As a plastic surgeon working in Beverly Hills, Dr. Gal Aharanov has seen it all. And he says there’s a growing dark side to his industry’s focus on beauty. We talk plastic surgery procedures, celebrity transformations, plastic surgery horror stories, what to look for in a good plastic surgeon and how he became famous for making dimples. Then, we countdown the Top 5 Easy Things That Are Hard To Do.
Dr. Gal Aharonov: 02:22ish
Pointless: 40:35ish
Top 5: 55:26ish
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Topics we discuss:
How different plastic surgery procedures are performed.
How much different plastic surgeries cost.
How to find a good plastic surgeon.
How to spot a bad plastic surgeon.
How to know if a plastic surgeon is right for you.
How to tell if a celebrity has had plastic surgery.
What is the easiest, hardest and most painful plastic surgery.
Plastic surgery horror stories and nightmares.
What is the future of plastic surgery and aesthetic medicine.
Interview with Plastic Surgeon Dr. Gal Aharonov
Nick VinZant 0:11
Welcome to Profoundly Pointless. My name is Nick VinZant. Coming up in this episode, plastic surgery secrets, and easy things that are really hard to do.
Dr. Gal Aharonov 0:24
Imagine taking a whole section of your abdomen, and now reattaching it with its vessels, its blood vessels to your face, it might, I might give you exactly what you want be like, This is exactly what you want it and you might be super unhappy. Because it's just not what you imagined it to be. You didn't realize how people would treat you different. But man, I'll tell you it's esthetic medicine is a dirty, dirty field if people only knew it's dirty, because listen, okay, there was a time where, literally, I was the world's leader. In making dimples.
Nick VinZant 1:08
I want to thank you so much for joining us. If you get a chance, like, download, subscribe, share, leave a review, we really appreciate it really helps us out. So when we started this show, this episode is really what we set out to do. Taking a topic that people were familiar with, curious about, and really revealing what the real story is what it's really like to be involved in it. Our first guest is a prominent plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills, who is known around the world. And he has this fascinating story about a industry that is focused on beauty, but can be very dirty. This is plastic surgeon, Dr. Gall aren't off real quick. I have to apologize. There's something in my audio. We're trying to figure out what's going on if it's in the upload, or the recording or whatever. But it's incredibly frustrating for us and we're trying to get it fixed. It's fine. It just annoys me that it's not what it could be. Is plastic surgery. Is it a complicated surgery? Or is it generally fairly uncomplicated compared to other surgeries? Of course?
Dr. Gal Aharonov 2:33
Ah, way less complicated, way less complicated. What do we even think plastic surgery is because I think like lay people associate plastic surgery with with some like, what do you think plastic surgery is?
Nick VinZant 2:47
The first thing that I would go to is like a nose reduction. Right? Like that's the thing that I would think first and you're using a knife, you cut open a side of the nose and you chop half of it off.
Dr. Gal Aharonov 3:00
So I think I think most people have that association with plastics, they think about esthetics, they think about all like, Yeah, but knows looking better, or the face looking better, or, you know, breasts or whatever. So, and there's a lot of other aspects of plastic surgery that are like more reconstructive like, you're actually taking like a big flap of tissue from another part of their body. Like, imagine taking a whole section of your abdomen, and now reattaching it with its vessels, its blood vessels to your face, right just to kind of, you know, fix some like huge defect in the face.
Nick VinZant 3:41
If you looked at plastic surgery as a whole, like the industry, how much of it would you say is kind of the reconstructive aspect and how much of it is I want to look better feel better about myself, like if we broke it into a percentage.
Dr. Gal Aharonov 3:53
I think as time goes by, it's more and more of that esthetic, you know, for for many different reasons. Public Interest demand, it's what people want, there's only going to be so much reconstructive stuff out there. But it's almost like limitless possibilities for this static side.
Nick VinZant 4:15
What like when you look at most kinds of plastic surgery, why is it less complicated than other kinds of surgery?
