WEBVTT - Brazilian Butt Lifts: What To Know 0:00:01.200 --> 0:00:03.680 The Brazilian butt lift or b b L is the 0:00:03.760 --> 0:00:07.800 fastest growing cosmetic procedure in the world. Experts say it's 0:00:07.880 --> 0:00:12.680 also the most dangerous, and people are dying not by 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:15.760 the dozens, but by the hunt. They say, she didn't 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:19.800 make it. Wow. And in a Brazilian butt lift, almost 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:23.640 a leader of fat is injected into each but a cheek. 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:28.360 It's only a matter of time before we are going 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:32.040 to see a death in real time. It will happen. 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:36.800 This is supremely important. I remember waking up and I'm like, 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:39.920 hold up a minute. I went from a B to 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:42.080 a double D. We had a death of week before 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:44.959 her and a death of week after her. How did 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:47.600 we end up here? I was really trying to keep 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:54.360 that from happening to people. Well, guys, this is going 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:57.920 to be a very interesting WHOA for sure. Extremely I'm 0:00:57.960 --> 0:01:02.800 glad we're talking about this today. The b B else 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:05.880 because I was considering getting me too. I think, let's 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:09.520 be real, okay, I considered getting the tiniest little bit 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:11.440 you did. But then I just got in the gym, 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:14.119 That's why. And I told her, I said, you want 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:16.920 to but one thing your mother know how to do 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:21.240 is build a bun exactly, and you bet it. But 0:01:21.280 --> 0:01:23.800 I really to the point that people thought you got 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:26.279 certain you know, you're right. I just feel like there's 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:30.199 always been so much more pressure on women to look 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:33.840 a certain way. You know, it's all about youth. So 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:37.640 for somebody like me, the struggle has been extremely real, 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:40.520 Like I had botox, and then you get to the 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:43.280 point where how much are you gonna do? Then it 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:47.720 almost becomes addictive. Both y'all know, I've been collecting my 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:55.080 little surgeons for that inevitable, inevitable moment that this girl 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:58.920 right here is gonna get a little snatch even though 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:01.120 people think I have done it already, but I have, 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:05.000 you really haven't. This is interesting. So due to COVID, 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:09.520 cosmetic surgery has become even more popular because of what's 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:13.760 being called the zoom boom. We spend hours staring at 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:17.200 our own faces and not liking what we see. Like, 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:20.640 to me, my face never looks right. Well, she nobody's 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:24.200 face it looks right, because I don't think twenty year 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:26.400 olds think that face looks right. Now that you can 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:28.840 and all this stuff you can do with your picture, 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:32.000 you know, all the voters and I mean just an 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:38.680 insane amount of like self esteem like problems, like specifically nowadays, 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:41.080 I feel like, but getting back to the butt lift, 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:43.960 some people be looking real cute. Here's what we can't deny. 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:46.920 It does change lives for some people. It's kind of 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:51.440 like a BBL can get you forward in life and wait, 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:57.320 whoas and like influencing all of these things like if 0:02:57.360 --> 0:03:00.240 you have this look, now you can get these two 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:05.480 years it's lips, it's but it's I just want women 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:10.520 to feel empower and I feel like there's a slippery 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:16.200 slope with empowerment on this trajectory of of changing the 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:19.440 way your body looks. We'll see it's it's it's what 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:22.640 we always say, will aware. You can pretty much do anything. 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:26.079 It's just a matter of where you're sitting within yourself, 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:30.200 the why exactly the real so. But that's only for 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:35.000 an individual person to figure out for themselves, you know, 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:39.200 and it's not for anybody else. But one of the 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:41.520 reasons why we thought it was important to do this 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:44.760 particular show is to just really express I don't think 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:49.480 people are aware of the risk. I know I wasn't. 