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This is the Art Beauty podcast,
where we are

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always reaching for truth in beauty.

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Remember, the brands and the people on
the show aren't paying to be here.

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So we get to asking the questions
we know you want answered

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because you deserve to be informed
so you can make the best decisions

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for yourself.

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With that said, I'm Amber Milt and today
my fabulous co-host is Dr.

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Dare Ajibade.

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He is a plastic surgeon
practicing in the DC area.

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And today we are going to get all into why

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this new year
and this time specifically might be

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the best time to get that nip and tuck
you've been considering.

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Before we get started, Dr.

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Dare how's it going?

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It's going really well.

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Thanks for having me, Amber.

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Thank you for having us.

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And thank you for being on the show
with us today.

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Rather,
I know you were with patients all day,

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so we do appreciate your time
and I wanted to get right into it.

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It is the new year.

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We've gotten through the holidays.

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You know, all of that madness, you know,
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a lot of people start to think
New Year, new you.

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So whether it's like a new diet,
getting into a gym routine

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and then there's all of us who are thinking, wait a minute, maybe it's time to

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really consider

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that procedure I wanted done.

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But there is actually some benefit

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to doing it in the winter too,
doing these procedures.

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So I'm wondering if you could start off
you know, let's just start at the top.

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What are what are one of the benefits
that we have for choosing

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this time of year
as opposed to the summer spring?

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Warmer temperatures?

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Awesome. I think you're absolutely right.

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There's never a bad time to feel your best
or look your best.

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But yes, there are some advantages
to this time of the year,

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especially the cold or winter month,
to get your cosmetic surgery body control.

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Right.

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So let's get into it.

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One, a lot of people

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save their holidays,
their time off, their pets, vacation

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to sort of the end of the year,
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So whether to be able
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or just kind of thinking of what to do
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in the summer, they want to be able
to go away in the winter.

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So a lot of people tend to have time
available during the winter months.

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And as you know, there are a couple of
things that are very important to have.

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One you have in cosmetic surgery,
obviously the finances

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and also time to recover.

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So if you have time off and available

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time from work and you can recover nicely
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rushing back to work, it's very beneficial
to patients and to their recovery.

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So, you know, I mean, I know that
we're already into the new year.

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We just started the new Year and some
people might be thinking, wait a minute,

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how much time do I need to block?

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But actually this is a really great time
because most of us are Vacation

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has started in plastic surgery
like any other luxury or feel

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good thing that you're going to do really
does involve a little bit of planning.

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And then there's also a few carryover
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What better way to spend them.

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But but how long
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I know all different
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what's a ballpark for recovery?

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It's a great question.

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So as you know it,

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you already mentioned it
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And here at GMAC, plastic surgery,
we're very particular

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about really individualizing care.

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You know, not just the type of surgery,
but the patient.

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It's really important to take
the actual patient into consideration.

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Their, you know,
whether it's their pain tolerance

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or the type of work that they do
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Obviously,
the type of surgery they're doing.

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But in general, for the most part,
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and all you walk in an office,

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usually about a week or so is a good time

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to kind of give for yourself.

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maybe standing on your feet
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you might want to give yourself a little
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Certainly if you're doing surgery
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So we have to make a big cuts
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and it's best
to not go back to work onto that.

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Drainage tubes are out
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having to deal with,
you know, accessories that are not cute.

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So it's very important
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Most of the time when we use
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So I encourage patients to weigh
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Give yourself maybe a buffer of a week.

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It's much easier.

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We find that if you take more time off

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and you were ready to go back early
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from a place of employment and say,
Listen, I come back now,

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people are always happy
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but it's often much harder to say, Hey,
I only took two weeks off.

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Can I have another week?

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So yeah, that's sort of the way
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Certain liposuction
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for recovery excision type cases,

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anything that involves deeper tissue.

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particularly to butt and Bebe allows,

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is that when we shape the waist
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and we transfer a fat to the butt

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in the hips area to augment that to fix
any area of destruction,

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deficiency
improves symmetry and things like that.

