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But almost every performer wants to project an image of natural beauty and do not want to admit to cosmetic plastic surgery. So the procedures must be done in secret. While Dr. Face has performed hundreds of celebrity face lifts, Dr. Body has done an equal number of breast augmentations on top models.

Currently, word is out among photographers that Paris Hilton wants to correct a sagging eyelid that supposedly resulted from an eyelid lift some years ago. So the camera-carrying throng is especially active in Beverly Hills.

Both surgeons are book authors and frequently appear on educational television programs like Discovery Channel, Dr. 90210, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and many others.

Doctors Face and Body are members in good standing with:

• The American Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery and Reconstructive Surgery.
• American Board of Plastic Surgery
• The American Medical Association

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Dr. Face: Did you notice the swarms of photographers and paparazzi on the sidewalk outside my office?

Dr. Body: I could not miss them! The tabloid photographers are staking out the offices of the most likely plastic surgeons, hoping to catch a picture of some star going or coming. Now, there is a law in California reining in reckless paparazzi. (Read more about reckless photographers trying to get pictures of stars after plastic surgery and other activities.)

Dr. Face:  Many people don’t know it, but the tabloids have a literal army of tipsters who do well financially just letting the photographers know what celebrity is going to be where and when. That “army” includes waiters, waitresses, parking lot attendants and even clerks who may work next door to us.

Dr. Body: Sure, they all want to make stars’ cosmetic surgery public knowledge but health professionals are required by law, ethics and good business sense to make sure everything is done quietly. So how do you do it?

Dr. Face: I usually use several layers of concealment. Only a few of us in the office will know about an invented name we use for the celebrity’s paperwork. After that, we refer to him or her by that name because anybody may hear a casual mention of the star and then pass it on to the press. And, so far, knock on wood, our back entrance seems to work for celeb patients going home without being seen after surgery. Also, I know of some plastic surgeons who have separate waiting rooms for celebrities.

Dr. Body: I’ve found that weekends are a good time to perform plastic surgery on celebrities. I’ve also frequently arranged surgery at 4 a.m. while it’s still dark outside and before photographers and their many tipsters are awake, searching for the next big picture.

Dr. Face:  It can be kind of crushing at times when you may have struck up a nice relationship with a celebrity but then, when you run into each other away from the office, that person does not speak because his livelihood can depend on not knowing plastic surgeons.

Dr. Body: It was so much simpler back in Hollywood’s golden era; many celebrities before plastic surgery become so common used actual sticky tape to hold back sagging facial tissues for a short while.

Dr. Face: Many stars come in for facial fillers and Botox before special occasions like the Emmy awards or the Oscars. Then, there is only an office visit to worry about and no danger of being seen in public with facial bruising or dressings.

Dr. Body: And it’s not only performers who want cosmetic plastic surgery in secret. We also see producers, directors, TV news anchors and journalists who want a refreshed look – but strictly on the Q.T.

Dr. Face:  After plastic surgery — because of bruising, dressings and the other signs of a recent surgery — we also have special nurses. They escort famous face lift patients to an aftercare facility and stay with them for 24 hours, sometimes for several days.

Dr. Body: For the celebrity,  is there another trip involved back to your office for the morning after surgery check?

Dr. Face: Many times, it is easier for me to go to the aftercare facility to check on the patient rather than sending him or her out in public again.

Dr. Body: Is there anything in particular you tell your celebrity patients about keeping surgery private and quiet?

Dr. Face: I always tell them not to drive their own cars to my office.

Dr. Body: Why is that?

Dr. Face:  Because every paparazzo in Hollywood and Beverly Hills knows the stars’ license plate numbers by heart!

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View some of Dr. Body’s revision breast plastic surgeries.

Look at some of Dr. Face’s rhinoplasty before and after pictures.