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:54.120 The Brazilian Butt Lift or BVL, is the fastest growing 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:58.000 cosmetic procedure in the world. Experts say it's also the 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:02.920 most dangerous new you of Magazine, USA Today, and Newsweek 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:06.040 have all recently reported on it. They say the huge 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:08.920 demand for BBL is due to a new social media 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:13.040 trend where women are posting the entire process on social 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:19.040 media for all to see. The hashtag BBL has been 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:25.359 used more than three billion times. It definitely makes a difference, 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:30.279 three billion. They're showing off not just their results. They're 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:34.680 showing you before and after, but the painful, weeks long recovery. 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:38.120 She's a little bruised up there, even letting their doctors 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:44.320 go live from the operating room side back. This global 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:48.400 phenomenon has sparked a worldwide search for the best butt 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:52.719 at the lowest price. Stunning video shows a line of 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:56.680 twenty four BBL post out patients in wheelchairs waiting to 0:04:56.760 --> 0:05:00.720 board their flight from the Dominican Republic to Atlanta. The 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:04.840 big Butt Barbie Doll body trend has launched careers and 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:09.320 created influencers. I had eight mills of fact injected in total. 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:11.320 I personally wanted it way big up, but this was 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:14.240 all the fact I had in my whole body. Wow, 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:17.320 we're not here to tell anybody what to do, what 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:21.680 not to do. I feel like people should be able 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:26.200 to do whatever right. I just want people to be 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:30.960 able to do their research. The BBL is very controversial 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:35.640 and dangerous. One out of three thousand women won't make it. 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:41.960 A mom and a ninth grade English teacher, Alicia Rennette Williams, 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:45.200 had waited years to get plastic surgery, got on a 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:50.040 plane to the Dominican Republic and tragically never came home. 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:56.760 Alicia's sister Stacy is here along with Dr Mila Bennett, 0:05:56.880 --> 0:06:00.480 who was a Board certified plastic surgeon dr and did 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:04.479 not treat Alicia, but knows her story all too well. Stacy, 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:07.960 let me first just say we're really sorry about the 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:10.800 loss of your sister. Thank you. Could you tell us 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:15.400 a little bit about her? Aelicia was the best list ever. 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:18.440 She's been a school teacher for a long long time. 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:23.719 She only had one child, which was Chad. She lost weight, 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:26.640 gain weight, lost weight, gain weight, so she started looking 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:31.000 into having a BBL. She did a research for a 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:34.800 couple of years. Then she come across these groups on 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:38.880 social media, which makes everything look so good and so easy. 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:42.200 In these groups that they have, they put it out 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:45.359 there that you know, all of us want to go 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:48.480 to the Menic and Republic. So you find somebody and 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:53.440 you go together. They were called surgery sisters. And the 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:57.080 ladies from the groups say how cheap it is and 0:06:57.160 --> 0:07:00.320 you can just get this perfect body. So this is 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:02.520 why she decided to go to the American Republic to 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:05.279 get this surgery. She was so excited to go because 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:09.280 she ever expressed why she wanted the BBL. She just 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:12.760 wanted to look pretty and small, small ways, big hip. 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:18.520 Most ladies are doing that. Yeah, exactly, that's exactly what 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:21.520 it is. So then what happened next. So the nurse 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:24.240 or the lady assistant that she had been talking to 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:26.880 the whole time, my sister told her, I wanted to 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:29.840 be the first one to have surgery. The next morning, 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:32.120 my sister kept telling her that. It kept telling her that, 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:35.360 and she kept ensuring her, Yeah, you'll be the first one, 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:37.720 You'll be the first one. She did not get to 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:40.640 be the first. She was the very last person to 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:44.119 have surgery that day. During that day, when I talked 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:46.680 to my sister, she was so upset. I could tell 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:49.440 her blood pressure was so hot. Was there a reason 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:52.600 why she wanted to be first. It's plastic surgery. It 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:55.080 takes a couple of hours, and you're the last person 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:58.160 the doctor's tired. She didn't want that to happen to her. 