all right cosmetic surgery is one of the most complex topics and here to
enlighten us on the industry and their expertise are dr. Robert Sigal and dr.
Byron Poindexter from Reston's Austin Weston Center for cosmetic surgery we
welcome you to the show and this is a great topic and I think for our viewers
they might there about a lot of questions about this so let's start with
what makes your practice different than others the main thing I think is kind of
the way we're put together as a group of four surgeons in one place we're always
at the same location we operate at our office facility and we're really quite a
team you know there are other practices where they may have two or three
surgeons that are part of their group but they don't act quite the same way we
do sometimes we get them coming to us and asking questions what would you do
and as I could you talk to your partner and I know we talk all the time let me
get to your point I mean I've known you for 20 years we've been partners for 20
years operating in the same space and there's a couple of things out of that
that you get like number one I get to see I get a consult from him and the two
other partners whenever I need one and it's good to have that right but more
importantly almost kid the nurses in the office and I see his results and his
results are excellent and if I don't get my results to meet his results believe
me I hear about it right and then the good news is I can ask them and we share
our tips all the time and that makes us better what are some of the most common
procedures that patients are requesting these days I think the most common
things that we see are the same things that nationally are the most common
breast augmentations liposuction we do a lot of that and then we do a lot of
facial surgery as well we do more cosmetic facial surgery facelifts
rhinoplasty eyelid surgery than most other surgeons in the area probably
about three times as much as the usual plastic surgeon if you if you look at
all the statistics for surgeries done by surgeons that are plastic surgeons that
just focus on cosmetic surgery because there's reconstructive surgery too but
just cosmetic surgery if you look at all the national data like Byrons talking
about we do on average three times the number
per surgeon so each of us does three times the number and that adds up I mind 25
years of that there's 80 combined years of experience in ou r practice and that
all just gets dispersed amongst all of us um Hollywood can sometimes give
plastic surgery a bad name because there's the people who take it to the
extreme and and so what what is your message people that are like oh that's
so Hollywood well actually that's a great answer that's so hot so Hollywood
because it's very different here people in the DC metro area people on these
custom much more conservative they don't want that look and that's not what we
provide we listen to them and they say you know what I want to look natural I
want to look like nothing's been done to us that's fantastic cosmetic surgery it
should look look should not look like something has been done and so we don't
go Hollywood the go to DC DC is a very hardworking community it's very
political community to a large degree you can't look like you're done here
right you can and you know if you looked against nationally look at the
statistics breast implants for example there are average cc's volumes that are
done in different parts of the country in LA it's around 400 CCS in DC it's
about 100 ccs less than that sounds more concerned much more conservative much
more tailored easier to recover from we've got some before and after pictures
to take a look at that you guys have here and what is this oh this this is a
lower face of procedure working on the jowls and the neck and this is an
example of what we were talking about where you know we collaborated in a
sense I stole some techniques from dr. Poindexter and dr. Weston and sort of
combined them into something that became known as a FaceTime facelift so that we
don't need to make a cut under the chin to achieve that that neckline and
jawline and there's the after and for so many people you must see people that
these are life-changing procedures that you are helping them with whether it's a
confidence issue or something what's that like for you guys to be able to do
that for people Oh it's fantastic I mean it's actually what makes it worth doing just
going in and doing the job and making you know bigger breasts or smaller
breasts or a tighter face that's a job but when you go in and you can actually
make a difference in somebody life and they come to you afterward to
say man that just was a huge change that was huge for me I'm so much more
confident now then it makes me happy about going to work another before and
after here what are we seeing here same kind of thing yeah so here you're going
to see if we look at the face we're going to look at the brows the upper
lids that lower lids the cheek in the neck and we're going to look at how is
this face in harmony or not in harmony so we see a little bit of jowling some
laxity in the neck and a little bit of a tired look around the eyes and then so
here you this is a you see this this is a face that's in harmony that does not
look operating this girls only 10 days out from surgery with this picture and
that's one of the things you know we have to get them back into the workplace
we have to get them back into their jobs into their lives quickly and looking
good so we modified techniques and recover and medicines to make sure that
they come out well that's a great question i feel like people may think
recovery time is going to take a long time as it gotten as we've learned more
in the industry gotten better with recovery time yeah they've absolutely yes some
of its even the anesthesia we've made changes that past year to our anesthesia
regimen we have our owe anesthesia staff that the decreases pain makes it easier less
anxiety throughout the process and they heal faster all right real quickly final
seconds here the phone numbers on the screen if people want to get started
just give them a call right now absolutely or go to the website Austin
Weston.com you can see how it's spelled actually here at the bottom of the
screen oh we have a wonderful podcast plastic surgery nation.com that explains
some of the things about how to pick a plastic surgeon and there's so many
questions about that that's a great place to start excellent gentlemen thank
you for coming in okay come back again and talk to our great stuff excellent we
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