that frequently. I think it is better. Most people
just have lost volume in the lip and that tends
to have your lip hang down a bit. And so
what we're what you were talking about is by the
(06:12):
injection of filler. It's much much simpler, but it's got
to be done very correctly, very carefully. Also, otherwise you
can look like a duck right, you can look terrible
with too much filler or or improperly placed filler. It's
there's almost an epidemic. Do you know why there's that epidemic?
Speaker 6 (06:31):
No, I do not know why.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
I'm gonna tell you, and I'm going to segue maybe
into something that is just a little bit strange. But
do you know that you can get that you meaning
any doctor, nurse, dentist, pediatrists. They can go online and
train online and train in a variety of things. And
(06:54):
one of those things is wrinkle filler, right, wrinkle phil
And you know that there are some courses as short
as one hour and three minutes. They cost not kidding you.
You do it online and you get a really nice certificate.
And how pathetic is that? How ridiculous is that? And
these people are advertising themselves as esthetic specialists or even
(07:19):
plastic surgeons. You know, it's the wild west of this
and that is why you see so much bad cosmetic
surgery because a lot of it's not done by plastic surgeons.
It's done to these people that take these courses. You
can go online. I'm not going to give out the website,
but it is amazing just how prevalent it is, and
(07:39):
these courses are everywhere, and they're usually not taught by
plastic surgeons. They're taught by I don't know whom, but anyway,
so I'm not wild about the lip lift in most cases,
but I do do it because in some people that
have truly long upper lips, it is the only thing
that will really correct that and give you a nice
(08:00):
looking smile. You should see some teeth, some some tooth
show when you smile, and if you don't, if you
hardly do, or if you don't smile because you're you're
worried about about your smile, well it might be a
procedure for you. Sondra.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
Okay, oh that's very interesting. So I mean, and what
else you just said, you know, going doing learning to
do this yourself. There's an old expression you get what
you paid for. So if you go that route, you're
gonna probably get what you pay for, and if you
go the right route, like you, you're gonna get what
you paid for. And it's a good thing.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Yeah. Well, well, I appreciate your saying that, and it's true.
It's it's really amazing what's going on out there. So yeah,
be careful and uh, and thank you for calling and
telling us about this not so good result that you saw.
You know, it's hard to as a plastic surgeon. You
know if people ask me all the time, do you
are you looking at me as a prospective patient or
(08:58):
are you evaluating me? You know, and to a certain
extent it's true, not as a perspective patient perspective patient,
but but you know I look at someone and say, well,
you know, they could get that mold taken off, they
could maybe have a rhin up, last to a facelift,
give me a give me a couple of hours, I
can make you look absolutely beautiful. So yeah, it does happen,
(09:19):
and at parties. But what can I tell you? Sondra,
thank you so much for the phone call. I appreciate it.
I'm board certified plastic church and doctor Arthur Perry, host
of What's Your Wrinkle? Right here on w o R,
We're going to take a short break. Noah, eight hundred
three two one zero seven ten is the phone number.
When we come back, we'll finish that discussion, hopefully finish it. It
kind of drags on, doesn't it? About what we can
(09:41):
do this week? This week? Where the time is running
out if you have one of those June weddings, you're
going to all right, eight hundred three two one zero
seven ten, We'll be right back. Did you know that
your skincare may be hurting you more than helping you.
(10:03):
I'm board certified plastic surgeon, doctor Arthur Perry. The foundation
for looking good is clean, healthy skin. 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 my Daytime
(10:24):
SPF twenty cream in the evening, feed your skin with
my Powerhouse Nighttime serum. Nighttime has vitamin CNA, antioxidants and
skin brighteners. And if you like moisturizers, well, I've created
Soft Time with seramides and vitamin D. Throw away the
bags of useless products and try doctor Perry's Skincare. Join
(10:44):
the thousands of people whose skin is healthier. That's doctor
Perry's Skincare on Amazon dot com. And don't forget to
listen to my radio show right here on wor Every
Saturday evening at six pm.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
You are listening to What's Your Wrinkle with doctor Arthur Perry.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
So what's your rainkle? And I'm back. This is BORD
certified plastic surgeon, doctor Arthur Perry, host of What's Your Wrinkle?
Right here on w R eight hundred three two one
zero seven ten is the phone number. Give me a call.
We've only got it's a short show now, we're only
a half an hour. So if you want to call, yeah,
you got to do it pretty pretty quickly and be
(11:20):
ready like Sondra is at the beginning of the show.
All right, So yeah, springtime, it's the time for weddings, right,
It's you know, June is that big month July. Everybody
wants to get married when it's beautiful weather. And for
those of you who have daughters or sons getting married,
you know, you know what I'm talking about. You're you're
already planning. You're planning the venue, and you're planning the
(11:42):
what you're going to wear, and then you often will
look at yourself and say, jeez, I just wish I
did have this fat in my neck. You know, I'm
going to be in front of everybody, I've got photographs
to take and what am I going to do? And
you call me up and yes, it's February. I'll see
you this week. We'll do a consultation and then we've
(12:02):
got to really hustle to get your surgery on in
the next month or so because you need to see
an internist. That means you need medical clearance before surgery.