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Well, we transfer fat to any area.

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You cannot put pressure in that area
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We put it to a place where it needs
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So we're very particular about
protecting it for at least two weeks.

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So if you get a bill
and you need to see sit at work

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all day for 8 to 12 hours,
it's not a good idea to go back.

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So those are the type of things
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So make sure, you know, I think it's so
important to really talk to your surgeon.

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And really, that's the time to not be shy,
to ask the particulars,

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to share the type of work that you do,
because that's a great point.

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I mean, if you have to sit which many,

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many office jobs are
I mean, many jobs these days are,

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it doesn't matter if you can be remote,
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That's got to be tough
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yes, you can lay on your tummy,
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They have different devices
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can sit on that doesn't
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They have foam
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a rectangle, pillows that you sit on,
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There's different things that we could do
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where you can't stay at all
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you still cannot sit directly on the butt
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So there are things we can do.

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But to your point, you absolutely right.

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This cosmetic surgery, esthetic

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procedures,

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they are an investment in yourself
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They cost time.

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You cannot be shy if you're not shy.

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Going to buy a house,
you know, you pick out the kitchen.

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Todd The
the splash board, you know, the curtains.

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You're not shy about that.

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You shouldn't be shy
about the most important thing you have,

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which is your body.

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It's one you only get one.

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You're not getting another one.

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We can make it better,
but you're not getting another one.

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So you can't be shy about that.

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It's very important to be able to go
to a plastic surgeon or cosmetic surgeon

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that you can relate to, that understands
you and your esthetic sense

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and what's really important
that be able to translate

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the vision
that you have into a finished product.

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Yes, That relationship with your surgeon
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You know, I want to get on to to
because I know we were talking

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specifically with like liposuction.

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This time
of year might be really good, too,

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because you have to wear this compression
garments right?

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You you, you nailed it.

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So that's another reason
why this time of the year is important

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is because of how you have to recover,

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particularly liposuction, lipo, sculpting,
fat transfer

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to any time you do those procedures.

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Basically what we do is
we separate the layers of your tissue.

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So for the most part,
if you think about it, the muscle,

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the skin, the fat,
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and we go to remove fat to create contour
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you would basically separate
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back down flat and smooth out
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We need to compress that.

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and the separation
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you probably don't want to wear it
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but I love you said before,
any time of year is a good time to do it.

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But but certainly it's easier.

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You know,
you're not dealing with the heat.

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You're also not dealing with sweat
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And let's be honest, you can go out in a
big baggy sweater and nobody's got it now.

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Nobody has to know. Nobody's
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And then, you know, you recover.

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It's like nothing ever happened.

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I love that. So.

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So what are some of the other reasons

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that you find and that your patients
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like this in in the in the colder months.

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of the things that we are very particular
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is how your incision
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It is cosmetic surgery, after all.

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So we want it to be nice.

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Fine, not res, not dark, not discolored.

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One of the biggest thing that could change
the way a scar look is sun exposure.

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So during the summer months,
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how much sun you get because we it's hot.

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You want to be in a bikini,
you want to be by the pool, you have scars

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exposed, you get some exposure
so it can really affect your scar.

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However, in the winter months,
you're not going out in a bikini.

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You're you know, you're covered up and
it's it's okay because you're recovering.

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And this allows you to scar to heal
without any unnecessary sun, sun exposure

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that will impact the the effect
or that that result of your scarring.

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Amazing.

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And if you are doing something like this,

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make sure that you are wearing that SPF
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because we want that
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to your point, even in the winter months,

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we encourage patients
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because besides the cosmetics, we know
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sun, sun damage that could lead to cancer
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And also to which lead to skin
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But having the sunscreen
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months, it's very important for that.

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I'm so glad you said that.

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And even indoors,
we we preach that a lot on this podcast.

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You should wear sunscreen
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even if you're just going to be indoors

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like I have all day
wearing sunscreen right now.

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Anything else that you feel like really?

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People love doing it this time of year?

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due to the garment and the

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and the scarring.