Dr. Gal Aharonov 4:23
Because it has to have such a high degree of success. Does that make sense? Like for example, if you're going into brain surgery, like you're lucky to come out alive, if you go in for a nose job, and you come out and there was a higher risk of death for that, for example, or, you know, 10% of people came out without a nose at all. I don't think many people would be getting those jobs. But if you got some brain cancer, I mean you do what you got to do you take 10% risk any day of the week.
Nick VinZant 5:00
That makes perfect sense. So then is it less complicated? Because plastic surgeons are like, we're only going to do the easiest stuff, we're only going to do the things we know can be successful, or is it just that? Like, it's really not that difficult to take? centimeters off? Somebody? No.
Dr. Gal Aharonov 5:21
Okay. So when you're talking about complicated, sometimes the complicated is going to be getting that result to be consistently good. Okay, so like, that's another factor, can you get something to be consistently good? And so a surgery might be easy by itself. But now the hard part is going to be to get consistently great results, or to have a predictable result that might be really hard. And yes, some surgeries are harder. nose jobs are known as more complicated not because the surgery is complicated. Anyone can go in there and technically do a nose job. But now there's different techniques, different little modifications, different refinements, that might be a lot harder.
Nick VinZant 6:12
When you go into the surgery, like, do you know exactly what somebody space is going to look like after you do it? Or are you taking more of an educated guess based on experience,
Dr. Gal Aharonov 6:23
you you kind of hope that after doing something a lot, you have a reasonably good idea of what they're going to look like. But it's not 100%? Because there's other factors when it comes to healing, or everyone might do a little different. It's not 100%. So like, I think that's that's like what you have to relate to people like for example, like what you just said, there, people, I think that's what people think of right now, like you probably if you're going to go have surgery right now and actually make that decision, you're going to want to know what you're getting. Yeah, like,
Nick VinZant 6:59
I would want you to show me a picture of what I'm going to look like afterwards. But you couldn't necessarily do that, like you don't completely know
Dr. Gal Aharonov 7:08
doing like we do have software that we could kind of like show you especially for knows it like okay, this is kind of what my plan is, but what the plan is might be totally different than the outcome. And that's what I think I think like, like, for example, if you came in for a console, yeah, to get your expectations to be in line with reality, is that usually a hard part of it? No, that's like 90% of it to be honest. Like, because really think about it. What's What would you consider a good result? What do you think is a good result? A good outcome with plastic surgery?
Nick VinZant 7:43
I guess that would be the difficult part is I don't really even know what a good result would be until after I saw it.
Dr. Gal Aharonov 7:49
Exactly. So you're coming in with expectations, right? And you might be like, Oh, I think I want my nose one inch back. You might not have any idea what that might even look like. It's true. Yeah. And it might, it might give you exactly what you want. Be like, this is exactly what you want it and you might be super unhappy. Because it's just not what you imagined it to be. You didn't realize how your whole fit, you didn't realize how people would treat you different. And now your dots weirded you out? There's so many variables.
Nick VinZant 8:25
Have you ever had clients come back to you and say, like, my whole life is different. People treat me differently. I don't feel like myself anymore.
Dr. Gal Aharonov 8:35
In good and bad ways. I've had people where they felt so great afterwards, that they realize that their their marriages are just not good for them, because that person was mistreating them. And now like they know better, like I'm gonna get myself out of this. So you've seen I've seen people come back and literally say, I got this huge promotion. And people give me so much more respect now after this, and they attribute it to this. So there's good, there's positive and negative and one thing might be positive in some ways and negative in another way
Nick VinZant 9:15
that feels like that says something about a society to right, like my life is exactly like this. And then I got my nose reduced by half an inch and now I've been promoted and I've got a new wife.
Dr. Gal Aharonov 9:26
Yeah, yeah, it's crazy how much and now I don't think that society like I used to think that I honestly I was very for years now. And I'll tell you, it's all changed when I've had children now because now I see how kids are firsthand. And I was like, fuck society. Fuck the media, like your the media is ruining us and all and now I'm like, Nah, man, this is this is our nature, the only thing the media and everyone else I'm like, fuck plastic surgeons, you know, all they do is you're trying to make money doing this stuff. And now I'm like, You know what it's us. Like we're born this way. The media, everything is just about giving us easy access. It's like lowering friction to what we really want. Like, how are your kids? Like, have you noticed something like extremely superficial that your kids kind of think in a way?