There's some laboratory tests if you're over sixty. I like
to get a stress test before facelifts, before eyelid lifts,
because you know, I want to be safe and you
want to be safe. We don't want anything to happen.
(12:23):
And every now and then we find something. You know,
you failed the stress test, and it's a good thing
we did it because if we hadn't done it, you
might have had what we call an event in the
operating room. We don't want that. We want it to
be very, very safe. So there's some things that you
need to do before we get into the operating room,
and we need to plan. But more importantly, or as importantly,
(12:46):
we need to have you fully recover. Let's say you're
gonna have a facelift. Let's say it's the joals. Let's
say it's some fat in the neck. Let's say you've
got a turkey gobbler and you look at yourself and
you say, I had this happen. You know, I'm sixty
years old. I feel thirty years old. I look in
the mirror, I look sixty. I look seventy. Well, all right,
(13:06):
so I can fix that, right, We can do that.
We can do it together under local anesthesia. That's what
a facelift is. It's local anesesia with sedation. And some
people do facelifts under general anesesia. I actually prefer them
under local anesthesia, a little more difficult for the plastic surgeon. However,
the reason I do that is because there's no nausea
(13:29):
for the most part. I mean, it's a very very
rare event to get nauseated after intravenous sedation. We only
use a few drugs, things like propofol and versa. Those
are the drugs that you've probably had if you've had
a colonoscopy, and something called ketamine, which is a very
safe drug when an anesthesiologist gives it. Not too safe
if you give it to yourself. But we use those
(13:50):
drugs because they do not cause nausea. We want to
avoid things like narcotics and anesthetic gases. Under general anesthesia.
Twenty percent of people get nauseated. Not a good thing
to have happen if you're going to have a facelift
or an eyelid lift, because if you have to vomit
not good. Your blood pressure goes up and there's a
higher chance of bleeding, and of course that's not a
(14:12):
good thing for a lot of reasons. You won't look
as good, your healing will be delayed, not a good thing.
So we want to avoid that. And when we do
this under sedation anesthesia, you're in and out the same day.
It takes about four hours to do a facelift, a
typical facelift, and then you go home. You look like
a mummy that first day. I take the dressings off
the next day, and the stitches out about a week
(14:32):
or so later, and it takes two weeks before you're
going to even be seen outside of your home, you know.
I mean, look nowadays around Manhattan people are walking around
with bandages. I saw someone in a robe this afternoon,
not kidding. In the East side of Manhattan. Someone was
walking in a bathrobe. Well, Manhattan. You can't get away
(14:53):
with that in Nebraska, I suppose, But in Manhattan it
even goes so here we are two weeks later the
a maybe a social event, that's okay. But if it's
going to be your wedding or your daughter's wedding or
your son's wedding, and you are everybody knows it's the parents, right,
everybody's looking at you. You're in all the photographs, and
(15:15):
you know you're being toasted along with the bride, along
with the groom, and so you want to look as
good as possible, and we don't want any issues to
be there. And so I say it takes a good
three months before you really really should go to a
wedding or your own wedding, or your daughter or son's wedding.
(15:38):
You know that's a long long time, maybe, but give
it some time because while in almost all cases everything
goes nice and smoothly, there can be little rumples in
the neck and little tiny bumps from very small amounts
of bleeding or very small amounts of swelling, and the
camera might catch that. So if you're in the public eye,
(16:00):
you'll really want to give it as much time as possible.
So if it's a facelift, if it's an eyelid lift,
give it really three months. That means you really have
to get in real soon and have your surgery within
about a month or so, because otherwise probably not the
best idea to have a facelift. Now, liposuction in the neck, well,
that recovery is much faster. That's about six weeks or so.
(16:21):
And certainly if you're having filler or boatox, you don't
have to worry about time. Course give it to a
week or so for the bruising to go away. From
filler and boatox, well, you know there's usually no bruising,
but it takes as long as two weeks to kick in.
So if you're really looking for a boatox effect, you'll
want to do it at least two weeks before the wedding,
(16:43):
if not longer. So that's what you need to do. Uh,
and you know there's still plenty of time. You don't
have to panic yet. And certainly if we're talking about
procedures that are hidden by clothing, like a breast augmentation
or a breast lift or a tummy tuck, well we
have a little bit more time because obviously no one
(17:03):
is going to be seeing those. We're going to be
wearing clothes, and so if there are minor imperfections or
things like that, or scars that are visible, they are
not going to be visible with most clothes, although I've
seen some of these new wedding gowns. You never know,
so maybe it all depends on what you're going to
be wearing. All right on board certified plastic Church and
(17:24):
doctor Arthur Perry, host of What's Your Wrinkled? Right here
on wor So those of you who are on TikTok,
is it back? Noah, I don't know. Well, there's a
TikTok influencer who died in a Mexico cosmetic surgery clinic
last week. What a terrible story. And I seem to
tell this story over and over again. And the person
who she went to no names here, but the person
(17:45):
she went to was not board certified, not a real
plastic chursion, not really capable of performing cosmetic surgery. She
died having Lippos suction, which is just such a terrible thing.
