“Plastic Surgeons, What’s The Most Ridiculous Surgery You’ve Performed?”

My father used to be a plastic surgeon and when he still was he kept a record of all the men wanting to have breast implants. In the end he had an entire shelf full of pagers of men and the dates of when they asked. Now he's retired.

In the UK a few years ago indian men would try and get their wives/girlfriends special hymen surgery to sew it up so it made them feel like a virgin. Very sick, urgh.

My husband works for a well known doctor in Miami. The doctor is moving away from BBLs because of the high risks involved. My husband says MOST surgeries are not needed and they do a lot of surgeries just fixing previous surgeries that weren’t done right. My husband REFUSES for me to ever get surgery- not that I want surgery but I get the sentiment, too risky.
He’s worked at what is called ‘chop shops’ here and there many years ago and says those are crazy, tons of patients and many of them BBLs. Super dangerous! He won’t work there anymore because he doesn’t want to be associated with them. The doctor he works for is a good, safe doctor but there’s always risks involved and they spend a lot of time ‘managing expectations’ because things will never be perfect.

Did lipo on an 18yo girl's ankles the other day. Personally I didn't think they looked that bad but she was seriously bothered by them and getting depressed. And apparently was getting teased by other girls at school too. Turned out great and she's totally happy. For ethic's sake I had to make sure her parents were on board for the surgery as she had just recently turned 18 though.

Not exactly on topic, but working at an animal hospital I once had a client ask if puppies are supposed to be circumcised.

I did a short internship at a Smartlipo place. A well known, famous weight loss advocate came in for liposuction.

Someone tried to get one single superboob.

That Barbie one is pretty nuts, as is the Ken Doll. Please, do not google real ken doll, because the guy is nuts.

Beverly Hills Plastic surgeon awake and present. I would say fox eye lift, threads lifts and rib removal. The rest: when done on the right patient by the right surgeon are reasonable surgeries.

I'm not a surgeon, just a surg tech, but I scrubbed in on a herniated nipple repair for a 16yo girl. Herniated nipples are normally referred to as puffy nipples in layman's terms. Sure, they can be extreme sometimes, but this girl just had your garden variety, most people quite enjoy, kind.

As it turned out, the way to correct them is to trim a little fat out from under the nipple and enlarge the rest of the breast to smooth them out more. Insurance covered it because it was considered non cosmetic due to being a hernia repair.

Edit: I just realized I was a bit vauge/misleading in my initial discription of what was considered wrong with her. I used "nipple" as a broad term, but it was technically her areola that was a bit puffy.

Used to do internet marketing for plastics. We'd occasionally see some of the emails sent via the website (I know, I know, HIPAA) and it's cause a few laughs.

This one time, though, this 15 or 16 year old high school girl emailed asking for a labiaplasty consult. I (of course) kept reading, and it turns out that she wanted one because the girls in her locker room made fun of the size of her labia...

I was waiting for a consultation as a patient and overheard a girl on the phone. She told the person on the other side " I'm waiting for the doctor to find out how much to have the gap between my legs." I was very confused, until I mentioned it to a male friend who informed me of the gap between the thighs. I was baffled.

Not a plastic surgeon, but limb lengthening surgery. Permanently disabled to be a few inches taller? No thanks.

Sister is an opthalmic surgeon, and her take on LASIK is terrifying.

A coworker had a tummy tuck/abdominoplasty in Mexico - healing didn’t go as planned, so she ended up having to go to a wound care specialist to try to get it fixed. She ended up having to have a plastic surgeon fix everything.

She tried to save $30K by having the surgery in Mexico, but ended up spending over $45K because of complications and having to had the surgery completely re-done in the US.

I'm late to the party, so my comment probably won't be seen, but I saw an advertisement on a web page for clavicle shortening surgery. I was really confused and read a bit more - it's a procedure to make your shoulders broader. I'm still a bit baffled, as it seems like a really extensive surgery for a not very noticeable result.

I’d stay away from anything that involves going to another country to get something discount. One of the issues with surgery, any surgery, is that they often have complications. Good luck finding a surgeon to touch you when it isn’t his/her work, let alone it being done at some shady center outside the country. You could either find yourself paying insanity level money for correction or simply live as whatever monster a shady butcher leaves you as. .