Nick VinZant 10:26
No, not really. But they're not aware of it. So I am on the lower side of average and height. I'm five, eight.
Dr. Gal Aharonov 10:35
Okay, so let me ask you this, imagine there was an easy thing that you could do to make you taller.
Nick VinZant 10:43
My wife is five foot and my youngest is probably going to be pretty small in that age of small where it could affect his life. And there's, like, if he's five, four, or five, five, how different would his life suddenly be if he was five, eight, or five, nine.
Dr. Gal Aharonov 11:02
So different, you know, and that's sad. But it's the truth. It's the truth, especially, you know, I, I hope our world will be less sexist and 20 years, but especially for a man
Nick VinZant 11:15
and but at the same time, then what if you change it, and then he's whole personalities, completely different? Oh, take away what made this
Dr. Gal Aharonov 11:22
wonderful person you're right. But again, it's hindsight
Nick VinZant 11:25
when you do a surgery, right? And keep going back to the notes just because it's the easiest thing for me, right? But this everybody's pretty much the same?
Dr. Gal Aharonov 11:33
Well, okay, so you can have an idea, right? You go in and bait again, based on experience, you're like, Okay, I think this might be the issue. And you can have a plan in your head. Alright, this is what I think we're going to need to do. And let's say someone has never had a prior nose job. So you kind of have a good idea what normal anatomy is. For revision rhinoplasty. Everything's out the door, because you have no idea what's going to be in there. But for for like a fresh nose that's never had anything done. You got like, hopefully a decent idea.
Nick VinZant 12:07
Or you should, it still follows like the basic anatomy.
Dr. Gal Aharonov 12:11
Typically, like there might be other things like what maybe one side is more crumpled, and or, you know, this kind of an asymmetry exists in the cartilage or, or this or not, but yeah, it's yeah, there's like, usually typical anatomy, but in the know, you got to think about it. Like it might be typical anatomy. Now, it becomes like, well, how observant Are you? Because it might be typical, but there might be a couple of millimeter difference here and there. And if you're not aware of those couple of millimeters, that might be the difference between a great result and just a mediocre result.
Nick VinZant 12:49
How much room for error do you generally have?
Dr. Gal Aharonov 12:52
I mean, it really depends on your expectations, right? I mean, okay, so let's say your, your nose needs, like, like you got a giant nose, okay, giant, where we could just put a little tiny bomb in there, detonate it, and you'll come out looking better. Right? So so you've got a lot of room for error. Now if let's say your nose is okay, but you got like this one little tiny thing about it you really wish was different. Now we've got less room for error. So so that's what you got to factor in. And sometimes you got to make patients aware of that.
Nick VinZant 13:32
Is there a part of the face that's like, Oh, this is the hardest part.
Dr. Gal Aharonov 13:36
Okay, so here's the thing, like as surgeons, especially nowadays, we become very Mitchie. Were okay, let's say, in our parents generation, you are lucky if your town even had a plastic surgeon or maybe a surgeon in general. So that surgeon got to do everything and people didn't expect much and Great, thanks, Doc. Right people who would bring you gifts and being so thankful and giving you high fives. And now it's like people's expectations are through the roof, and they want to go to the best person for that particular thing. It's very different. It's easy to find that person. So you got a nose person, that's all they do is noses and you've got an eyelid person. All they do is eyelids or any number, any feature there could be a extreme sub specialist in that field. Who that's what they do.
Nick VinZant 14:32
What do you know, what do you specialize in? Oh, man,
Dr. Gal Aharonov 14:35
I mean, I don't really want to talk about myself specifically. But yeah, I mean, like, I'm probably very well known for forehead reductions. Okay, that's like, one of my babies were like literally we have most of our patients are flying in from all over the world for this one surgery. And most surgeons haven't even heard of it. How do you Reduce
Nick VinZant 15:00
somebody's forehead.