She had a cardiac arrest in the operating room. They
got her to the hospital three days later she died
twenty two. I'm sorry, twenty seven years old. It should
never happen. When I come back from the break, we're
(18:06):
going to review what you can do to avoid tragedies
like this really terrible? Can it be avoided in one
hundred percent of cases?
Speaker 6 (18:14):
No?
Speaker 3 (18:14):
But you really want to stack every everything in your favor,
and we'll talk about that when we come back. Eight
hundred three two one zero seven ten will be back
after these words. They say that sixty is the new fifty,
But while you may feel and act fifty, the mirror
(18:35):
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 a laser peel, well,
(18:58):
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 eight three three p e R R Y M D.
Check me out on the web at periplasticsurgery dot com.
And don't forget to listen to me doctor Arthur Perry.
(19:20):
Every Saturday evening at six pm right here on wo R.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
You're listening to What's your Wrinkle with Doctor Arthur Perry.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
What's your wrinkle? And what is your wrinkle? On board
certified plastic surge Doctor Arthur Perry. And a lot of
people wonder, am I just the guy on the radio? No,
I'm a real plastic surgeon. I've got an office on
eighty fifth and Park, beautiful office. I do minor procedures there.
I do boatoks and fillers and lasers, and the bigger
procedures like facelifts and eelid lifts and tummy talks and
(19:52):
rest augmentations and lifts and things of that nature. I
do over at Manhattan Iron Ear Hospital right here in Manhattan,
and some surger centers all so, but I like operating
over at Manhattan nine Year. It's a great hospital. But
we do what we can do in the office as
long as it's safe. And I don't do major surgery
in the office anymore. Used to in New Jersey I
(20:13):
had the actually the first operating room in an office
in the state of New Jersey in the early nineteen
nineties and never had an event, never had a problem,
thank god, and did it all for many, many years.
But you know, would I be operated on in a
doctor's office now, Yeah, I don't know, you know, Like
(20:33):
I like the security and the safety of a real
hospital or of a surgeon center where there's lots of
doctors and antesesiologists and nurses around, not just you know,
one or two doctors or one or two nurses. But
you know, I'm a kind of error on the safe side.
What can I tell you? All Right, So this TikTok influencer,
her name was Denise Reyes, and you know what happened?
(20:57):
What went wrong with her lip a suction? I don't know.
I don't, honestly don't know, and I'm not sure anyone knows.
Could have been a fat embolism, could have been ltokine toxicity,
toxicity from the anesthetic that was injected. Someone could have
penetrated a vital organ like believe it or not. In
the literature, every single organ has been penetrated in liposuction, heart, lung, liver,
(21:20):
terrible should it happen, of course not with a board
certified plastic surgeon. Look, anything can happen, there are accidents
that can happen, but the chance with someone who's well
trained it is exceedingly low. Liposuction, in fact, all of
cosmetic surgery is amazingly safe when it's done the right way,
and that means done by a board certified plastic surgeon
(21:41):
with a board certified antithesiologist, whether it's under general anesthesia
or intravenous anesthesia, and it's done in a facility that
is accredited, and you could pretty much be sure. Certainly
in the New York area, all the hospitals are accredited.
They're not going to be open if they're not in
the surgis centers. Also, in order to operate to be
(22:05):
in the American Society of Plastic Surgeons and the Aesthetic Society,
which I am in, in order to be in those societies,
we have to operate in accredited facilities. We're not allowed
to operate in unaccredited facilities, which is good for you.
And also, you know, our National Society wants people to
know that if you choose a surgeon in one of
(22:25):
those two organizations, the American Society Plastic Surgeons or the
Aesthetic Society. You're going to get a surgeon that practices
safe plastic surgery in a safe institution, in a safe
surgeon center that is accredited, and that means there's outside examiners.
They come in and they make sure it is safe.
But beyond that, you want to choose the doctor who
(22:47):
went to a good medical school, did a real residency
in plastic surgery, and a good residency you know, there
are good ones and there are some not so good ones,
and then is certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery.
