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Hi again everyone, Äôm Kandace Krueger along with Jim Knox and
wÄôre back again with another edition of the Best Docs
Network, of course, Jim, featuring some of the best
doctors in all of the Dallas and Fort Worth area that are helping
to change peoplÄôs lives.
And speaking, Kandace, of helping change peopleÄôs lives,
how about we open with one of the top plastic surgeons in the
entire Dallas, Fort Worth area, it is Dr. John Barnett.
I didÄôt have PolandÄôs Syndrome but it was like it
where one breast is significantly bigger than the
other, so I was like a B and a C.
It affects everything, the way you dress, the way you wardrobe
is, the things you can and canÄôt buy and as a woman you
want to be able to just go buy it because you like it and you
want to wear it not because of the way iÄôs shaped or formed
around your breast area.
I just got tired of feeling like that and I knew that after
having a child it still didÄôt change.
I finally said enough is enough and I went and saw Dr. Barnett.
Kaleah was a special case.
This was actually more of a reconstruction than it was
simple augmentation.
There was nothing simple about that case.
She had vast asymmetry of the breast.
Asymmetry means one is not the same size or shape as the other.
In KaleahÄôs case this one never developed and this one was
what yoÄôd call a tube sock, elongated, hanging down, this
one was barely there.
Usually should have been a two stage operation and I told her
going in that I can do so much but probably yoÄôre going to
need another operation.
We talked about it and looked at the pictures and the kind of
surgery I needed and required with what I had should have been
a two step, possibly three step operation.
And what Dr. Barnett did was just a one step operation and
thaÄôs all it took.
I was able to in one stage create a matched pair.
It worked out beautifully.
IÄôs been a year now and she looks fabulous and shÄôs happy
as a clam.
Is it rewarding?
Yeah, really is, thaÄôs a special case.
Dr. Barnett treats his patients like family.
He will give you his cell phone number to make sure you can
always be in contact with him if you ever need anything before
and after surgery.
IÄôm happy and glad to know that I safely chose him.
IÄôve had no complications, you canÄôt even see my scars.
He changed my life forever.
It was the best decision I ever made.
As I was aging I guess, my teeth werenÄôt as pretty as they used
to be so I found that I wasÄôt smiling as much as I used to.
You know SandÄôs a very beautiful lady.
A lot of the patients I see, probably a majority of the
patients I see are women you know over the age of 40, who a
lot of times you know they take care of themselves, they stay in
shape, they look great but thereÄôs just some things they
want to do to try to look younger and for Sandy you know
getting her teeth whiter, straightened up a little bit
with the veneers was perfect for her.
IÄôve seen a lot of Dr. LewisÄôs work and have been so
impressed so I came to see him and IÄôm so glad I did because
now I smile all the time.
It just really works great for a lot of people and she was a
perfect candidate for that.
IÄôs amazing to me that doing the veneers like we did for her
which is a pretty simple two visit process two or three weeks
apart, what a difference it can make in how someone looks.
I mean literally 10 or 15 years younger.
IÄôs painless, it doesnÄôt take long.
Dr. Lewis is very sensitive to your feelings and how you want
to look.
HÄôs a good listener.
He listened to how I wanted my smile and my teeth to look and
he did exactly what I wanted.
It can be done so to where iÄôs not like people look at
you and go wow where did you have your teeth done, but they
look at you and go man you look great, what have you done?
Have you been working out more or you just look, so itÄôs a
for some people if their teeth are really bad yeah iÄôs going
to be a noticeable change but for other people itÄôs just one
of those things to where you just look good, you look more
alive, you look more refreshed, you just look better but itÄôs
not just a glaring oh what did you do to your teeth?
My family would say, okay what did you do, somethinÄôs
different, yoÄôre smile is beautiful, did you get your hair
cut?
I just feel so good about my smile now.
Smiling is good.
IÄôm not a big fan of going to the dentist so this was a big
deal for me and I would do it again in a heartbeat.
For more information on any of the doctors youÄôve seen on
todayÄôs show, be sure to check out our website,
bestdocsnetwork.com.
And now wÄôre going to check in with our next best doctor,
iÄôs bariatric surgeon from My Bariatric Solutions, Dr. Scott
Stowers.
At the age of 25 about 15 years ago I was diagnosed with high
blood pressure and with the high blood pressure came three
medications.