Dr. Gal Aharonov 15:02
Oh, man. It's gruesome. It's gruesome. Imagine scalping someone. Alright, so you cut, they're, they're making incision and you're literally moving the whole scalp forward and cutting away the extra piece of forehead just to make their forehead smaller.
Nick VinZant 15:18
But are she like cutting apart their skull?
Dr. Gal Aharonov 15:22
Oh, no, you're just lifting, you're lifting the scalp off
Nick VinZant 15:26
the skull. You're like moving their head forward.
Dr. Gal Aharonov 15:30
Yes, moving the scalp forward.
Nick VinZant 15:33
I have always loved the joke about like, that's not a forehand. That's a six head or that's
Dr. Gal Aharonov 15:37
what it's a funny joke until you realize the person on the other side of that joke is now devastated forever. Right? Yeah, one joke. One joke. This is why I really like I'm sure. I don't know how you are. But I mean, I, you know, I tried to be funny when I was a kid. And, you know, sometimes, we don't know what our funny jokes are actually doing to someone we don't even recall. I had a I had a second cousin once. And, like 10 years after the fact, she told me that when we were kids, I made a made a joke about her acne. And further, and I don't even remember. And for the rest, and since then, she has been so mortified about her skin. And I had no recollection. And here I was with my words, I, I literally changed the way this girl sees herself.
Nick VinZant 16:37
You know, joking around with the friends, the guys, that kind of stuff. I don't point out anything physical about people anymore. Like I have completely stopped doing that. Because you don't like never one person can't usually do anything about it. And it's just, it's just a difficult thing. Well, you have some of your clients come in and be like, I've always just been self conscious about Oh,
Dr. Gal Aharonov 17:01
yeah. I mean, like, like, I have literally people that their whole life. Since they were eight. I'll ask them what how long has this been bothering you? Right? That's like one of my first questions, because you want to have a good assessment of how great of an effect this has even had on their life. And yes, people would be like, since I was a little kid, since my sister made this comment, since my mom made this comment. And it's, yeah, it's it's a huge way.
Nick VinZant 17:30
But then for you, you know, like as a plastic surgeon and other plastic surgeons, do you just notice kind of like everything with people's faces, like, Oh, I could do this to you, I could do this, you would look like this. Like,
Dr. Gal Aharonov 17:41
everybody assumes that when they're talking to me, I'm like, analyzing their face. And I'm just I don't I honestly I don't even look at people, because they think I've just been dumb to it now. And my wife might come back with a different haircut, or her eyebrows done. Or I've no idea. Like, I'm just like every other man, I have no idea. And my wife will be like, Hey, did you notice this about this person's face? And what? No, right? And now people are like, what kind of a plastic surgeon Are you? You don't notice anything? And I'm like, listen, that's mine. I don't want to make it my job to point out people's flaws. That's not fun. I'm here to kind of help someone who has been self conscious their whole life about something.
Nick VinZant 18:30
So being at a Beverly Hills, like I'm imagining that are most of your clients more vanity based, like? Or are they more like self conscious base? I know, that's kind of the same thing. But I think you know what I'm getting,
Dr. Gal Aharonov 18:44
I know what you're getting at then. And I'll tell you, I don't want people to get an idea that they could generalize this. Because everyone's practice is so different. And I feel like you as a person will attract a certain type of clientele. Right, a certain type. That's true. Yeah. And so if you put that energy out there that you just want to like, fix vanity, and then you're gonna get you're probably gonna get more vein people coming to you. You put the energy out there that you're really trying to help people that have some like huge insecurity or weight on them, you're gonna attract that so and that could change in a heartbeat like you one day you change the way that you speak and that's gonna affect like, how, how people come to you or see you.
