349: My Explant, Capsulectomy, and Lift! Meet My Surgeon Dr. Ricky Brown
Midlife Conversations with Natalie Jill
Natalie Jill
4.8 • 607 Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss:
- Why implants are making people sick
- The effects of impants on autoimmune diseases
- Is having an explant right for you?
- How a rupture can effect your liver and other organs
- What is the biofilm theory
Dr. Richard (Ricky) Brown is a highly skilled plastic surgeon with over a decade of experience in his field. As an expert plastic and reconstructive surgeon, Dr. Brown is dedicated to helping others feel confident in their own skin.
A native of Atlanta, he earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia. Before attending medical school in Chicago, Dr. Brown developed an interest in surgery while working as an orderly cleaning up operating rooms at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta. He was eventually able to observe many surgeries, and the more he saw performed, the more he knew he wanted to become a surgeon.
He earned his medical degree from The Chicago Medical School. Dr. Brown first came to appreciate the specialty of plastic and reconstructive surgery during his general surgery training at one of Chicago’s inner city hospitals. He saw the power of plastic surgery in changing and restoring lives after trauma.
Working with plastic surgery residents there, he conducted innovative research on the topic of scarring and wound healing. During that time, he wrote papers that were published in one of the top plastic surgery journals, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. After completing medical school, he attended Northwestern University to complete his General Surgery residency.
Dr. Brown went on to become certified by the American Board of Surgery in General Surgery and complete his residency training in the field of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) in Omaha. He now has board certifications in both general surgery and plastic surgery.
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| 0:00.0 | lot of women, it's like the big question we get is, what am I going to look like when I take them out? None of us can really tell you. What we can tell you is we get an idea of whether you're going to need a lift or not need a lift from how stretch out your skin is. We can do a pinch test to try to quantify how much breast tissue you have. So the general comment I give people is the following. You're going to be smaller. You're definitely going to be smaller. |
| 0:21.1 | You're not going to have the upper pole volume that you used to have. |
| 0:24.2 | And you're going to have something and you're going to have some tissue. |
| 0:27.3 | You just need to be prepared for being very small. |
| 0:32.6 | Hi, I'm Natalie Jill and I help women in their 40s, 50s and beyond, redefine, rebrand, and laugh with aging. |
| 0:39.2 | Welcome to midlife conversations. On this podcast, I do what I do best, taking complicated |
| 0:45.3 | information that is relevant in this point of our lives now and break it down simply with |
| 0:50.8 | actionable steps you can implement to level up your life. I also regularly interview |
| 0:56.1 | some of the most inspiring people living their best midlife years now. On this show, I cover |
| 1:01.3 | topics about our shifting hormones, weight struggles, our mood and focus changes, raising teenagers, |
| 1:07.5 | our relationships, career changes, beauty, and more. If you are new here, I encourage |
| 1:12.0 | you go back and listen from episode one when this podcast was previously called Listen Up |
| 1:16.7 | for the full transformative experience. Today on Midlife Conversations, I can't wait for this |
| 1:24.5 | conversation because my Instagram, especially DMs, have been blowing up with |
| 1:28.1 | questions and I didn't have the answers to all of them. I'm talking to my surgeon, Dr. Ricky Brown. |
| 1:33.3 | He is a board certified plastic surgeon. He's who personally just did my ex-plant and lift. |
| 1:39.8 | And there's a lot of questions that have been coming in. I've been trying to answer him as fast as I can. |
| 1:44.2 | I've also been blowing up him personally with my own personal questions. So selfishly, this episode is as much for you as it is for me because I've got a lot of questions too. So thanks so much for being here. I can't wait to talk to you. Yeah, it's going to be great. I'm excited. First, I want to start with how did I end up working with you? How did I end up going with you? A lot of people have asked that. |
| 1:45.7 | I shared... Yeah, it's going to be great. I'm excited. First, I want to start with how did I end up working with you? |
| 2:01.4 | How did I end up going with you? A lot of people have asked that. I shared, you know, it was about six or seven years ago. I had had a botched surgery and I had an amazing doctor, Dr. Kat Begavik fixed me. She had fixed me in L.A. and I was super happy with the results. |
| 1:58.1 | And the first question that came out is why did I not go to her? |
| 2:01.9 | What made me switch surgeons and go? And the main reason I wanted to share |
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