Dr. Rob Whitfield explains his plastic surgery approach: removing breast implants with capsular removal and fat grafting for patients with implant illness, plus minimally invasive techniques like radiofrequency skin-tightening and genetic testing to optimize aging. He screens over 250 food sensitivities and runs full metabolic panels before any procedure.
Welcome to Dr. Rob's Solutions. This is my YouTube channel where you get to learn the things that aren't so apparent or obvious. So I'm a plastic surgeon in Austin, Texas, and not a traditional plastic surgeon in the sense that all we do is remove tissue and tighten skin surgically. But we're holistic in nature, scientific in approach. And so, for instance, we remove breast implants rather than put them in. And so why do I do that? I do what's called a holistic mommy makeover for patients with or without implants, with or without other problems like breast implant illness. And the nature of it is to take out old implants with their entire capsules and then restore or rejuvenate the breast with their own fat, which is holistic in nature. Everybody wants to avoid a tummy tuck scar. And that's always been the question. When that come to see me, they're really, Dr. Whitfield, I do it, but I don't want that scar. So how do we avoid that scar? Well, we do it using a smart tummy tuck procedure. So in this procedure, we utilize skin tightening technology. Body tight, for instance, in this procedure. And that warms the tissues in the deep and intermediate layers of fat on the abdomen. That tightens it. We also tighten the skin with microneedling, but we also shrink the fatty layer with liposculpture. We do all of this under local in the office. People walk out, they return to normal activities within a day or two. And so the downtime is minimal, and then your recovery period is shortened because you didn't have general anesthesia. That's just one of our many smart procedures. We have them for arms, your abdomen, of course, hips and thighs, and of course your knees. So every year, facelift as a procedure performed in the United States decreases. And so why would that happen? Are we not aging as fast? Well, several things are in play here. So the use of Botox, the use of fillers, but more importantly, the use of skin tightening technologies, or now the zoom lift. So a zoom lift is a technique where we, through very small incisions, one to two millimeter openings, pass a fiber optic light connected to a suture, and that will tighten the tissue underneath the jawline. And if we perform it in conjunction with something like face tight to perform radio frequency skin tightening and microneedling, we can really reduce the aging of the face around the cheeks, the jowls, and the neck itself. So that's my minimally invasive facelift. Number one question I get asked after I explain a procedure is what's the downtime, Dr. Whitfield? How long is it going to take? Well, let's back up a little bit and say, all right, food is our fuel. So what we want to do is make sure that everything you eat is going to work for you to enhance your recovery, decrease your downtime. So we do food sensitivity testing to over 250 foods, and it's a blood draw. Once we get this report back, it helps you really outline your diet. That's going to help you recover fast, faster. We also look at your thyroid function, your complete metabolic panel, your lipids, as well as your sex hormones. For everything to work properly, your thyroid has to be in balance as well as your other sex hormones have to be in balance. And if you need testosterone replacement or estrogen replacement, we can provide that, too. In addition, if you have other things that are a little bit more complicated, like an exposure, say mold or an environmental toxicity, we do panels to check that as well. And then probably our most important and really interesting test that we've added is through the DNA company. So everybody wants to know how to not age or age gracefully. Slow down the aging process, if you will. So using your own genetic material, we want you to feel as young as you look, but we obviously want to do that in the most holistic way possible. Tune in and subscribe to my channel. Dr. Rob Solutions.