Nick VinZant 19:35
So is there a percentage in terms of like, okay, if I do this many consultations, this many people will actually go through with
Dr. Gal Aharonov 19:41
it. Um, okay, so here I have, like plastic surgery, like medicine in general, is very gray. It's not always black and white. And we try to make it as black and white as possible with like, algorithms and all this stuff and and For some fields in medicine, it's very easy to do to have kind of an algorithm of how you treat something. But man, I'll tell you it's a static medicine is a dirty, dirty field, if people only knew it's dirty, because, okay, let me ask you this, like, how you how do you like to live your life? Like, how would you how would you categorize yourself? Are you a simple man? Simple. I'm a simple person, too. But let's say I wasn't right. Let's say, I liked having a boat. And I like to have a big house. Well, I got to pay for that. So how am I gonna pay for that? Well, sounds gonna be patients are going to come to my office. And even if I aren't, if I'm not even aware of it, subconsciously, I might have the weight of my mortgage on my mind.
Nick VinZant 20:51
It's true, you are making a sale at the same time making a
Dr. Gal Aharonov 20:55
sale. And that's true in all of medicine to some degree. But in esthetic medicine, forget about it. I mean, it is. I mean, who's to say who's to say what should be done or not?
Nick VinZant 21:09
I'll I can definitely see that right. And people who are just with you get an A sort of unscrupulous, unscrupulous, whatever, whatever one of those words is correct. So he's like, Well, I could do this too. I could do that. You should have that done. Yeah, I could definitely see it getting like, oh, yeah, sales, maybe
Dr. Gal Aharonov 21:26
it's people don't realize that. And here we are as a society. And we think that like, oh, you know, if someone has a lot of stuff, they must be really good at what they're doing. Or must be, like really successful. But maybe they're just a little greedier. Okay, so esthetics is its own separate beast now, because you can have some, like esthetic doctor in Turkey, making a ton of money, when other doctors aren't doing, like, aren't making anything there. But esthetics is a huge draw now.
Nick VinZant 22:02
How much? I mean, when you look at like most plastic surgeries, like how much are they usually cost it?
Dr. Gal Aharonov 22:08
But it could be it could range like crazy, like, Okay, if you're talking about noses, you could find someone willing to do your nose for practically nothing, right? Like maybe a couple of $1,000. Or maybe they'll even find a way to finagle doing it on insurance or something like that. And you get people charging 2030 $40,000 for a nose job. That's how that's how much of a range there there is for everything.
Nick VinZant 22:41
When you look at like other doctors, is there. Are there bad ones, basically like, oh, he screwed that one up?
Dr. Gal Aharonov 22:49
Oh, like, Okay, so now there's people that consistently screw things up. We're all going to screw something up. We're all going to screw something up. It's really about how often you do it. And if you're doing if you think you're going to hit a home run 99% of the time, forget about it. There's no way I mean, you're a lucky to make someone happy 99% of the time. And if you're doing 100 surgeries, that means one person's really unhappy.
Nick VinZant 23:21
And all you need is that one. Oh, he's
Dr. Gal Aharonov 23:23
the one they like the i I'm very sensitive man. Like if someone's unhappy, I take that really, really hard. Like I don't want someone to be unhappy with something that I've done.
Nick VinZant 23:37
Oh, let me ask you this for so like what kind of training generally like how much training does a plastic surgeon usually have to go through?
Dr. Gal Aharonov 23:42
So okay, so again, there's many different ways to get to become a plastic surgeon. But let's say typically, you know, you go to med school, and then you do a residency that typically it's a surgical residency, and then you could do a fellowship. There's all kinds of different fellowships. So that's like, if you could be a female, it could be like, with medical school, like, over a decade easy.
Nick VinZant 24:08
Alright, you ready for some harder slash listener submitted questions? Ah, bring it. Have you ever had somebody back out on the table?
Dr. Gal Aharonov 24:17
I've had to cancel some surgeries last second. Personally, not really on the table, but like in that holding room, right? Because like right before surgery, you're, you kind of see the patient in the pre op area. And yeah, I've cancer patients. I've had people. I don't think anyone backed out last second, but I've kind of felt that maybe the right thing would be to cancel because they're not ready. Right? And you don't want someone to have surgery just because they got to this point.
Nick VinZant 24:51
Can you pretty much like you've been doing it long enough. You can tell like okay, this person really doesn't know versus this person is just nervous.