Worldwide, recipients of plastic surgery procedures have sent their post-surgical reactions (and thanks) to Stuart Linder, M.D. (who blogs as Dr. Body) and to

Jointly, Drs. Face and Body have 60 years of experience performing cosmetic plastic surgery patients on 10,000 patients, many of whom have traveled to Beverly Hills from foreign lands.

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Dr. Face (Dr. Kotler): I received an interesting letter from a potential Italian patient. The man is very good at crunching numbers about the cost of plastic surgery.

Dr. Body (Dr. Linder): What did he have to say?

Dr. Face:  He has in mind coming here for a rhinoplasty and tells me it costs less for him to fly to Beverly Hills, have surgery, recover for ten days and then fly back home rather than have a similar surgery in Switzerland…..which is two hours from his home.

Dr. Body: And so the relatively weak dollar has spoken!

Dr. Face: What has your patient mail revealed lately, doctor?

Dr. Body: Well, I hear from former patients frequently although none are as good with an adding machine as your Italian correspondent.

Dr. Face:  Such as?

Dr. Body: Listen to this one: D.A., a Canadian woman from Alberta, sent a note saying how she was hesitant at first to cross the border after she had a botched breast augmentation near her home. But she came to Beverly Hills for a revision breast enhancement anyhow. After she healed, she wrote, and I quote: “I’m so glad I made the trip! I’ve got the hottest tatas ever!”

Dr. Face: I received a similar letter from a former rhinoplasty patient, Salome S. who flew here from Ethiopia. After going back home, she sent a note saying, “The hands of god must have guided you, as I feel so blessed!” I’m glad she was so pleased with nose surgery but, really, we don’t anoint people, we just do cosmetic plastic surgery!

Dr. Body: A flight from Ethiopia had to involve several stops at least. I received an extremely praiseworthy note from S.N., a woman from Singapore who came for a Beverly Hills breast lift and tummy tuck. She wrote: “I would make the 20-hour flight again to repair what having three children had taken away…”

Dr. Face:  20 hours in a plane! She should be anointed!

Dr. Body: L.K., another breast revision patient had breast enlargement in Hungary, her home country, but she did not like the results because one breast was higher than the other. After revision surgery in Beverly Hills, she sent back a note saying “her girls” are now bigger and they look the same.

Dr. Face: I saw another Italian patient for rhinoplasty who has no gripes at all about airplanes, probably because she is an attendant on international flights.  She writes that she thinks of us every time she looks at her nose in the mirror. Plus, when she tells friends about her nose job, they always tell her how natural her results looks.

Dr. Body: Here’s another good letter: A.M. from Puerto Rico had one of the most unusual complications known in breast surgery. She had three previous breast augmentations in her home country when the implants rolled together to form what is sometimes known as a “uniboob.” Medically, the condition is known as symmastia or a double bubble breast deformity. Look at her before and after breast surgery revision pictures and you can see how rare the condition is. I might also add – with all modesty – it is equally rare to find a breast revision surgeon with symmastia repair experience.

Dr. Face:  We also have some international patients from Indonesia, Kuwait and a few other nations who have second homes in Los Angeles or Beverly Hills. They frequently have cosmetic surgery for themselves, their teens and other family members while visiting. Some live here half of each year.

Dr. Body: What types of services does your office provide for international patients?

Dr. Face: Because California law and good medical ethnics require doing surgery only on healthy patients, we must have a physical exam completed before surgery. But it can be done from the patient’s home nation. International patients always enjoy looking at before and after facial plastic surgery pictures, too.

Dr. Body: Same for us, our patients must have a physical exam, too. Do you also do “virtual exams” so that you give patients a brief look through email, Skype or over the phone?

Dr. Face:  Indeed we do, doctor! And that will be the topic – Virtual Exams – of our next blog post.

Read how cosmetic plastic surgery appointments work for Dr. Kotler’s Out-of-Town Patients.

Learn how international patients can make arrangements for plastic surgery with Dr. Linder.

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