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The other thing that we don't think

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of as much,
but it's very important to the patient

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is what you might see we kind of refer

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to as the big reveal.

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It's very it's very important for patients

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to be able to sort of
come out at the end of, you know,

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two or three months of recovering
and be able to show off their new body.

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So the winter months is the perfect time
to sort of hibernate,

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hide away, like you said,
big baggy clothes.

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You're recovering,
you have compression underneath.

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People don't know.

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And then you come spring some months,
you're

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now in your nice, you know, revealing,

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you know, short shorts, midriffs, bikini.

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You're planning vacation.

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So that's a really important part
of why people really enjoy and love

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kind of advent surgery
at this time of the month.

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I love that you brought that up.

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Who's reading that reveal right?

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And that bangin bod, You know,
you have to kind of work backwards

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and it's a good time to think about
if you've got big events like a graduation

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or your wedding or I mean, just because.

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Right.

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Just because you want to feel better
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it does take a couple of months,
even with the best liposuction.

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Right.

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They say it's a couple of months before
you're going to notice those full results.

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So I we we do a lot of those surgeries.

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Patients are always happy.

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However, I
you know, it's really important to have

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realistic expectations

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and to be on the same page
in terms of that expectations.

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Everybody heals differently.

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Your swelling, your bruising,
take different times to two to resolve.

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So it's very important for patients
to know that your final result with

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cosmetic surgery, most cosmetic surgery
takes about 3 to 6 months.

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Okay.

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I expect you to see a result immediately.

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A different immediately by your final
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This does a few things.

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It alleviates
a lot of anxiety for patients.

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They're not. my God. Is this is it's all.

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So you just relax 3 to 6 months,
you know, It's okay.

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You're still swollen.

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I find that most people,
the most swollen around the two week mark,

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which goes down around about four weeks,

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so about 50% of the peak

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by six weeks to three months.

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Most 75 to 80% of the seven has gone.

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What we find is, especially
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for sculpting HD liposuction,
when we use different technology

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to tighten the skin so we get as much skin

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that we have to remove,
it might take longer for the swelling.

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We find that you might have about 10
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even up to six months,
depending on how well you compress.

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And so it's really important for patients
to not be stressed

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and worry about their final result,
you know, in those early months.

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And so understand
that it takes 3 to 6 months.

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Some surgeries like rhinoplasty takes

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swelling, might be there for a year,
sometimes up to two years,

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depending on the technique
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So it's really important for, again,
you have realistic

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conversation
and direct conversation with your surgeon,

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make sure that they understand
you, your expectations,

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and and they're able to guide you in
not only the appropriate surgery,

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but how best to
recover without any issues.

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That's great advice.

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You know, before I let you go,
can I ask you, are there certain

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procedures
that you see more of this time of year?

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So, yes,

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I think not so much
this more this time of the year.

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But what we we're starting to see
certain trends a lot lately.

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And I think some of the trends you're
seeing is people are looking for more.

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What was the classic natural look?

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They want to look special.

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They want to be able to see that
this I got my money's worth,

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but they don't want to look so-called
different, Right?

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They want to look like themself
just better.

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So when looking into more natural look,
the baby out

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doesn't have to be overly too big, but
it's about contour and it's about shape.

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And the other thing is that we've seen
a trend of is combination therapy.

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How do we get the most for less,

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not necessarily in terms of pricing,

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but in terms of recovering
and the toll on your body.

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So, for example,

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mommy makeovers are a big thing.

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Like recently we've been moving towards
like how do we get the same result

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or at least close to the same result
without having to have this

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the same length of scar?

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So if I could do liposuction on you,
reduce your fat, control your waist

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and tighten your skin without having
to actually do a tummy tuck.

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People love that.

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I know, right?

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So and how do we do that?

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How are we doing?

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The tightening and.

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The biggest technology
in cosmetic and esthetic surgery

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right now is radiofrequency

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radiofrequency technology.

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Tighten skin.

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We can use it externally.

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And what you probably heard of Morpheus,

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which is the big thing right now,
which goes as a starter, it's

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essentially microneedle couple.