Dr. Gal Aharonov 24:59
Oh, yeah. Yeah, but I try to suss them out beforehand. I spent a long time before we get to that point, you know, meet them the day before the week before, whatever, just like one last time before surgery. And I suss them out. Because listen, I don't want that. Like we said, I don't want an unhappy patient or someone who doesn't know what they're getting themselves into. I'm like, screw that. Like, why? Why is that worth it for me?
Nick VinZant 25:24
How come some people who have gotten plastic surgery don't look human anymore?
Dr. Gal Aharonov 25:29
Oh, man, I know, what are we doing to ourselves?
Nick VinZant 25:33
Is is that because they got a bad one? A couple of bad ones, or just you've done this too much.
Dr. Gal Aharonov 25:40
It could be anything like that. It could be any of those. It could be one bad thing just really screwed them up? It could be? Yeah, a few things that additively caused this. And why I mean, man, it could be their judgment. People come asking for craziest stuff all the time. And you got to talk sense into them. And some surgeons, that's that's their aesthetic. They kind of like that look, maybe or they think it looks good. I don't know.
Nick VinZant 26:12
What's the craziest request you've ever had?
Dr. Gal Aharonov 26:16
Listen, okay, there was a time where, literally, I was the world's leader in making dimples. Okay, put that into perspective. How crazy that is like somebody called my office once and asked if I do dimples, and I've never even never even crossed my mind. And not even a year later, I'm literally the world's expert at dimples because of that phone call. Right? So people ask for crazy as shit all the time. Hey, how do you make a dimple? Ah, you know, I like it. The simple answer is you literally make a little cut inside their mouth where dimple should be and you, you kind of like tie the muscle down and create a little little dimple. That's the simple answer.
Nick VinZant 27:10
This question is just should we be doing this? And I think what they mean by that is like, obviously, from a medical standpoint, like we can do it, we can take this thing from this part of your body and put it on your face. But I guess is there does it just work normally then?
Dr. Gal Aharonov 27:28
No. I always have the philosophy that like, anytime you cut yourself or do anything, things will just never be exactly the same. There's there's no there's no such thing as perfect surgery that has left no trace at all. I wish we never did any of this stuff. I'll be honest, I wish we lived in a world where we could all just be fully accepting of ourselves and our imperfections. But I just don't think we're built that way. I just don't think we are. And I think that like if they had this this type of ease 1000s of years ago, they would have done it back then.
Nick VinZant 28:12
Oh, yeah. No, I would say that we like we're never going to change. Right. It's one of those things. I understand what you mean, right? Like, we shouldn't be doing this. But we were always going to be doing this who is our who's easier to do surgeries on generally women or men?
Dr. Gal Aharonov 28:27
Oh, well, I mean, like, anatomically or just personality wise.
Nick VinZant 28:33
I guess both.
Dr. Gal Aharonov 28:34
I mean, anatomic? It depends. It really depends. Like for example, men's faces have a lot more vascularity. So they'll plead more when you do surgery. Like that's one thing I don't think most people know. They're just more vascular. But yeah, a lot of it is psychology. I think the hard part about plastic surgery is just like expectations. And because really, as a surgeon, you're like okay, well how am I going to meet this person's expectations or hopefully exceed them and there's just way more factors than just the that the actual surgical result and achieving that goal.
Nick VinZant 29:17
Hardest surgery. Easiest surgery, most painful surgery.
Dr. Gal Aharonov 29:23
I think I would say most plastic surgeons and esthetics would would say that rhinoplasty these are the hardest surgeries again, not because they're hard but because it's hard to get consistent results all the time. So that's the hard part. Easiest surgery look there's you could always make something hard or easy right? Anything we do we could there were there was like okay, like 50 years ago there were people doing rhinoplasty surgeries Okay, there was this guy name. I think his name was gold man, if I remember correctly, like really obviously he's dead now. But he would do these rhinoplasty is called the Goldman tip. It took him like five minutes to do five minutes, you'll go in there and with a knife, just go cut cut. And that was the surgery. It was called they did this thing called the Goldman tip surgery to narrow a tip. And it took five minutes to do. And he was world famous. I mean, look, here I am i I'm talking. I'm still known all this time, though, right? Don't know. And it was the easiest thing on on. And now no one should be doing that because it caused so much. So many long term issues. Oh, yeah, people couldn't even breathe afterwards. But they love their cute little tiny, narrow tip. I had a girl, I had a girl last week, and we're gonna do her rhinoplasty and I told them she couldn't breathe. And I'm like, listen, to get you to breathe. We got to make your nose a little wider right here. Because it's too narrow. It's just like, fuck that. No way. I'd rather not breathe.