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:01.400 Do we know around what time it'll very last? Was 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:04.200 I think about six o'clock in the afternoon. Did she 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:09.640 have an opportunity to meet the doctor before her procedure? No? No, 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:14.200 she talked to this nurse's assistant the whole entire time. 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:17.120 She was the orchestrator of all of this. When did 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:21.520 you know that something wasn't work? She stayed alive five 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:25.400 days after her surgery. About the third day, I got 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:27.440 a message said that they had to send her back 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:32.319 to the hospital for dehydration, and leading I tried to 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:35.319 contact the nurse and they just give you minimal information. 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:38.400 And then I got a text message that they had 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:41.040 to rush my sister back to the hospital and that 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:43.520 was all that she said. And then I woke up 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:47.200 and I had so many miss phone calls and my 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:52.400 heart is like, okay, this is not good. Yeah, they 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:55.240 called my sister boyfriend. They said she didn't make it 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:58.800 and it was just down here from there, and how 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:04.080 are we going to tell Chad? Dr Bennett, What was 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:09.160 your relationship to Alicia? I learned of Alicia from Stacy. 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:12.680 She d m me on social media and she wanted 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:14.280 to let me know what it happened to her sister. 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:16.120 She wanted me to know because she knew I had 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:20.559 done so much speaking about the dangerous aspects of plastic surgery. 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:24.160 It's pretty rare that I performed bbls because I believe 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:27.080 that they're dangerous, They're risky. Did they say cause of death? 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:30.479 She had a lot done at once. She did several procedures. 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:34.360 She had several procedure, she had sat taken from under 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:39.280 her arm, she had the fat transfer from her stomach 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:42.320 from her back. They put something in her hips to 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:45.640 give her some hips and Tommy Tuck also, it was 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:47.760 a lot, and it's too much, too much to be 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:50.720 done at one time. Based on the combination of procedures 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:53.199 she got, it sounded like it was most likely a 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:57.400 pulmonary embolism. That's usually a blood clot that forms of 0:09:57.440 --> 0:09:59.840 your legs and goes up to your lungs. Those can 0:09:59.880 --> 0:10:02.160 be dead lead. I think that's what happened to her. 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:08.240 Did you ever have an opportunity to talk to the doctor. Wow, 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:12.679 when my sister passed, they posted a thing it says 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:15.319 the doctor have talked to the family, and I'm like, 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:19.840 I never talked to the doctor never. Okay, that's really shady. 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:21.960 Well it's shady to do surgery on a person you've 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:27.480 not met. Is the doctor who worked on Alicia? Is 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:31.160 that doctor still practicing? Yeah? There was a lot of 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:34.680 deaths after my sister. He had a death of week 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:37.560 before her and a death of week after her. Is 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:40.440 making me upset. Now, I'm like, how did you, like, 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:43.520 how did we end up here? You know, I was 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:46.240 really trying to keep that from happening to people, you know, 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:49.040 and then when I saw her picture. We have to 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:52.719 humanize her legacy. You know this, this this young man 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:56.360 has got to tell people that his mom died from surgery. 0:10:56.600 --> 0:11:00.360 Alicia's son, Chaz, was fourteen when she died. Thank earlier. 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:03.840 Set down with him to hear his message. Tell me 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:08.640 why you wanted to come today. I just want to 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:12.199 save another kid, keep them from losing their mom. Tell 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:14.800 us a little bit about your mom. She was the best. 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:17.640 She was just a joyful person and she was sweet, funny. 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:20.719 That was my best friend. We did everything together. What 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:23.839 was your favorite thing about her. I don't think she 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:27.360 ever saw a bad side of things. You have a 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:30.800 bright soul. I can feel your mom through you. Thank you. 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:37.800 He's very deicious. Yeah, if I just wanted to say 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:40.000 to you both, thank you for coming. This will save 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:44.679 a lot of people. Yeah. So, Dr Arthur Perry is 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:48.400 a Harvard trained plastic surgeon with more than three decades 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:53.640 of experience. He led an investigation on deaths caused by BBLS. 