Those are the minimum criteria that you should be looking
for to find a plastic surgery. Now, when you go
outside the country, when you go to Mexico, how on
(23:08):
earth are you going to know? How are you gonna
know what the training of that doctor is? I mean really,
and can you act absolutely communicate with that doctor. It's
hard enough. I'll tell you, you know, relatives of mine were
operated on in the last couple weeks, and I know
it's hard enough to grab the doctor that's in the
United States, that's in New York and really get a
lot of information out of the doctor. And those are
(23:31):
ones that speak English and are well trained. You know
they're good doctors. But everybody's busy. But how about going
down to Mexico going to another country? People are going
to Turkey for cosmetic surgery. Can you communicate? Can you
get proper information? I don't know. Do you know that
it's an accredited facility? Is the doctor well trained? Are
(23:51):
they using sterile equipment? You think you know it's obvious here,
but you never know. What about the stitches? Believe it
or not? There is There are companies that buy expired
products in the United States. They say they're using them
for veterinary medicine. But you know what, I would not
doubt if they appeared in other countries. How are you
(24:14):
gonna know? You can't know, So stay safe, you know,
I always say, you know, go and have your surgery
in the United States. Locally, Yes, I have out of
town people come in. I tell them they've got to
stay in the area for two weeks because we have
to be able to take care of you adequately. We
don't want you just flying in and going out two
days later. What happens if you do have a complication.
(24:35):
Because every plastic surgeon who's honest will tell you. Yeah,
they've had complications in their career. Of course, it's impossible
to be a surgeon without having complications. And for you,
any complication might occur. If it occurs, it's going to
be in the first day or two after surgery for
the most part, and certainly within two weeks of surgery.
And so stay around where you are being operated on
(24:57):
for a couple of weeks. If you can't do that,
then make sure you get operated on locally by the
guy the girl in the neighborhood, so you know you're
not going to San Francisco or something like that, and
then buzzing back to New York a few days later.
All right, there's so much to talk about. I always
have lots of topics to get to, but time runs
out very quickly. Here if you want more information about me,
(25:19):
the website is Perryplasticsurgery dot com. I've got offices in Somerset,
New Jersey, that's central New Jersey, and on Park Avenue
in Manhattan. I am here and you can give me
a call during the week two one, two seven five
three eighteen twenty two and two seven five three eighteen
twenty in New Jersey it's seven three two four two
two ninety six hundred and if you are interested in
(25:42):
the products that I talk about on the show, my
skincare line, you can get on Amazon dot com. Now
that's how you do at Amazon dot com. It's a
great service. Let me tell you can order tonight and
have it in a day or two. Thanks so much
for great engineering. No, we'll see everybody next week. Have
a good one. Bye bye now.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Preceding was a paid podcast. iHeartRadio's hosting of this podcast
constitutes neither an endorsement of the products offered or the
ideas expressed.
The following is a paid podcast. iHeartRadio's hosting of this
podcast constitutes neither an endorsement of the products offered or
the ideas expressed.
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 that
public doesn't get a damn.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
And I went to his office and I said, I said,
look at my face. And he goes, yeah, look at
your face. We're going to do with your fan What
can you do with his face? I go like that,
I say what I got? I go, look at this,
I'm getting old. I said, I want to maybe he
can 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.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
To Arthur Perry, the best in plastic.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
Surgery and workable knowledge, but also your grace at delivering 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 I.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
Mean, you're smart, as I really really gift his position.
I want to pay you bit the highest tree that
I can give to a surgeon, which is when people
come to you, they don't come for an operation, they
come for the 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 Surgeons nine
oh two and zero bows to this guide and welcome.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
This is BORD certified plastic surgeon, doctor Arthur Perry, and
you are listening to What's Your Wrinkle right here on
WOR streaming and podcasting. It's straight talk about cosmetic surgery,
because that is what we do here. We talk about
cosmetic surgery, and I tell it to you straight. I'm
a board certified plastic surgeon, been doing this show what
(01:37):
seems like forever, but it's about almost This is the
twentieth season on WOR, and I'm so happy to be here.
I'm going to be talking about all sorts of things
that affect you this evening, and we're live. Eight hundred
three two one zero seven ten is the phone number
here at WOR And Yeah, I'm a board certified plastic surgeon.
(01:57):
I trained at Harvard, Cornell, and the University issue and
I'm on the faculty of Columbia and Rutgers. That's what
I do during the day and Saturday evenings. I sit
here and try and entertain a bit, and educate a
bit and help you all through the little trials that
you go through with cosmetic surgery. So today we're going
(02:18):
to be talking. We're going to kind of finish that
wedding thing we were talking about. You know, June weddings
are coming up. It's only three four months away. It's
February already, and it's time if you are interested in
getting some work done, as they say, or let's say
it's your daughter getting married or you're getting married, well,
you know, time is running out. Let's talk. Let's finish
(02:39):
the talk about what you can do now and how
invasive a thing you can do with time running out.