Nick VinZant 31:03
I wonder how many people if you said, look, I can make your eyes look perfect. But you're only going to be able to see at one of them. How many people would probably be like, Okay,
Dr. Gal Aharonov 31:12
I'll bet some I'll bet more than we would expect.
Nick VinZant 31:16
Okay, I try to ask this question in a way that you can answer it. If you were to rank famous people on a scale of like 10 is the most famous people. And one is like they're famous, but like, what number would be the most famous person then you've consulted or operated while?
Dr. Gal Aharonov 31:34
You're probably nine, I would say
Nick VinZant 31:37
is pretty much everybody in Hollywood had one. Listen, we
Dr. Gal Aharonov 31:41
live in a world where what city? Do you live in? Seattle? Okay, so here in LA, the crazy thing? I think most 20 something year old normal girls have had something at this point. Isn't that crazy? That's crazy to me like that, it just becomes so normal now to just go get your lips done. Or go get a little something here or get a little bit. It's just crazy to me.
Nick VinZant 32:10
The only thing that I would say that annoys me about it. And I don't know if in no way is the right word. Give me some growth is when people don't admit to it, right? Like if a celebrity is just like, No, I just look like this. Or I just use this skincare product. When in reality like you've had all this stuff done. That's the only thing that I feel like they're creating an unrealistic expectation,
Dr. Gal Aharonov 32:35
you know what, and to me, it's like, I see being a role model is a huge responsibility. Right? So sometimes you got to think to yourself, like, for example, I don't really like being in public that much. Honestly, I kind of shy away from publicity. And it's just not my thing. I don't like being recognized. But if you're making a conscious effort to be a recognizable figure, and now you know that you are a role model, you've got to like, at least me, you got to see that as some responsibility. And now you got to ask yourself, Okay, well, what am I doing to people if I'm their role model?
Nick VinZant 33:17
Have you seen the movie face off? And it's
Dr. Gal Aharonov 33:20
so cool. Yeah. With Nicolas Cage. Could you do right? Yeah, it's, uh, maybe I think it'd be I, will we be there one day? I don't know. I think that's a little extreme. But if you think about, we could make so many modifications. Now, I have people bring in a picture of what they want to look like, whether it be a celebrity or whatever. And they're like, Okay, I need this a little bit more like this. And so it doesn't have to be so extreme, like, let's just switch faces. But is there's a lot we can do now.
Nick VinZant 33:53
Can you can you fundamentally change what somebody is look like? And I mean, that in the sense, like, can you take an apple and change it into an orange? Or can you just take take an apple and change it into a different kind of Apple?
Dr. Gal Aharonov 34:07
So I think there's like some things about us that are really recognizable. I don't know if you remember a few years ago. What's her name? What's that actress from? Bridget Jones's Diary. What was the name? Zellweger? Yeah, remember, Zellweger? Remember, people were just flipping out like what did you do to her face?
Nick VinZant 34:28
I do remember that kind of I remember Jerry Jones from the Cowboys when he like had like, whoa,
Dr. Gal Aharonov 34:33
you know what? And I get this all the time. So So sometimes we have a really recognizable feature about us. Whether it's be br eyes, or something or nose. Like oh, what's your name? JENNIFER GRAY. You remember JENNIFER GRAY from Dirty Dancing. No, you don't you know why? You know why don't remember her. She went she got a nose job. And she looks like Different person. And then And then so you look at at Renee Zellweger, she didn't really do that much she went, she got her some eyelid surgery just to cut away a little bit of the extra skin. And that just changed her look drastically. So you know, you sometimes you don't have to do that much to change your look drastically. But if it's like a really prominent feature on you like something that that is really weather striking. And when you are another what something that that kind of gives you your character. And if you change that sometimes even slightly, that can make a real big difference.
