I have a confession
I have a confession…
There are some really great makeover shows on television and my wife and I are some of the loyal viewers. We watch for the entertainment value of course, but as a Toronto plastic surgeon myself, I am becoming more and more concerned with the way that the real plastic surgery in Toronto is being masked by smoke and mirrors. Don’t get me wrong. These shows are showing the public how generally safe and affordable plastic surgery in Toronto really is, but sometimes they neglect to show significant parts of these procedures leaving the viewer with a somewhat clouded picture of what really happens.
This may lead some viewers to take these shows a bit too literal. We were watching an episode of one of these plastic surgery shows recently and one of the doctors performed a new procedure on a patient. He was using barbed sutures or a thread lift to perform a brow lift. For whatever reason the editors of the show neglected to illustrate the surgeon’s commentary about how the Toronto cosmetic surgery procedure did not offer long-term results, nor did they include the fact that his new procedure did not produce more than humble results. The show then presented the patients first visit after the procedure and the surgeon admiring the results.
Less than a month later the patient’s amazing results had almost completely disappeared and the lady got no other benefit from the new surgery. To the surgeon’s credit, he did later publish an article stating that his new plastic surgery procedure did not have the results that he had hoped for and that he no longer would be offering the cosmetic surgery procedure in his Toronto clinic. He went as far as to show a picture of the lady on the television show as an example of how the procedure did not give any credible results. This is just another example of television editing out the stuff it doesn’t want it’s viewers to see. If something is too good to be true, it probably is. Don’t believe everything you see on TV my friends.