You think, well, you know it's a June wedding. I
have plenty of time. I have so many people that
call me weeks before the weddings and they say, well,
you know, is there time to get a face? Look? Really,
come on now, how before the wedding did you buy
(03:01):
that dress? Well, we'll talk all about that on the
show today. Unfortunately, in Mexico, another cosmetic surgery death. You know,
it just keeps happening, and I try to keep you
safe by giving you the power understanding what it is
you need to ask, how you choose a plastic surgeon,
(03:23):
how you choose a facility, and anesesiologist. We'll talk a
little bit about that very unfortunate death. And kuy Bella.
How many of you have used Kui Bella? Do you
know what that is? No one knows. You know. It's
an injection of some acid into your neck to dissolve fat.
And boy, that sounds great, right, you don't even need
(03:44):
lipos suction anymore. Well, I don't do it. I haven't
done it. I did train in it, and another study
came out this week talking about why I would not
do it. So we'll talk a little bit about that.
But we'll also take your phone calls three two, one
zero seven ten. We're going to be giving away bottles
of soft time. Soft Time is the moisturizer that you
(04:06):
need on your hands and on your face when it
is so called. This has been a brutal winter, hasn't
it been in New York? Those of you listening in
in Arizona? All right, come on now, you know, don't gloat.
It was tough up here. But it's February now. That
means the crocuses will be coming up in just a
couple of weeks. Let's let's hope. All right, we've got
(04:27):
We've got Sondra on the line. Sondra, what can I
do for you? What is your wrinkle today?
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Well?
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Do's good evening, Doctor Perry. I went to my cousin's party.
She invited me to meet. I met her friends, and
one friend I think had a lip augmented. It was different.
She had like stitches under her nose and her lips
were waised and did I like, hell, looked no. But
I wanted to ask you what your thoughts on that.
(04:54):
I think it's called a lip augmentation, and it's different
than what people usually do, like still in their lift
and it goes away, and I'm wondering, this didn't look
good and is this a permanent thing that she did?
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Well, Sondra, what you're talking about is not exactly a
lip augmentation. It is a lip lift, and it is
reasonable to do. It's got to be done very very carefully,
and I do those, and I do those often in
the office under local anesthesia. But what happens in a
lip lift is I numb you up and I make
(05:30):
incisions in the base of the nostrils and around that
little piece of skin called the columella, and I will
remove several millimeters of skin. Now, the indication for this
is a very long upper lip, which some people gets
as they age. But you have to be very very careful.
It's got to be done just right because it can
(05:52):
look strange, it can look bizarre right, and it can
make your lip, it can make it too high, or
it can make it asymmetrical. And so I don't do
it that frequently. I think it is better. Most people
just have lost volume in the lip and that tends
to have your lip hang down a bit. And so
what we're what you were talking about is by the
(06:12):
injection of filler. It's much much simpler, but it's got
to be done very correctly, very carefully. Also, otherwise you
can look like a duck right, you can look terrible
with too much filler or or improperly placed filler. It's
there's almost an epidemic. Do you know why there's that epidemic?
Speaker 6 (06:31):
No, I do not know why.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
I'm gonna tell you, and I'm going to segue maybe
into something that is just a little bit strange. But
do you know that you can get that you meaning
any doctor, nurse, dentist, pediatrists. They can go online and
train online and train in a variety of things. And
(06:54):
one of those things is wrinkle filler, right, wrinkle phil
And you know that there are some courses as short
as one hour and three minutes. They cost not kidding you.
You do it online and you get a really nice certificate.
And how pathetic is that? How ridiculous is that? And
these people are advertising themselves as esthetic specialists or even
(07:19):
plastic surgeons. You know, it's the wild west of this
and that is why you see so much bad cosmetic
surgery because a lot of it's not done by plastic surgeons.
It's done to these people that take these courses. You
can go online. I'm not going to give out the website,
but it is amazing just how prevalent it is, and
(07:39):
these courses are everywhere, and they're usually not taught by
plastic surgeons. They're taught by I don't know whom, but anyway,
so I'm not wild about the lip lift in most cases,
but I do do it because in some people that
have truly long upper lips, it is the only thing
that will really correct that and give you a nice
(08:00):
looking smile. You should see some teeth, some some tooth
show when you smile, and if you don't, if you
hardly do, or if you don't smile because you're you're
worried about about your smile, well it might be a
procedure for you. Sondra.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
Okay, oh that's very interesting. So I mean, and what
else you just said, you know, going doing learning to
do this yourself. There's an old expression you get what
you paid for. So if you go that route, you're
gonna probably get what you pay for, and if you
go the right route, like you, you're gonna get what
you paid for. And it's a good thing.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Yeah. Well, well, I appreciate your saying that, and it's true.
It's it's really amazing what's going on out there. So yeah,
be careful and uh, and thank you for calling and
telling us about this not so good result that you saw.