Nick VinZant 35:38
I do remember that now. And I think that she's in some new show. And I was like, Who the hell is
Dr. Gal Aharonov 35:44
that? Oh, yeah, you got the Google JENNIFER GRAY before all she did. She went she got her nose done. And it wasn't even a bad rhinoplasty. But she had like, it was just her feature. And she changed it and boom, poof, different person.
Nick VinZant 36:02
Now, could you see that comment ahead of time? Yeah, what used to be like cry change that. I
Dr. Gal Aharonov 36:06
say that all the time. That's my I tell that sometimes people listen, and sometimes they don't. And I'm like, ma'am, please don't change that about yourself. That's like your character. And they'll be I don't like my character. And you're like, Well, you say that now. But let's see you lose that and how you feel that?
Nick VinZant 36:26
That's true. Yeah, that's crazy, right? Like somebody has a very identifiable thing. And if they lose that, then you're like, oh, who the hell are you anymore? Um, oh, how can I spot a bad plastic surgeon?
Dr. Gal Aharonov 36:40
Yeah. It's so hard. It's so hard. Because Okay, I'll be honest, let's say nowadays, right? You, you look up someone's website, and you look at their reviews, and you look at their before and after photos. And you gotta you gotta say to yourself, even if you see a lot of great before and after photos. You don't know what percentage of the time they got that result? How that's yeah, people's truth about that, like, Okay, is it they just have good judgment about what a good result is? Like, can you imagine if you if you did 100 surgeries, and one of them turned out really great. But now you're only showing that one, you're not showing the 99 others that turned out horribly? People might think you're a great surgeon. These are the things the public, they just, you know, they're not awareness. Not you know, it's not like we're expecting to be aware. But, man, it's a it's very easy to manipulate people's opinions now, like, what makes a great surgeon now like the person who has the most followers on on tick tock? I get contacted all the time, like, hey, we have a spot available for this article. We're writing about the best plastic surgeons in America do you want to pay to be in it?
Nick VinZant 37:59
Next, that is for people who may not be aware, a lot of times when you see those kinds of Best of lists can be on that list all the time. All the time, pretty much now. Like they're usually pretty much bullshit,
Dr. Gal Aharonov 38:14
man. It's, yeah, it's all bullshit. And people don't know that. Right? Because people like they want to, to have some trust. They want to feel like they're going, they're going to have a great result. They're going to a great surgeon, but there's no way of knowing that's the scary part.
Nick VinZant 38:32
That's crazy, right? Um, where do you think it goes in the future?
Dr. Gal Aharonov 38:37
There, there's no end. There's no end. It's all going to be oh, here's Yeah, some new thing that is now easy to do. If we can make something easy, then there's a market for it. That's really, like that's the limiting factor. How many things can we make easy and accessible?
Nick VinZant 38:58
But do you think we'll even get to the point of like, well, you know what, your shoulder blade sticks out a little bit?
Dr. Gal Aharonov 39:04
Yes. Where there were there I know a surgeon who literally reduces the size of people's clavicles because it makes their their neck and shoulder looks better. It's not It's crazy or or reduce the size of someone's calves or make the calves bigger or so many things. There's no end there's listen as a person who literally for years was the world's dimple expert, and how ridiculous that is and how many people flew in for such a ridiculous thing. I am not surprised by anything anymore.
Nick VinZant 39:43
Who has the world's dental title now who did you lose the title? No,
Dr. Gal Aharonov 39:46
I stopped doing them because I just found it to be so ridiculous and I wanted to pursue other things. So years ago, I stopped promoting it. I stopped like I turned people away. We don't really promote it. I think there's a guy in Georgia now who basically does a lot of them and promotes himself as doing them. I don't know him personally, but he's, he's now the king, I lost my I lost my crown.