- There's a lot of butt problems.
I'm Dr. Terry Dubrow.
- I'm Dr. Paul Nassif and we're here
to answer your burning questions about Botched.
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- How did you two team up?
- Oh that's a cute story.
- Let me start, I had sort of a
micro penis consultee in my office and he was my
first appointment. - And I was the doctor
examining him. - No no no.
He was my first appointment, he pulled it down,
I went whoa! - I'm Lebanese remember that.
- And so I said yeah. - I don't have that problem.
- I'm good but I'm not that good yet.
So come back when I've got a solution
to the mini micro penis phenomenon
and then maybe I can help you.
- How I met him, I get a call from my sister.
They go we met the funniest doctor in Newport Beach.
And they introduced me to Dr. Terry Dubrow.
- Do you think things like social media
and filters play a role in the type or
amount of surgeries you have? - You can answer that.
You already know that answer.
- Yeah I mean it's really changed.
We call it selfie dysmorphia where
patients are trying to look like an idealized
version of themselves not the way they actually look.
They bring their selfie photos in
and they say I wanna look like this.
Well that's a filter and last time I checked,
scalpel is not a filter, so
use the filter, don't use the scalpel.
What is the most common procedure
women ask for at your office?
What's the common procedure men ask for?
So women. - Botox.
- For me, breast revision surgery.
Men I would say Botox. - Botox.
- Why, despite after five seasons of Botched
haven't you been able to reduce your body fat?
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- Dr. Nassif go, no.
It seems like Brazilian butt lifts are a big craze now.
Can you tell us what the procedure is and the precautions
that come with it. - This is your wheelhouse.
- Okay so Brazilian butt lifts
are a procedure where you take fat
from one part of the body or several parts,
like the abdomen, the arms, the thighs,
and you wash the fat, prepare it
and you inject it in the buttock.
It's the fastest growing procedure in plastic surgery.
It's also the most dangerous and it's turning out
to be the most fatal, in fact,
it's so fatal it's even more fatal
than like an appendectomy or a gallbladder operation.
We think that this operation should be banned.
It's just too dangerous, the blood vessels
of the butt are very fragile, very small,
and they're a very short distance
from the blood vessels that lead
to your heart and lungs, don't do it.
Do you ever encounter a botched surgery
so extreme it made you nervous to perform on them.
- Oh god, that's like, we do, - Every one!
- That's very routine for us.
- The botched surgeries, particularly season five,
are so extreme because our skill level has gone up
so they really make us nervous,
because at the end of the day,
we're trying to redefine impossible.
Now the impossible seems to be more possible.
Don't you agree? - Oh I like that.
- That was pretty good right? - That was very nice.
That was good
- Who are the most common celebrity patients
used as a reference for the type of work they want done?
So in our office, let's say four years
and beyond, that was a huge thing.
Whether it was Brad Pitt or Angelina Jolie.
But now it's not that anymore.
It's just like we spoke about.
It's the selfie dysmorphia,
where they have Facetune go in
and change their whole complexion especially
and that's what, they want a
better looking version of themself.
- Okay interesting answer, but to answer
the actual question. - oh then you have
an answer for that. - As to who are
the celebrities, Meghan Markle - I don't think--
Kate Middleton, Kate Middleton - Kate Middleton.
We used to have about - Those are the two.
- Her rhinoplasty, her nose. - Those are the two.
- Actually she didn't have one but she has
a beautiful nose, a little bit more natural.
- Okay so based on this one, I'm gonna ask the next one.
Okay 'cause that one, what made you want
to take on botched cases, you answer that one, go.
- So I was sitting with the producers of a Housewives
years ago and we just finished doing the Housewives.
So the two of us were talking
and I said why don't we think about
taking patients who have had very bad plastic surgery
and trying to fix them on TV?
I said well we need someone else that's gonna help me,
my good old buddy, Terry Dubrow.
So I called him, he was sick in bed, 103 fever.
And he goes that's the stupidest idea I've ever heard.
Then look where we are now, season five
and now we're filming season six.
- Yeah crazy, can you describe one of the most
bizarre botched surgeries you've ever dealt with?
So right now there's a huge explosion
in buttock augmentation where people are taking
fat from their abdomen and injecting their buttock.
The problem is, one, it's very dangerous
and two, to get enough fat to actually
make the buttock bigger cosmetic surgeons are overdoing it.
They're taking so much more than they should
and it's causing scarring and deformities
of the areas they're taking it from.
So not only are we having problems
with the liposuctioned areas,
but once you put it in the butt
and it dies and it's a problem.
Wait till you see the next three or four
or five episodes coming up on Botched
because there's a lot of butt problems.
Were you just falling asleep?
Was the eye? - No!
- Did you see the eyes - No I was not.
- come down, was there a moment of this in the middle
of my thing? - But I have noticed,
so when I'm watching Botched this season,
I've looked at myself a few times.
- And you're falling asleep. - And I'm falling asleep.
- What's the difference between a
cosmetic surgeon and a plastic surgeon?
This is critical, one of the main reasons why--
- We do botched.
- Botched procedures are exploding, go.
- You can actually take a weekend course
and call yourself a cosmetic surgeon.
- Even if you're a radiologist.
- A plastic surgeon, remember we have residencies
that train in these procedures and then fellowships.
So we are specialists in the plastic surgery arena.
- We hear, my dentist did my nose job,
but my dentist is a cosmetic surgeon.
I have news for you, if your doctor
calls himself a cosmetic surgeon,
that may be a big red flag.
- So you always wanna find out
when you're doing an investigation
what type of doctor are you going to
and are they board certified in that specialty?
- The final one is what was your first botched surgery?
There was a case where this woman
had had like 14 breast surgeries
and her left breast was a shriveled up,
scarred down knuckle of a breast
and the right one was like vertically
or, you know, this one was sort of this thing
and this one looked like a crab claw.
And they said go ahead fix it, go.
What Botched has taught us is how to fix the impossible
but I will tell you season five
is completely different 'cause we're doing
people who have congenital deformities,
traumatic deformities, and bad plastic surgery.
It's even harder and this season is weirdly funnier.
And he's got a new girlfriend and she's 28.
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So she freaked the first time he took his teeth out
and put it on the bedside glass you know, and she went
what is that? - Wonderful,
wonderful girl. - He said that's my dentures.
That's what it is. - Love of my life, Brittney.
- Yeah she's awesome. - Sweetest woman.
Doesn't matter about the age. - And she's
very tolerant. - Get over it.
- Very tolerant. - Best friend.
- 'Cause she tolerated - Sweet, wonderful
- the dentures - beautiful.
- in the glass by the bed.
- This has been great.
- Yeah it was a lot of fun. - I had fun.
- Thanks so much Buzzfeed, we really enjoyed it.
Make sure you watch season five of Botched at nine--
- 9 p.m. Eastern, 8 p.m Central
Wednesdays only on E - on E, yeah.
- Buh-bye! - Bye!
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