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:56.800 Says he won't perform BBLS and he's going to take 0:11:56.880 --> 0:12:01.120 us through everything, so explain to us. Actually, what BBL 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:03.559 is a Brazilian butt lift. That's what it's called. It's 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:06.960 a very very poorly named procedure because one it's not 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:10.160 Brazilian and two it's not a lift. What it is 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:12.520 is taking fat from one area of the body where 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:15.280 you don't want it, like your belly or your thighs 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:19.559 hips wherever, and suction in a way and injecting it 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:23.760 into the buttocks. It sounds great right too. For one procedure, 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:28.000 you get liposuction and you get a larger buttocks if 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:30.600 that's what you want. By the way I pronounce a liposuction, 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:33.440 everyone in the world pronounces the LiPo, but the word 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:38.000 is lipid, it's not. Yeah, all right. A Brazilian butt 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:41.560 lift is a very dangerous procedure. There have been countless deaths, 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:46.760 hundreds of deaths. So I have here. This is duck fat. 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:49.680 It looks just like human fat. Got it. The way 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:52.120 we do a b B L. The first step is 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:56.640 to extract fat. We do liposuction, liposuction, whatever you want 0:12:56.640 --> 0:12:59.040 to call it. This is a what's called a canula 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:03.240 is a liposuction. And if this were your abdomen, I 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:08.000 would be going back and forth with this liposuction canyla. 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:12.240 And this end is attached to a very fancy vacuum, 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:16.520 and the liposuction machine is basically a vacuum. It is. 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:21.160 So what we do in a procedure like a Brazilian 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:23.800 butt lift, we'll take the fat and draw it up 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:26.920 in these syringes. This is just how it's done. Uh. 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:29.880 It's already been taken out of the body and filtered, 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:32.480 so we'll get the blood out. This is a typical 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:34.679 syringe that we might use. This is a sixty c 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:38.480 C syringe and in a Brazilian butt lift, as much 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:42.160 as eight hundred ccs. That's almost a leader of fat 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:47.400 is injected into each buttock cheek peach, So that's a lot. 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:51.520 Imagine thirteen or fourteen of these injected into each buttock. 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:55.880 So all of that fat, that eight hundred ccs is 0:13:55.920 --> 0:14:00.559 coming from several different areas in their belly, their hips. Sure, 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:03.559 now we have to be very careful. I will go 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:07.160 ahead and make an incision and go ahead, and there 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:10.839 it is. But that is basically how it's done. And 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:14.720 where I've placed this is above the muscle. I could 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:17.280 go into the muscle. That's not a good thing, and 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:19.160 that's where a lot of the problems with the Brazilian 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:21.760 butt lift have occurred. Now you might be wondering why 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:25.880 I have these. These are straws, just regular drinking straws, 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:29.600 and they represent the blood vessels in the thigh, in 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:33.880 the buttocks. These are pretty big. This is three millimeters. 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:37.040 The current recommendation is that we don't go smaller than this. 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:39.640 But look what happens. I can take this three millimeter 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:42.160 and put it right in this blood vessel. So this 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:44.360 is going up what's called the Vinta cave, that's the 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:47.120 big van of the body, into the heart and then 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:49.520 right into the lungs and then you simply die. And 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:52.680 that's the danger of a Brazilian butt lift. This much 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:55.640 fat will kill you, in fact a lot less. So 0:14:55.760 --> 0:15:01.120 what happens in a procedure where someone's injecting three hundred 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:04.800 eight hundred ccs or more of fat? Could I injected 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:08.280 straight into a blood vessel? Yes, that could happen, even 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:11.120 if we don't go into the muscle. Is it just 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:13.120 like a game of chance, like when you when you 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:17.000 try to find that spot like, that's correct? It is? 