I had a family history of heart disease and had seen a
cardiologist since I was 10.
I had you know just a lot of weight gain with having two
children.
My grandmother had both legs amputated with diabetes, then my
father has diabetes and you know just the family history.
Lisa is an example of one of our patients that came to see me for
the typical problems of inability to lose a significant
amount of weight that would affect her health.
Several different doctors for 15, 20 years had been saying
that you know if you could lose 70 pounds and keep it off you
would get rid of the high blood pressure.
There is a huge possibility that you will not be diabetic that
even your heart condition would be just almost completely
resolved and you could even get off of all of the medications.
So I chose the gastric sleeve procedure which for me was just
the best choice.
For a sleeve patient they typically need to be at least 70
pounds overweight.
The sleeve is a relatively new procedure that we do where we
take out about 80 percent of the stomach.
The whole concept of the surgery is just restrictive in nature
where they essentially are on a low calorie diet for the rest of
their life but theyÄôre not hungry all the time.
I came in, I met with the actual surgeon.
I actually sat down with Dr. Stowers and he was amazing.
Somebody who just totally makes you feel comfortable.
He answered every question, he was very honest with me and
reassuring.
It was just beyond belief that he was able to make me feel so
comfortable.
At one week postop I was literally off of all of my
medications.
It had already made that big of a difference.
Within a year sheÄôd lost about 80 pounds.
I reached my goat weight.
IÄôs been great going from a size 18, 20 and an extra large
shirt to a size 8, 10 and a medium shirt.
I never thought IÄôd see that again, so iÄôs been really
exciting.
Is your energy lacking?
Though it may be the last thing you feel like doing, when
youÄôre tired exercise.
Even a brisk walk can be more effective than a nap or a cup of
coffee for fighting fatigue.
I had my gastric bypass in May of 2011 and after two years I
lost 100 pounds.
After losing 100 pounds I had a log of excess skin on my belly,
IÄôve always been big around my belly area, thatÄôs where I
carried all my weight.
I felt very unhealthy with it and wanted it removed.
The problem is when you lose that much weight your body and
your skin cannot go back to where you would like it to go
back without help.
And thereÄôs no way with exercise that you can get rid of
the extra skin thatÄôs hanging that has been stretched out,
often has a lot of stretch marks and in some patients you do need
to do a brachioplasty or remove skin from the arms, in some also
you need to do a breast lift, in some you have to do a facelift
to correct the extra skin around the face.
So everyoneÄôs a little bit different.
In KareÄôs case her major problem was her abdomen where
she had all this extra skin that she wanted removed, that she
could not get rid of despite the fact that she ate well and
despite the fact that she was working out regularly.
When I came to see Dr. Azouz I weighed 151 and that was because
I was still carrying all the fat that was around my belly.
He had explained to me the different procedures that he
has.
He explained to me the tummy tuck in particular, it was what
I was interested in.
When he examined me he found a hernia which he repaired while
he did my tummy tuck.
Dr. Azouz cut off 8 pounds of fat from my belly.
And of course her skin was very poor quality.
It had all been stretched out from when she was a size 24 or
26.
Once I had my tummy tuck done I dropped like 4 sizes right away.
Dr. Azouz told me when I had the tummy tuck I would lose another
20 pounds plus what he cut off and I did.
I started at 248 before my weight loss and after my tummy
tuck Äôm now at 124, size 0.
DonÄôt forget for more information about any of our
outstanding doctors you see on todayÄôs show, even request an
appointment, you can head to the website, bestdocsnetwork.com,
that is bestdocsnetwork.com.
And now our next life changing story is going to be with spine
surgeon Dr. Michael Rimlawi.
Well in 2004 I started having sciatic nerve problems running
down my right leg and went to the doctor several times and you
know the normal thing is to give you some muscle relaxers and
pain pills but you know the problem persists, it got worse.
I had a cartilage shaved off of my disc in order to keep it from
rubbing the sciatic nerve.
Even after all that it came back again.
Brad came into my office complaining of a lot of back
pain, weakness down his leg and shooting pain with numbness down
his leg.
And after looking at his MRIÄôs, his x-rays, he did have
pinching of his spinal cord.
He did have a lot of arthritis.
Pretty much the disc is like the cushion in your back and his
disc had collapsed over time and then a piece of disc had come
out and was hitting his nerves and thaÄôs what was causing
the leg pain.