You know, it's hard to as a plastic surgeon. You
know if people ask me all the time, do you
are you looking at me as a prospective patient or
(08:58):
are you evaluating me? You know, and to a certain
extent it's true, not as a perspective patient perspective patient,
but but you know I look at someone and say, well,
you know, they could get that mold taken off, they
could maybe have a rhin up, last to a facelift,
give me a give me a couple of hours, I
can make you look absolutely beautiful. So yeah, it does happen,
(09:19):
and at parties. But what can I tell you? Sondra,
thank you so much for the phone call. I appreciate it.
I'm board certified plastic church and doctor Arthur Perry, host
of What's Your Wrinkle? Right here on w o R,
We're going to take a short break. Noah, eight hundred
three two one zero seven ten is the phone number.
When we come back, we'll finish that discussion, hopefully finish it. It
kind of drags on, doesn't it? About what we can
(09:41):
do this week? This week? Where the time is running
out if you have one of those June weddings, you're
going to all right, eight hundred three two one zero
seven ten, We'll be right back. Did you know that
your skincare may be hurting you more than helping you.
(10:03):
I'm board certified plastic surgeon, doctor Arthur Perry. The foundation
for looking good is clean, healthy skin. 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 my Daytime
(10:24):
SPF twenty cream in the evening, feed your skin with
my Powerhouse Nighttime serum. Nighttime has vitamin CNA, antioxidants and
skin brighteners. And if you like moisturizers, well, I've created
Soft Time with seramides and vitamin D. Throw away the
bags of useless products and try doctor Perry's Skincare. Join
(10:44):
the thousands of people whose skin is healthier. That's doctor
Perry's Skincare on Amazon dot com. And don't forget to
listen to my radio show right here on wor Every
Saturday evening at six pm.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
You are listening to What's Your Wrinkle with doctor Arthur Perry.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
So what's your rainkle? And I'm back. This is BORD
certified plastic surgeon, doctor Arthur Perry, host of What's Your Wrinkle?
Right here on w R eight hundred three two one
zero seven ten is the phone number. Give me a call.
We've only got it's a short show now, we're only
a half an hour. So if you want to call, yeah,
you got to do it pretty pretty quickly and be
(11:20):
ready like Sondra is at the beginning of the show.
All right, So yeah, springtime, it's the time for weddings, right,
It's you know, June is that big month July. Everybody
wants to get married when it's beautiful weather. And for
those of you who have daughters or sons getting married,
you know, you know what I'm talking about. You're you're
already planning. You're planning the venue, and you're planning the
(11:42):
what you're going to wear, and then you often will
look at yourself and say, jeez, I just wish I
did have this fat in my neck. You know, I'm
going to be in front of everybody, I've got photographs
to take and what am I going to do? And
you call me up and yes, it's February. I'll see
you this week. We'll do a consultation and then we've
(12:02):
got to really hustle to get your surgery on in
the next month or so because you need to see
an internist. That means you need medical clearance before surgery.
There's some laboratory tests if you're over sixty. I like
to get a stress test before facelifts, before eyelid lifts,
because you know, I want to be safe and you
want to be safe. We don't want anything to happen.
(12:23):
And every now and then we find something. You know,
you failed the stress test, and it's a good thing
we did it because if we hadn't done it, you
might have had what we call an event in the
operating room. We don't want that. We want it to
be very, very safe. So there's some things that you
need to do before we get into the operating room,
and we need to plan. But more importantly, or as importantly,
(12:46):
we need to have you fully recover. Let's say you're
gonna have a facelift. Let's say it's the joals. Let's
say it's some fat in the neck. Let's say you've
got a turkey gobbler and you look at yourself and
you say, I had this happen. You know, I'm sixty
years old. I feel thirty years old. I look in
the mirror, I look sixty. I look seventy. Well, all right,
(13:06):
so I can fix that, right, We can do that.
We can do it together under local anesthesia. That's what
a facelift is. It's local anesesia with sedation. And some
people do facelifts under general anesesia. I actually prefer them
under local anesthesia, a little more difficult for the plastic surgeon. However,
the reason I do that is because there's no nausea
(13:29):
for the most part. I mean, it's a very very
rare event to get nauseated after intravenous sedation. We only
use a few drugs, things like propofol and versa. Those
are the drugs that you've probably had if you've had
a colonoscopy, and something called ketamine, which is a very
safe drug when an anesthesiologist gives it. Not too safe
if you give it to yourself. But we use those
(13:50):
drugs because they do not cause nausea. We want to
avoid things like narcotics and anesthetic gases. Under general anesthesia.
Twenty percent of people get nauseated. Not a good thing
to have happen if you're going to have a facelift
or an eyelid lift, because if you have to vomit
not good. Your blood pressure goes up and there's a
higher chance of bleeding, and of course that's not a
(14:12):
good thing for a lot of reasons. You won't look
as good, your healing will be delayed, not a good thing.
So we want to avoid that. And when we do
this under sedation anesthesia, you're in and out the same day.
It takes about four hours to do a facelift, a
typical facelift, and then you go home. You look like
a mummy that first day. I take the dressings off
the next day, and the stitches out about a week
(14:32):
or so later, and it takes two weeks before you're
going to even be seen outside of your home, you know.