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:20.880 It is? It is. Now there are things that classic 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:23.920 churches are trying to do. They're trying to develop technology 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:26.240 that will tell people when they're in the muscle. I 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:28.320 don't think that's good enough because some of these very 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:32.080 large veins traverse, they go through the fat. Also, so 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:33.880 even if we're in the muscle, we could be getting 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:37.160 fat into the blood vessels. And each rain has a 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:41.480 different way of mont and we know where most of 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:45.480 them are, but we don't know where exactly. You don't 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:48.720 have X ray eyes, you can't see. That's correct. So 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:51.440 when this fat goes into that big blood vessel, goes 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:54.760 into the heart and then then into the lungs, the 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:57.640 game is over and I think over the years this 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:01.800 will become safer. But the problem is we're doing this now. 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:05.080 We're doing this now. Plastic surgeons are doing this, and 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:07.800 other surgeons are doing this now when it is not 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:11.520 considered uniformly safe. Think about this. So, if I were 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:14.680 a cardiac surgeon and I invented a device like a 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:17.120 new heart valve, do you know that it takes almost 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:19.440 ten years to get that on the market. That's to 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:22.760 keep you safe in my field in plastic surgery. I 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:25.880 think up an operation today, I say, let's see if 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:28.440 I can have someone do it. And if I do it, 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:30.760 then I get a public relations agent. I'm not going 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:33.440 to make many friends and plastic surgery saying this, but 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:35.840 this is true. You get a public relations agent and 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:37.760 the next morning, after you're on this show or some 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:41.520 other show, your office is filled with patients, whether or 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:45.320 not the procedure has been proven safe. And that is 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:48.000 where we are. That is why the British plastic surgeons 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:52.040 told their members don't do this procedure. It's not considered safe. 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:56.640 We're studying. This is at this point experimental, so so 0:16:56.680 --> 0:16:59.720 I just want to be clear. The BBL procedure it's 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:07.200 not considered a certified procedure. Basically, well, for the most part, 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:11.040 the government stays out of medicine when it's surgery. They 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:16.159 regulate things like drugs, of course, and they regulate devices. 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:18.880 They don't regulate what I can do in the operating room. 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:22.840 For the most part, neither does the state government. The 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:26.120 exception has been with this procedure in Florida when there 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:29.080 were all those deaths. And my role in this was 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:33.080 that I was recruited by USA Today as a newspaper 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:36.879 to look at all the deaths, the autopsy reports and 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:39.440 try and help them understand what was going on. Now 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:43.000 Florida has taken the step. They have said, because of 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:48.040 all those deaths, doctors cannot by law go underneath the 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:51.879 muscle or into the muscle with an injection of fat. 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:58.000 If you do, they said, even accidentally, you lose your license. Wow. 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:03.400 H Are your fellow um plastic surgery friends like tiffed 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:07.320 at the stance you're taking about this. The ones that 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:10.239 do it, certainly are the ones that don't do it 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:13.879 have said, you know, good job. The dangers are real 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:17.040 and people are dying not by the dozens but by 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:21.800 the hundreds. Wow. How much does the BBL costs? It depends. 0:18:21.800 --> 0:18:24.600 If you go in Manhattan, everything is three times it's expensive. 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:27.760 It would be well over ten thousand dollars in Manhattan. 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:31.560 Going down to the places you know, hardly call them 0:18:31.640 --> 0:18:35.440 doctor's offices in Florida and around the country that will 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:39.400 see you without ever seeing a doctor, it's not uncommon. Unfortunately, 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:42.719 those might charge you three or four thousand dollars. And 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:45.919 while that's still a lot of money, people scrape together 0:18:45.960 --> 0:18:48.400 their dollars and they say, I want to look beautiful. 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:50.920 And that's one of the really sad things about this 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:54.280 because some of the most dangerous places are the least 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:57.800 expensive places. So let me ask you, Dr Perry, how 0:18:57.800 --> 0:19:02.200 should we go about trying to uh do research and 0:19:02.320 --> 0:19:07.280 find the best doctor for whatever procedure is trying to 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:10.200 have done. You know, it's it's not the easiest thing. 