One of the important things for Brad was that in his business he
travels all over the world and he really couldÄôt afford to
be laid up in the hospital for a week or take a year to recover
and he said thaÄôs what he was told at the other places.
So we do this minimally invasive TLIF procedure and whatÄôs
really awesome about this procedure is this type of
surgery, surgeons will usually make a big cut in the
patientÄôs belly, fuse them there and then they actually
flip them around and make a big incision in their back and a lot
of muscle dissection.
And whaÄôs nice about how wÄôre doing it now with this
minimally invasive TLIF really we do it with all these little
tubes and cameras and it will be a couple incisions about this
big and we go in between the muscles instead of cutting the
muscles or retracting the muscles.
So patients have really almost no blood loss.
Surgery instead of taking 6, 7, 8 hours takes about an hour and
a half.
Instead of being in the hospital for 5, 6, 7 days they go home
the same day.
We were able to perform the minimally invasive TLIF on Brad
and he was able to go home the same day.
After my procedure with Dr. Rimlawi, Äôm 100 percent
healed.
My back is completely you know fixed, you know, I have great
movement.
You know that was another thing I was majorly concerned about
was movement because people were saying well if you get your
spine fused then you woÄôt be able to move like you were
before which you know is not at all the case.
If yoÄôve had a doctor help change your life weÄôd love to
hear about it.
Send us an email at info@bestdocsnetwork.com.
Most people donÄôt realize but the largest organ in your body
is your skin.
Without your skin you actually canÄôt live and there are some
people unfortunately who do have serious problems where they lose
large areas of their skin and they actually have a very tough
time surviving.
How do you take care of your skin is a good question.
It sort of depends upon where you are in your life for
example.
Obviously if yoÄôre a little baby and you caÄôt take care
of your own skin, you need your parents to make sure that they
change your diaper frequently and use moisturizers and keep
you from getting an infection or an irritation.
As you get older in your teenage years you need to make sure that
you take care of your skin that may be too oily and whatnot, you
may be prone to acne so you need to wash your skin and use
appropriate acne medications and things like that if necessary.
As you get older you need to make sure that your skin
doesnÄôt get too dry so you donÄôt want to bathe too many
times with harsh soaps and waters and your skin can get dry
and then develop rashes.
And then all throughout your life you want to make sure that
you donÄôt get too much sun exposure that can lead to skin
cancer and melanoma.
As our skin gets older especially if wÄôve had a lot
of sun exposure our skin loses the elasticity of the skin, it
becomes instead of when youÄôre a little young person, if you
pull on somebodÄôs skin it kind of bounces right back and
goes back to normal, as you get older if you do that it takes a
little bit longer for it to go back and as time goes on you
start getting wrinkles and your skin loses a lot of that sort of
tensile strength that it once had.
A lot of that is normal aging but if you go out into the sun
iÄôs much more accelerated.
The scalp can be the site of a lot of conditions also and if
youÄôve never had any disease in your scalp you might not
think about it.
One of the most important ones is whatÄôs called alopecia.
If yoÄôre losing your hair especially if youÄôre a woman
that has got a lot of hair even if yoÄôre a male that yoÄôre
going bald I mean thaÄôs really distressing to a lot of
people.
In addition to that there are a lot of inflammatory diseases
that can affect the scalp, falliculitis, psoriasis,
seborrheic dermatitis.
And then therÄôs really sort of terrible diseases that can
sometimes get into the scalp.
ThereÄôs a thing called dissecting cellulitis which can
cause really large boggy areas of inflammation and pus can
drain out of the scalp.
IÄôs almost like severe acne but it just affects the scalp as
well.
So if you do have something up there, thatÄôs probably a good
idea to get checked out by a dermatologist and they can make
a diagnosis for you and then it can be treated appropriately.
Chest pain can be a scary thing.
There are bad causes of chest pain and not so bad causes.
So how do you know the difference?
Well, generally the bad causes of chest pain, for example a
heart attack, occur with a gradual onset.
For example the discomfort comes on gradually and then goes away
gradually.
IÄôs usually exertsional when you do things like run up a
flight of stairs.
IÄôs usually dull, not sharp, and that means not like a knife.
Knife like chest pain doesnÄôt tend to be heart related.
