Richard: Yes. Two questions. How long does it last and have you ever worked on any of your family members?

Dr. Michael Salzhauer: Oh, great question. It depends on the operation, the answer to your first question, how long it lasts.

Richard: With a nose.

Dr. Michael Salzhauer: Rhinoplasty lasts forever. For example, most people come in, they have a dorsal hump, you know a bump on the nose, and once you take that down that doesn't grow back. That lasts forever. Other operations like facelifts and breast lifts have different life spans, so to speak. A facelift typically lasts 7-10 years, and again it doesn't mean that after 7-10 years it's like poof, you turn into a pumpkin and it's like you never had the surgery before. It just means that after you have a facelift, time to continues to run obviously and you continue to age. But what a facelift accomplishes is that it sets back the clock about 10 years. So if you're 50, let's say, and you have your first facelift, you might look 40, and then in 10 years you'll look just like you did before you had your facelift, but you won't be any worse for the wear and you certainly won't look 60. Again, that's pretty typical for a facelift. Obviously, you're going to look the very best that first year after the facelift and every year after that, again, gravity's going to take its effect. If it comes to the eyes, blepharoplasty, upper and lower eyelid surgery, that's about the same amount of time. It's done a little bit longer. Usually upper eyelids don't start to show signs of aging again for about 12-15 years until you need the second excision of more skin. Of course, breast lifts, depending on whether the patient gets pregnant again in the interim or how large the breasts are, whether implants are used or not, also can show signs of relapse or sagging again after 10 years. So again, remember we're just setting the clock back. We're not curing, with the exception of what you mentioned, the nose, which actually does last forever. Once we change the shape of the nose, it pretty much stays put until you get very old. In any case, different operations last different lengths of time. What was Richard's second question? Oh, about my family, right?

Jeannine Morrissette: Have you ever done a family member?

Dr. Michael Salzhauer: Yeah. Well at the risk of embarrassing anybody with particular names, I will say yes, I have operated on family members. I've done their eyes and certainly do all their Botox and Restylane and fillers and things like that.

Jeannine Morrissette: And also his staff members.

Dr. Michael Salzhauer: Yeah, and I do my staff members also, which to me is a great boon in confidence because it's sort of like the equivalent of a chef eating in his own restaurant or the waiter eating in their own restaurant. Once you've been in the kitchen sometimes, you don't want to eat the food, but I consider it a great compliment that my staff and friends and family trust me enough to let me do their surgeries. Every surgeon has their own feelings about operating on family members. Some are uncomfortable but I feel confident enough and I feel like my facilities are safe enough that I put my own family–

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