- We are here with Rebeca, Rebeca is from Panama,
and we had the privilege of doing a
full facial rejuvenation on her three months ago.
So she came back for a three month visit,
and we took the opportunity to sit down
and just have a quick visit
and share some of her experiences with everyone.
So Rebeca, before we get into the exact procedures,
what was your motivation that you felt
that brought you here in the first place?
- I've been looking for 10 years actually,
I've been going through, I've seen at least 30 doctors,
and I've never felt comfortable.
I always wanted to do something,
I know with age my face has sort of fell.
I'm very happy because I feel it's given me
a lot more self-assurance, I feel much better with myself.
I was an attractive girl
and I always looked younger than what I really was,
and yet suddenly I'm 61 and I look like an old lady.
Everything is dropping, my jaws are dropping, my neck.
You see all the work he's done, everything is so natural,
I immediately booked my surgery and I don't regret it,
I'm very, very happy.
- I appreciate it.
Trust is obviously such an important thing
it's such a paramount quality
to have in the relationship at the end of the day,
because you're giving me your face
- Exactly. - and expecting me to--
- As I've said I've seen doctors
in other parts of the United States, in Colombia
that they're very well known for plastic surgery,
in Europe, and I have not felt the way I felt with you
when I first met you.
And I was totally, you do so much, so I said to you before,
"You just do whatever you want to do,
"I trust you, you do whatever you need to do",
and so he did.
- Ah, very sweet.
And obviously that's the thing that inspires me,
touches me so much, to be able to offer these outcomes.
- Yeah.
- So specifically what we did for Rebeca is
I performed a Vertical Restore as the foundation.
She did describe her soft tissues of her
lateral brow, mid-face, jawline and neck
were all loosening up,
and so we did the Vertical Restore
to bring everything back up,
and you can see this beautiful jaw line,
no laxity in the neck whatsoever,
mid-face is up, lateral brows are in the right position.
So that set the foundation.
And then we went ahead and did the fat transfer
in the various areas of the face,
from the temple, upper eyelids, lower eyelids, mid-face,
nasolabial folds and around the mouth,
and a little bit in the lip actually.
And that gave that volume back,
that created that refreshed look again.
And then we did a lip lift,
and we shortened the lip by anywhere from
four to six millimeters
to create a better balance to the mid-face,
because like everything else gets longer
so there's the lip as well.
So we created a improved proportion of the upper lip
relative to the rest of the face with a lip lift.
And then we performed a laser resurfacing
to just remove any sun damage or fine lines and wrinkles
that had built up over the years
with a Contour TRL Erbium Yag laser,
and then we topped it off
with a nice little earlobe reduction
and actually that was a nice finishing touch
to the overall outcome
because your earlobes had elongated
from earrings and just age in general
and shortening the earlobe back up again
was a nice way of just making continuity between everything.
And it's now three months and obviously
she looks gorgeous and feels great.
And I always tell patients the real purpose of this
is to make you look as young as you feel,
and is that something you feel like you can relate to?
- Oh, definitely yeah, because I always felt very young,
but then when I looked in the mirror
my face didn't go with how I felt.
- Yeah. - As young as I felt.
So I do feel, I feel fantastic.
- Yeah.
- And the other thing about it is
the people that always see me,
"Wow you're looking great, what have you done?"
They can't really put their finger on what I've done.
I said, "Oh, I've gained 20 pounds",
and they said, "Wow, really suits you,
"you look fantastic."
So that also is great because
I don't have this pulled back tight look,
it's a very soft natural look, very young looking
but it doesn't look like I've had a face lift,
so I'm really, really happy with it Dr. Karam.
- Yeah, I appreciate that my dear,
thank you so much, yeah.
- Thank you very, very much.
- Thank you for sharing your journey
with our perspective future patients,
and helping getting the good word out,
and giving that confidence that people need.
- And all the experience, at the clinic,
the attention, the actual surgery was fantastic.
I mean I talked to you during the surgery,
that was another positive thing for me,
that I didn't have to be total anesthesia,
it was done with...
- IV sedation, yeah.
- Yeah. IV sedation, and I didn't feel a thing,
I had absolutely no pain,
and I really didn't have pain afterwards either.
There was a lot of swelling
but every week it was a big change in my swelling
and so, all around the whole team,
you have a fantastic team.
- We do, yeah.
- And I just think you're wonderful,
and you've got to get out there
and let everybody know about it, okay.
- Thank you my dear, I really, really appreciate that.