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:13.919 It really isn't because every website is really an advertisement, 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:16.040 right And I'm sorry to say this, but you know 0:19:16.080 --> 0:19:17.760 all the best doctor lists, which you know I'm on 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:22.320 the New York doctor list. Those unfortunately our popularity contests 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:26.520 now because many of the hospitals they prompt their doctors 0:19:26.560 --> 0:19:29.359 to vote for their colleague. Sorry, Uh, this is where 0:19:29.359 --> 0:19:33.000 I'm going to get the emails because it's true, and 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:36.360 so can you trust all those lists? They just want 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:39.320 you to buy the plaque seventy do and you can 0:19:39.359 --> 0:19:42.840 put best doctor in whatever right that is a problem. 0:19:42.880 --> 0:19:46.360 Here's how I I suggest. It is extremely important that 0:19:46.440 --> 0:19:49.880 you choose a proper plastic surgeon. A real plastic surgeon 0:19:49.960 --> 0:19:53.560 calls him or herself a plastic surgeon. You want to 0:19:53.560 --> 0:19:57.879 find the doctor that is certified by the American Board 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:00.679 of Plastic Surgery, that's the real word. You want to 0:20:00.720 --> 0:20:04.320 look at their training and and learn what medical school 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:07.520 that doctor went to and where they did their residency. 0:20:08.280 --> 0:20:10.520 Very important. So what you want to do is find 0:20:10.520 --> 0:20:14.120 a doctor who has privileges to do the procedure that 0:20:14.280 --> 0:20:18.200 you're looking at having in a hospital, not a surgery center, 0:20:18.560 --> 0:20:21.200 and not an office. You don't necessarily want to have 0:20:21.240 --> 0:20:24.040 that procedure in the hospital, but you want the doctor 0:20:24.119 --> 0:20:26.639 to have privileges at the hospital. And the reason for 0:20:26.840 --> 0:20:30.320 that is because there are other doctors that are looking 0:20:30.359 --> 0:20:33.720 at that doctor and saying in a committee format that 0:20:33.800 --> 0:20:36.879 they are properly trained and they can do that procedure. Here. Again, 0:20:36.960 --> 0:20:39.200 not a popular thing. I won't make friends with this 0:20:39.280 --> 0:20:47.040 interview here. This is supremely important because I didn't know 0:20:47.119 --> 0:20:49.840 that either. The other thing is whether your doctor wants 0:20:49.880 --> 0:20:53.000 it or not. See a board certified INTERNALT prior to 0:20:53.040 --> 0:20:58.159 surgery internest. Sorry Gang, not a family doctor. And again, 0:20:58.280 --> 0:21:00.919 no friends going to be made here. But honestly, if 0:21:00.960 --> 0:21:03.680 you're an adult, you see an INTERNETS beforehand. Now in 0:21:03.720 --> 0:21:06.800 California that's a law, but not in the rest of 0:21:06.800 --> 0:21:09.600 the United States. Everyone over the age of sixty, I 0:21:09.720 --> 0:21:12.199 have them get an exercise stress test. And if you 0:21:12.240 --> 0:21:14.399 pass an exercise stress test, I know your heart is 0:21:14.400 --> 0:21:16.280 going to be just fine in the operating room. Right, 0:21:16.400 --> 0:21:18.120 So there are things that you can do to protect 0:21:18.200 --> 0:21:22.840 yourself from disaster. There's one other thing that I suggest 0:21:22.880 --> 0:21:26.040 also ask your doctor who they would go to a 0:21:26.160 --> 0:21:30.600 doctor's right, that's what you want. What questions should patients 0:21:30.840 --> 0:21:35.040 ask when they meet their doctor. The consultation must be 0:21:35.119 --> 0:21:38.120 with the doctor, and we've heard of consultations with nurse. 0:21:38.280 --> 0:21:40.920 Sary on your nurse, I want to have my surgeon 0:21:41.400 --> 0:21:46.360 to the consultation, including imaging. Imaging is important plastic surgery, 0:21:46.520 --> 0:21:48.880 and if the nurse does that, well, you know they 0:21:48.920 --> 0:21:51.720 don't really know what the doctor can do in the 0:21:51.760 --> 0:21:54.520 operating room. It's got to be the doctor. Sit down 0:21:54.520 --> 0:21:57.280 with the doctor. A consultation is a minimum of half 0:21:57.320 --> 0:21:59.320 an hour. If it's one of these five minute things, 0:21:59.520 --> 0:22:02.959 forget it. And honestly, everybody wants to save money. But 0:22:03.359 --> 0:22:05.840 a free consultation you get what you pay for. You're 0:22:05.840 --> 0:22:08.560 not going to get an hour with a doctor at 0:22:08.680 --> 0:22:10.960 no charge. You want to know if you can relate 0:22:11.000 --> 0:22:13.400 to the doctor. I want to see pictures of patients. 0:22:13.440 --> 0:22:15.680 If the doctor doesn't show you pictures, there's something wrong. 0:22:16.160 --> 0:22:19.879 Should someone ask a doctor if they've ever had a 0:22:20.119 --> 0:22:25.199 death during a procedure that they have performed. Why not? 0:22:25.640 --> 0:22:27.639 Are they going to tell you the truth? They better? 0:22:27.920 --> 0:22:31.440 It's reasonable to ask have you had malpractice suits? How 0:22:31.480 --> 0:22:33.840 many have you had? Any action taken against your license? 0:22:34.000 --> 0:22:36.879 You can find out. Most state boards have websites in 0:22:36.960 --> 0:22:39.240 most states, the disciplinary action is out there, so you 0:22:39.240 --> 0:22:40.639 don't have to ask the doctor did you get a 0:22:40.640 --> 0:22:42.680 reprimand did you lose your license? Because you can find 0:22:42.720 --> 0:22:45.320 that out and people should. If you're willing to go 0:22:45.520 --> 0:22:49.920 on Yelp and look for restaurant reviews, you know, go 0:22:50.880 --> 0:22:53.480 to the state board website and find out whether your 0:22:53.520 --> 0:22:57.520 doctor got disciplined. How well do the butt lift last? Like, 0:22:57.600 --> 0:23:00.520 what what is the long term effect all of that? 0:23:00.560 --> 0:23:04.040 What's going to happen that you asked that question, because 0:23:04.080 --> 0:23:07.480 you know what, if you look out there in the 0:23:07.840 --> 0:23:12.440 global information available about the Brazilian butt lift, you will 0:23:12.480 --> 0:23:18.200 not find that information. That study does not exist. So 0:23:18.359 --> 0:23:21.200 fat gets injected, it needs to get a blood supply. 0:23:21.680 --> 0:23:24.879 Each and every fat cell has to get nutrients, It 0:23:24.920 --> 0:23:30.600 has to get oxygen anywhere from ten lives to maybe 0:23:31.040 --> 0:23:33.760 we don't know. The studies have not been done. So now, 0:23:33.880 --> 0:23:38.119 what does it look like in a year, five years, 0:23:38.600 --> 0:23:42.120 ten years when someone's push eight d cs of fat 0:23:42.160 --> 0:23:45.639 in each buttock almost a leader of fat. No one knows. 0:23:45.760 --> 0:23:48.879