Category: Philosophy 101

The three comments that I often hear both in the office and socially are: “Dr. Persky,can you tell when someone has had some plastic surgery done?”  “Doc, why does everyone who has plastic surgery look the same?”   “I want to look better, but I don’t want those big apple cheeks and hugh lips!” We […]

John Lennon sang “Love is the Answer”, me thinks that the appeal of ABC’s reality show “The Bachlorette” is just that.  The masses are hoping that Emily Maynard, 26, finds elusive love…in the most unnatural of circumstances.  Today word that Ms. Maynard wishes to have the reality cameras follow her through her engagement, and pray […]

RealSelf.com is the premiere plastic surgery patient “chat line” that not only allows the public to chat with each other online, but also allows the public to ask  plastic surgery or non-invasive aesthetic procedure questions that are answered by the large group of plastic surgery experts.  Michael A. Persky, MD and Sarmela Sunder, MD are participants in RealSelf.com’s […]

One of my holiday wishes is that the Kardashians become friends with the housewives of Beverly Hills.  The combination of their respective nothing to do with reality “reality” shows would save unsuspecting masses of Americans at least an hour a week of wasted time.  Multiply that by millions of viewers, and just think of the […]

Occupy Wall Street, protesting the greed of our nation has much food for fodder.  So much so that one of the most popular Halloween costumes this year was folks casually dressed with “Occupy Bel Air” (or you fill in the place) signs.  The $10 million dollar Kardashian wedding farce that lasted 72 days, please.  “Beverly […]

Sarmela Sunder, MD presented an excellent and informative power point presentation this evening at an open house to meet Drs. Sunder and Persky at Ruth Swissa Spa in Agoura Hills where celebrity clients from Malibu, Hidden Hills, Calabasas , Westlake, Thousand Oaks, and adjacent areas come for their facial aesthetic rejuvenating treatments. The Persky Sunder Plastic Surgery philosophy emphasizes […]

At the gym a recent morning I met a patient who said, “Oh, don’t look at this on my lip, it’s not a cold sore.  I thought it was a pimple and squeezed it, but nothing came out.  Now look how gross it looks.”  To which I, who had not noticed it because the women […]

“Time flies like an arrow.  Fruit flies like a banana.” Consulting with a rhinoplasty patient today, the common question, “How long will the surgery take?’ was asked.  My answer is, “It may take anywhere from one and a half  to three hours.  I don’t know how long it will take.  Rhinoplasty is an art, a sculpting art on […]

Your silent tents of green We deck with fragrant flowers; Yours has the suffering been, The memory shall be ours. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow It is with solemn reflection that we remember those who paid the ultimate sacrifice in support of our liberty, freedom, and the values that they represented so that our children, our children’s children, as well […]

I attended our high school reunion recently.  Hamilton High School, Los Angeles, CA.   One of my female classmates (whom I had not seen or heard from in 40 years), who now “works with children” shared with my wife and I,in a degrading fashion, that in elementary school I was “such a little boy” and that I probably still was.  […]

“Dream as if you’ll live forever.  Live as if you’ll die today.”  ~James Dean Recently a lovely woman visited my office in consultation along with her mother who was visiting from the midwest.  When I asked, “What brings you in today?”, she responded, “Well when I initially scheduled this consultation it was to discuss how I […]

“Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations.” – Charles Dickens, Great Expectations    “Great Expectations” is not only a Charles Dickens classic novel, but also the standard that plastic surgeons are held to on a daily basis.  One of the most important aspects of […]