Surgeons, ah, Cutting Up
The new season of E! Channel’s Botched continues, but becomes more of a circus sideshow of odd and freak characters rather than providing much useful information for people seriously interested in going ahead with cosmetic plastic surgery and avoiding botched outcome.
The bottom line: carefully investigate and carefully choose plastic surgeons.
(Read more about finding an excellent plastic surgeon.)
Perhaps “freak character” is unkind but we’ve already seen a woman who calls herself New York asking for a 4th breast surgery; a 47-year-old transgender woman who had a botched procedure when cement was injected into her face and, now, a woman who wants plastic surgery to look like a blow-up doll. (Seriously! We are not making this up!)
On episode 5 of season 2, we get a seemingly real sideshow treat when a woman with 2,000cc implants per breast (450ccs are normally considered large) joins the hijinks by smashing empty coke cans and watermelons with her huge breasts.
Much more instructive: the use of leeches, a technique that has a real basis and history in cosmetic plastic surgery.
(Learn more about leeches and plastic surgery.)
One patient showed up in the doctors’ office with some discoloration in a breast. Dr. Dubrow applied leeches that got a quick snack and returned the breast to a normal color.
Patient Dwight Eubanks, formerly seen on TV programs like “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” had previously suffered a botched rhinoplasty by asking for smaller nostrils.
But the previous surgeon had botched the job by taking too much, a common mistake in novice hands. Dr. Nassiff’s task was to widen the nostrils so Dwight could breathe. The nostrils were successfully widened, but then the doctor found the previous surgeon had not left much nasal bone or cartilage for Dr. Nassiff to create a better-looking nose.
(Look at some excellent nose job before & after pictures.)
But the BevHills nose surgeon soldiered on and created a nose that fit Paul’s face and profile while assuring his nose also does its chief job – passing air to his lungs.
(See some non-surgical rhinoplasty before & after photos.)
The “funeral” part of this episode? That was Paul saying good-by to his old, trouble-prone, over-operated and once botched nose.