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What radiofrequency
helps with every skin condition,

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whether it's color, tone, laxity,

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fine lines, wrinkle. So

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scarring, hypertrophic,

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scarring, so resurfacing,

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we can use it to target
pretty much everything.

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How Padroes is, it's very good.

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We have other radiofrequency technology,
whereas body type and face

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type from a mode or Renew Nubian,

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what used to be known as jade plasma.

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We could use those to tighten
underneath the skin

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so contoured the jawline to really shape
the jawline.

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We've gone at the margin myself
in the past five years.

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We've gone from like really
having to doing a full on less than a full

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thigh lift because the scar from left goes
from elbow to armpit and the scarf.

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With that,
let's go from knee to your groin.

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We don't have to do as many
of those anymore because we could just do

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liposuction and skin tightening

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and patient get just as good
if not better, results.

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Wow. Wow.

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You know,

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I would love to bring you back on to talk
about that because I feel like from afar.

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Listen, we keep you honest here
from what I've seen here

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with like a lot of the RF skin
tightening, it's okay.

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But if you're taking out a lot of fat
and you're going to have a lot of skin, I

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think that there

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are. I love to you know what?

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I'm going to go
and take a look at these results

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because I feel like it
it it's not the same as getting the cut.

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So to your point, as we talked about,
it's it's about patient selection.

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It's about having the surgeon
that understands the technology

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very fast, versatile with the technology
and understands

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the patient
and the patient. Esthetic sense.

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Yeah.

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If I have a patient that comes in that
says, listen, I know I need a tummy tuck,

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I don't want a tummy tuck, I don't want
the scar, I don't want the downtime.

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But what can you do for me to get me
as close to the result as possible?

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I tell them, Listen, we could do
lipo sculpting,

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skin tightening, and if you want,
we could do a small scale decision

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on the lower abdomen
that's just a little longer than you had

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your C-section scar and a mini tummy tuck
that will get rid

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of as much skin as possible underneath
and will tighten the rest.

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And people love that.

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Yeah, I had a young lady, young

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65, that was like, I don't want

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sorry, excuse me,

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I don't want to a long scar on my thigh,
but I want to look better.

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I want to wear a bikini.

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So what we did was we did

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circumferential liposuction of the thigh,

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liposuction of the inner thigh,

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skin tightening all around.

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And we were left to a little bit of excess
skin,

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just blast,
you know, just in the groin area.

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So we took just a little bit
of groin incision

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right along the crease that when she's

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wearing a two piece bikini,
you can't see. Wow.

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And see as you know, she wanted a gap.

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She has a gap.

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All her loose skin is gone.

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I had a young lady after some

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weight loss.

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Similarly, she had excess skin.

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She didn't want the long scar.
She's young.

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She's in her twenties.

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We did a similar thing, liposuction.

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We had a little bit of skin left.

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We were able to just make
a little bit of incision

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in the armpit, done something like. That.

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And yet the technology has become so good

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that I understand what you're saying
with like a little bit of an incision.

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We can really help to minimize.

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You don't have that hip to hip and beyond.

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Dr. Ivory, I

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just want to thank you so much
for being on here with us today.

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If people want to know more about you,

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if they want to find you,
what's the best place for them to go?

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Where?

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Located at 8714 and Georgia
Avenue here in Silver Springs.

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They can find us on social media,
just type in Jamachi

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And our website is Jamachi.com.

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Amazing.

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And I want to wish
you such a Happy New Year.

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Thank you for spending your time
with us today.

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And of course, you at home,
if you have questions that you want me

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to pass on to the doctor or his team, I'm
absolutely happy to do that.

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You can email me
at hello@artbeautypodcast.com.

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You can find us on Facebook, Instagram
and YouTube @ArtBeautypodcast. And

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as always, we will see you next Tuesday,
hopefully feeling a little bit more

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like you
can you can take that plunge right now.

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We give you permission. Awesome.

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Thanks for having me. Thank you.

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Happy holidays.

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All right.