Beverly Hills Nasal and Facial Cosmetic Surgeon
Beverly Hills Nasal and Facial Cosmetic Surgeon -
In January, 2004, a television reality show, Dr. 90210, first aired.
The primary “news hook” for the show was the outlandish, satirical FX program, Nip/Tuck, which showed outrageous cosmetic plastic surgery performed by equally outrageous T.V. surgeons who had no ethics, morality or sense of legal boundaries.
A few flight-of-fancy Nip/Tuck episodes:
- One featured cosmetic surgery on an ape.
- Another showed plastic surgery forced on a woman and her son in witness protection. In reality, plastic surgery won’t make you unrecognizable; even teens must want cosmetic surgery for their own reasons.
- A plastic surgeon ready to perform rhinoplasty on a patient already on the table carried only a bone saw, large enough to take off an arm or a leg. Actually, rhinoplasty requires the smallest and most delicate of instruments. Plus, rhinoplasty, rhinoplasty revision or other nose surgery is a procedure where less is almost always more.
After a year of that, the “E” channel figured the public would enjoy a behind-the-scenes reality program, showing actual, live patients interacting with real Beverly Hills plastic surgeons.
First aired in 2004, Dr. 90210 found an eager audience and became a hit.
While Robert Rey M.D. was first followed and filmed, we were next. Soon Dr. Ellenbogen joined in.
(Watch the episodes featuring Cosmetic Surgery Specialist Group of Beverly Hills and Robert Kotler, M.D.)
In succeeding years, some 14 other Beverly Hills plastic surgeons were featured in regular and occasional segments.
We were proud to show cosmetic plastic surgery as it is actually performed, with its many cosmetic surgery patient safeguards and professional codes for surgeons.
In October 2008, Dr. 90210 concluded its run and went off the air. Or so we thought.
But the series continued being shown in 22 other nations including the United Arab Emirates where the program and its surgeons became household words.
Care to guess what came next? Dr. 90210 surgeons practicing in Dubai, known as the Las Vegas of the Middle East.
We were also approached to be one of their numbers but turned it down because we frequently see patients from the Middle East for middle eastern rhinoplasty, functional nose surgery and other procedures.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, former Dr. 90210 doctors’ date books fill fast, requiring them to work from 7 a.m. to midnight for four or five days. And that’s after a 14 to 16 hour flight from the U.S. with another such flight home.