I mean, look nowadays around Manhattan people are walking around
with bandages. I saw someone in a robe this afternoon,
not kidding. In the East side of Manhattan. Someone was
walking in a bathrobe. Well, Manhattan. You can't get away
(14:53):
with that in Nebraska, I suppose, But in Manhattan it
even goes so here we are two weeks later the
a maybe a social event, that's okay. But if it's
going to be your wedding or your daughter's wedding or
your son's wedding, and you are everybody knows it's the parents, right,
everybody's looking at you. You're in all the photographs, and
(15:15):
you know you're being toasted along with the bride, along
with the groom, and so you want to look as
good as possible, and we don't want any issues to
be there. And so I say it takes a good
three months before you really really should go to a
wedding or your own wedding, or your daughter or son's wedding.
(15:38):
You know that's a long long time, maybe, but give
it some time because while in almost all cases everything
goes nice and smoothly, there can be little rumples in
the neck and little tiny bumps from very small amounts
of bleeding or very small amounts of swelling, and the
camera might catch that. So if you're in the public eye,
(16:00):
you'll really want to give it as much time as possible.
So if it's a facelift, if it's an eyelid lift,
give it really three months. That means you really have
to get in real soon and have your surgery within
about a month or so, because otherwise probably not the
best idea to have a facelift. Now, liposuction in the neck, well,
that recovery is much faster. That's about six weeks or so.
(16:21):
And certainly if you're having filler or boatox, you don't
have to worry about time. Course give it to a
week or so for the bruising to go away. From
filler and boatox, well, you know there's usually no bruising,
but it takes as long as two weeks to kick in.
So if you're really looking for a boatox effect, you'll
want to do it at least two weeks before the wedding,
(16:43):
if not longer. So that's what you need to do. Uh,
and you know there's still plenty of time. You don't
have to panic yet. And certainly if we're talking about
procedures that are hidden by clothing, like a breast augmentation
or a breast lift or a tummy tuck, well we
have a little bit more time because obviously no one
(17:03):
is going to be seeing those. We're going to be
wearing clothes, and so if there are minor imperfections or
things like that, or scars that are visible, they are
not going to be visible with most clothes, although I've
seen some of these new wedding gowns. You never know,
so maybe it all depends on what you're going to
be wearing. All right on board certified plastic Church and
(17:24):
doctor Arthur Perry, host of What's Your Wrinkled? Right here
on wor So those of you who are on TikTok,
is it back? Noah, I don't know. Well, there's a
TikTok influencer who died in a Mexico cosmetic surgery clinic
last week. What a terrible story. And I seem to
tell this story over and over again. And the person
who she went to no names here, but the person
(17:45):
she went to was not board certified, not a real
plastic chursion, not really capable of performing cosmetic surgery. She
died having Lippos suction, which is just such a terrible thing.
She had a cardiac arrest in the operating room. They
got her to the hospital three days later she died
twenty two. I'm sorry, twenty seven years old. It should
never happen. When I come back from the break, we're
(18:06):
going to review what you can do to avoid tragedies
like this really terrible? Can it be avoided in one
hundred percent of cases?
Speaker 6 (18:14):
No?
Speaker 3 (18:14):
But you really want to stack every everything in your favor,
and we'll talk about that when we come back. Eight
hundred three two one zero seven ten will be back
after these words. They say that sixty is the new fifty,
But while you may feel and act fifty, the mirror
(18:35):
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 a laser peel, well,
(18:58):
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 eight three three p e R R Y M D.
Check me out on the web at periplasticsurgery dot com.
And don't forget to listen to me doctor Arthur Perry.
(19:20):
Every Saturday evening at six pm right here on wo R.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
You're listening to What's your Wrinkle with Doctor Arthur Perry.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
What's your wrinkle? And what is your wrinkle? On board
certified plastic surge Doctor Arthur Perry. And a lot of
people wonder, am I just the guy on the radio? No,
I'm a real plastic surgeon. I've got an office on
eighty fifth and Park, beautiful office. I do minor procedures there.
I do boatoks and fillers and lasers, and the bigger
procedures like facelifts and eelid lifts and tummy talks and
(19:52):
rest augmentations and lifts and things of that nature. I
do over at Manhattan Iron Ear Hospital right here in Manhattan,
and some surger centers all so, but I like operating
over at Manhattan nine Year. It's a great hospital. But
we do what we can do in the office as
long as it's safe. And I don't do major surgery
in the office anymore. Used to in New Jersey I
(20:13):
had the actually the first operating room in an office
in the state of New Jersey in the early nineteen
nineties and never had an event, never had a problem,
thank god, and did it all for many, many years.
