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In this episode, Dr Gregory Keller, a board-certified facial plastic surgeon with offices in Beverly Hills and Santa Barbara, Calif, and full clinical professor and member of the medical staff at UCLA, talks about what it means for your practice and patient relationships to offer retail skincare products in office and what stands out to him about the Defenage line of skincare and haircare products. 

This week, we revisit our conversation with Terri Ross, a well-known aesthetics practice management consultant. She talks about how a med spa can benefit the plastic surgery practice financially and improve patient outcomes and the lifetime value of a patient to the practice.

Dr Sal Pacella, division head of plastic surgery at Scripps Hospital, on the opportunities to change a child’s life through reconstructive plastic surgery with the non-profit Fresh Start Surgical Gifts. 

In this episode, Dr Elisabeth Potter, who specializes in DIEP flap breast procedures, on how the recent CMS decision ensures patients have options and why there is still more work to be done to ensure equitable access. 

In this episode, Max Stock, founder and CEO fo Epicutis Skincare, joins the podcast to talk about the company's products, how they were developed, why they're ideal for plastic surgery patients post procedure, and how Epicutis works with plastic surgery practice to build better patient relationships. 

In this podcast episode, Dr Alex Zuriarrain is back to talk about the surgical and non-surgical neck lift options, who’s a good candidate for what, and setting realistic expectations with your patients. 

In this episode, Leah Garcia and Dr Felipe Jimenez of Nulastin, the hair care brand focused on elastin replenishment, on why hair care products should be part of a plastic surgery practice’s retail offerings and its line of products featuring its patented Elastaplex technology. 

In this podcast, we look at facial paralysis, facial reconstruction, and the role of the plastic surgeon, Babak Azizzadeh, MD, FACS, a double-board certified facial plastic and reconstructive surgery, specializing in the field. In this episode:

• Founder and director of The Facial Paralysis Institute and associate clinical professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Azizzadeh shares how it was a family friend’s experience with facial paralysis while he was doing his residency that sparked his passion for this subspecialty.
• Most of the time, Azizzadeh explains, we don’t think about the 17 muscles on either side of our face—the ones that allow us to express ourselves and control how our mouth for eating and speaking and opening and closing our eyes. The brain and the facial nerve work together seamlessly. But when there is an injury, virus, inflammation, infection, or tumor that interrupts that nerve, the face can stop working normally—and that is when facial paralysis can set in.
• Azizzadeh explains the role of the facial plastic surgeon in managing facial paralysis. He talks about how most plastic surgery is about creating some improvement in symmetry or static procedures, like face lifts. Facial paralysis, on the other hand, requires more dynamic reconstructive efforts to allow the patient to, for example, “smile more naturally, emotionally, and more instinctually, according to Azizzadeh.
• In his breakdown of the procedures in his armamentarium, Azizzadeh explains that no two patients present the same. Facial paralysis, however, can be broken down into two categories which come down to zero activity and some activity. He explains how length of paralysis affects surgical choices and how muscles from other parts of the body can be used introduced where facial muscles have atrophied.
• For patients experiencing facial paralysis caused by Bell’s Palsy, Azizzadeh explains how he is using Botox and physiotherapy to improve patient’s facial movement.
• And then, Azizzadeh talks about his own pioneering work in the field, including his surgery called selective neurolysis to help patients regain the ability to produce natural facial expressions. PSP

To commemorate Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Plastic Surgery Practice Co-Chief Editors Alison Werner and Keri Stephens sit down with registered nurse and breast cancer survivor Kim Welch. A degreed aesthetic specialist with more than 15 years of experience focused on aesthetic injectables, Welch is one of the most requested national injectable trainers for Galderma.
In this podcast, Welch shares—firsthand—how chemotherapy and radiation can reduce facial volume and how breast cancer survivors can reclaim what was lost through injectables. She also reveals behind-the-scenes information about Galderma’s partnership with the National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF) and how Galderma and the NBCF’s resources can benefit survivors looking to embrace post-treatment care.

Finally, Welch provides her fellow injectors with expert tips for working with breast cancer survivors and shares how plastic surgery practices should approach this patient group.

Join Plastic Surgery Practice Co-Chief Editors Alison Werner and Keri Stephens as they talk to Alexander Zuriarrain, MD, FACS—a board-certified plastic surgeon and owner of Zuri Plastic Surgery in Miami—about the rise of Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL) reversals. The podcast, which follows Zuriarrain’s PSP article about the subject, reveals why most surgeons shy away from the procedure and whether the BBL era is truly over like one article recently claimed.

Learn how a med spa can benefit the practice financially, and improve patient outcomes and the lifetime value of a patient to the practice.

Join Plastic Surgery Practice Co-Chief Editor Keri Stephens as she talks to Alexander Zuriarrain, MD, FACS—a board-certified plastic surgeon and owner of Zuri Plastic Surgery in Miami—about how nanofat grafting can reverse the structural decline of aging skin. The podcast, which follows Zuriarrain’s PSP article about the subject, provides a history of nanofat grafting and why it’s surging in popularity.
 
Zuriarrain also reveals how stem cells are impacting the nanofat grafting process—calling them “the workhorse of tissue regeneration”—and how they help reduce inflammation at the molecular level. He also shares the key advantages of nanofat grafting, as well as the drawbacks to the process. (Spoiler alert, there are very few!)
 
Finally, Zuriarrain, who counts fat grafting among his most performed procedures, discloses whether he anticipates nanofat grafting for facial rejuvenation one day overtaking fillers and why nanofat grafting can positively impact patients’ psyches.

Join Plastic Surgery Practice Co-Chief Editors Alison Werner and Keri Stephens as they talk to Camelia Lawrence, MD, FACS, the director of breast surgery at the Hospital of Central Connecticut and MidState Medical Center, Hartford Healthcare; and Katrin van Dam, a breast cancer survivor, and the author of Flat and Happy: Mastectomy and Flat Closure—A Personal, Practical Guide, which she wrote alongside of Lawrence.
 
This podcast delves into the reasons van Dam decided to stay flat after her mastectomy—and why she documented her experience in the book—and what she wants to tell other mastectomy patients about her choice. Van Dam also addresses how comparing mastectomies to gender-affirming top surgeries “denies the grief of one [procedure] and the relief of the other.”
 
Finally, Lawrence shares why she believes most women who choose implant-based reconstruction go into their first appointment with their plastic surgeon blindly and how breast surgeons and plastic surgeons can work together better to improve outcomes among mastectomy patients.

In this episode, board-certified plastic surgeon Marc Salzman, MD, FACS, shares how he is using ultrasound with breast implant patients.

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Podcast host Alison Werner talks to Fitzharris about The Facemaker, her new book chronicling the work of the father of modern plastic surgery Dr Harold Gillies during World War I.

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Podcast hosts Keri Stephens and Alison Werner talk to Dr Chen about the sensory restoration procedure and how it can be life-changing for breast reconstruction patients.

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