Straight Talk about Cosmetic Surgery with Dr. Arthur Perry

The skincare industry is constantly looking for some new ingredient that will promise to take 20 years off of your aging face.  From placenta to charcoal to snail mucous to exosomes... and now it's salmon sperm.  Really?  Do you think DNA from salmon really can make you look younger?  Tune in before spending (wasting?) your money on the latest trend.  And, in this show, we discuss methods of lightening skin and evening out skin tone.  And we discuss why your surgeon shouldn't have more than 1 glass of wine before operating on you...

We call them "Botox" but there's really 6 different botulinum toxins now - Botox was the first one and so its name is like "Kleenex" for tissues.  But Xeomin, Dysport, Jeuveau, Daxxify, and now Letybo are all competing for a piece of the lucrative market.  It turns out that the industry leader Botox might not be the best "Botox" after all.  Tune in to find out which product wins the prize for the fastest onset and the longest duration botulinum toxin.  

An increasing number of celebrities are "coming out" with their cosmetic surgery.  Kylie Jenner had a breast augmentation and Barbara Corcoran has nearly everything else!  On this show we discuss "coming out" with your cosmetic surgery.  We also discussed the combined use of fractionated CO2 laser along with Ulthera.

A small chin is also called a "weak chin".  That pretty much says it all, doesn't it?  Small chins give the impression of a weak personality and make noses appear larger.  On today's show, we discuss how I perform silicone chin implants and, alternatively, how I inject filler into chins for people who don't want surgery.  Tune in.  

Did Kim Kardashian have a facelift?  That's the buzz on the Internet.  If she did, she had a well executed procedure, since this 68 year old woman is looking quite good.  On this show, we discuss how most modern plastic surgeons are skilled at performing excellent facelifts and how consumers can choose an excellent surgeon.

Do you really think all of those "influencers" look that beautiful?  Nah.  They just are great at using filters for their  images.  And that was before AI.  Now, images and even video can have everyone looking beautiful for the web.  But what happens when you bring your plastic surgeon an altered image and ask to look like that?  It's not so easy.  On today's show, we discuss that as well as give you the real truth about exosomes in skin care.

Plastic surgeons have become experts at marketing.  Every week there seems to be another name for a procedure like the Vampire facelift, or the liquid facelift, or the Brazilian Butt Lift or so many others.  This week, it was the "baby rhinoplasty".  Most of these funny names are simply marketing efforts to increase traffic in plastic surgeon's offices.  On this show, we discuss how the rhinoplasty is the most difficult procedure in cosmetic surgery and how consumers should be wary of marketing terms.

Every woman will undergo menopause.  And menopause is associated with accelerated aging.  Plain and simple, your skin will look older when you reach menopause.  Hormone replacement therapy is very controversial - but what about topically applied estrogen creams?  On this episode, we discuss the pros and cons of using estrogen on the skin.  

Breast augmentations, lifts, and reductions are collectively the most popular procedures in cosmetic surgery.  On today's show, we discuss how plastic surgeons improve the shape and size of the breast through these various procedures.  We also discuss how lasers are used to reduce red marks in the skin.  

The wildly popular GLP1 drugs - you know them as Ozempic and Zepbound - cause predictable weight loss.  So plastic surgeons lift and tighten formerly overstretched skin.  It turns out that wound openings and infections are twice as likely if you've used those drugs.  The cause?  Listen to this show to learn why and how to stay safe if you're planning on surgery.