But you know, would I be operated on in a
doctor's office now, Yeah, I don't know, you know, Like
(20:33):
I like the security and the safety of a real
hospital or of a surgeon center where there's lots of
doctors and antesesiologists and nurses around, not just you know,
one or two doctors or one or two nurses. But
you know, I'm a kind of error on the safe side.
What can I tell you? All Right, So this TikTok influencer,
her name was Denise Reyes, and you know what happened?
(20:57):
What went wrong with her lip a suction? I don't know.
I don't, honestly don't know, and I'm not sure anyone knows.
Could have been a fat embolism, could have been ltokine toxicity,
toxicity from the anesthetic that was injected. Someone could have
penetrated a vital organ like believe it or not. In
the literature, every single organ has been penetrated in liposuction, heart, lung, liver,
(21:20):
terrible should it happen, of course not with a board
certified plastic surgeon. Look, anything can happen, there are accidents
that can happen, but the chance with someone who's well
trained it is exceedingly low. Liposuction, in fact, all of
cosmetic surgery is amazingly safe when it's done the right way,
and that means done by a board certified plastic surgeon
(21:41):
with a board certified antithesiologist, whether it's under general anesthesia
or intravenous anesthesia, and it's done in a facility that
is accredited, and you could pretty much be sure. Certainly
in the New York area, all the hospitals are accredited.
They're not going to be open if they're not in
the surgis centers. Also, in order to operate to be
(22:05):
in the American Society of Plastic Surgeons and the Aesthetic Society,
which I am in, in order to be in those societies,
we have to operate in accredited facilities. We're not allowed
to operate in unaccredited facilities, which is good for you.
And also, you know, our National Society wants people to
know that if you choose a surgeon in one of
(22:25):
those two organizations, the American Society Plastic Surgeons or the
Aesthetic Society. You're going to get a surgeon that practices
safe plastic surgery in a safe institution, in a safe
surgeon center that is accredited, and that means there's outside examiners.
They come in and they make sure it is safe.
But beyond that, you want to choose the doctor who
(22:47):
went to a good medical school, did a real residency
in plastic surgery, and a good residency you know, there
are good ones and there are some not so good ones,
and then is certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery.
Those are the minimum criteria that you should be looking
for to find a plastic surgery. Now, when you go
outside the country, when you go to Mexico, how on
(23:08):
earth are you going to know? How are you gonna
know what the training of that doctor is? I mean really,
and can you act absolutely communicate with that doctor. It's
hard enough. I'll tell you, you know, relatives of mine were
operated on in the last couple weeks, and I know
it's hard enough to grab the doctor that's in the
United States, that's in New York and really get a
lot of information out of the doctor. And those are
(23:31):
ones that speak English and are well trained. You know
they're good doctors. But everybody's busy. But how about going
down to Mexico going to another country? People are going
to Turkey for cosmetic surgery. Can you communicate? Can you
get proper information? I don't know. Do you know that
it's an accredited facility? Is the doctor well trained? Are
(23:51):
they using sterile equipment? You think you know it's obvious here,
but you never know. What about the stitches? Believe it
or not? There is There are companies that buy expired
products in the United States. They say they're using them
for veterinary medicine. But you know what, I would not
doubt if they appeared in other countries. How are you
(24:14):
gonna know? You can't know, So stay safe, you know,
I always say, you know, go and have your surgery
in the United States. Locally, Yes, I have out of
town people come in. I tell them they've got to
stay in the area for two weeks because we have
to be able to take care of you adequately. We
don't want you just flying in and going out two
days later. What happens if you do have a complication.
(24:35):
Because every plastic surgeon who's honest will tell you. Yeah,
they've had complications in their career. Of course, it's impossible
to be a surgeon without having complications. And for you,
any complication might occur. If it occurs, it's going to
be in the first day or two after surgery for
the most part, and certainly within two weeks of surgery.
And so stay around where you are being operated on
(24:57):
for a couple of weeks. If you can't do that,
then make sure you get operated on locally by the
guy the girl in the neighborhood, so you know you're
not going to San Francisco or something like that, and
then buzzing back to New York a few days later.
All right, there's so much to talk about. I always
have lots of topics to get to, but time runs
out very quickly. Here if you want more information about me,
(25:19):
the website is Perryplasticsurgery dot com. I've got offices in Somerset,
New Jersey, that's central New Jersey, and on Park Avenue
in Manhattan. I am here and you can give me
a call during the week two one, two seven five
three eighteen twenty two and two seven five three eighteen
twenty in New Jersey it's seven three two four two
two ninety six hundred and if you are interested in
(25:42):
the products that I talk about on the show, my
skincare line, you can get on Amazon dot com. Now
that's how you do at Amazon dot com. It's a
great service. Let me tell you can order tonight and
have it in a day or two. Thanks so much
for great engineering. No, we'll see everybody next week. Have
a good one. Bye bye now.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Preceding was a paid podcast. iHeartRadio's hosting of this podcast
constitutes neither an endorsement of the products offered or the
ideas expressed.
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!