Also, if itÄôs heart related chest pain yoÄôll tend to get
other symptoms like shortness of breath, yoÄôll get a cold
sweat, you might even get nauseated or have the pain go to
your jaw or to your arm.
Now non heart related chest pain is a lot easier to figure out
and yet not nearly as scary.
For example iÄôs usually sharp, itÄôs usually sudden,
iÄôs usually aggravated my motion.
For example if you have chest pain thatÄôs worse when you
move or reach or bend or arch your back, thatÄôs generally
muscles or nerves and that generally lasts longer.
ThaÄôs the way you can figure out whether this is heart or not
heart.
That and whether iÄôs exertional.
If you go up a flight of stairs and your chest pain gets worse
and thaÄôs pretty predictable every time you go up a flight of
stairs, that may be your heart, check that out, especially if
you're older.
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Brushing your teeth can prevent a stroke.
People suffering from gum disease are twice as likely to
have a heart attack or stroke.
For more information about any of our outstanding doctors you
see on todaÄôs show, even request an appointment, the
place to go is bestdocsnetwork.com, that is
bestdocsnetwork.com.
Right now the place to go is our next best doctor, it is
prosthodontist Dr. David McFadden.
I had a bad problem of grinding my teeth and 30 years ago I had
some beautiful teeth and you know they slowly got worse and
worse and worse and then of course I started having cavity
problems.
My regular dentist told me look theÄôre not going to last your
lifetime so youÄôre faced with either dentures or you know
redoing your mouth.
Many patients find us because theÄôre at the end of the road
on their dental history.
They have neglected their teeth or they have had habits that
have caused their teeth to wear down to the point where they
know they have to do something and they present sometimes after
many decades of problems and theÄôre ready now to fix those
problems the best they can afford to.
A lot of the patients fall into the full mouth reconstruction
category which means they need every tooth in their mouth
addressed in their treatment.
When I finally went to Dr. McFadden, I was looking to him
for a permanent solution and something that would last the
rest of my life obviously.
And then he calmly brought me into his office and literally
wrote down on a piece of paper here are three different
proposals.
After weighing it I decided to take the highest cost option for
me which was to put crowns on every tooth.
When Bob came to the practice it was a really fun appointment.
He was instantly charming and fun to be around and we became
friends throughout his treatment.
When Bob arrived he had had four decades of tooth grinding and
ended up with almost no tooth structure left and his wife
hated his smile.
We were able to use all of his teeth and performed certain
procedures to allow him to keep his natural teeth and improve
the way they look through crown treatment.
One of the funniest things about Bob is that he carries his
before and after pictures on his iPhone.
He shows everybody.
He shows people that doÄôt care at all what his teeth
looked like and how great his teeth look now.
He cares, incredibly cares how good your teeth are.
A little bit obsessive compulsive he is but it works
out in your mouth to be beautiful.
DonÄôt skip breakfast.
Fiber in the morning means less hunger late in the afternoon
when you most likely feel tired and gorge yourself on sugar.
An early start on eating also keeps your metabolism more
active throughout the day.
Breakfast eaters are thinner than people who just rush out
the door.
IÄôm the office manager for Dr. Kathy Toler.
She is a neurologist and her focus is on seizures, multiple
sclerosis and work injuries.
The reason we choose to work with Preferred Imaging is
because they are more customer service based versus a hospital
or any large facility where the patient needs the facility
versus them being treated like a customer.
When you go to Preferred Imaging they are treated more like they
are a customer.
I basically do all the scheduling for neurosurgery for
any testing that they need to refer out.
I like using Preferred Imaging because they are really good on
scheduling the patients right away and also working with their
financial, any problems, any financial problems that the
patient might have.
It makes my job easier.
Preferred Imaging handles everything including
authorizations, verification of insurance so they essentially
take all the work.
We send the order, they contact the patient, they get the
authorization, they get the patient in, they call us, fax
us, let us know that it has been scheduled.
So basically it frees up the physicians staff to do other
things.
I actually just send over the paperwork to them.
A lot of times they can actually get the precertification for us
and they call the patient for us so we donÄôt have to be calling
back and forth.
They actually call me and let me know when the patient is
scheduled that way I can get the quick response or the
appointment back to the patient.
A big benefit with Preferred is that we are constantly getting
the update, wÄôre getting the fax update, the online update
and iÄôs usually, the turnaround is about 24 hours.
But they also offer a you know a stat call where the physician
will be called on their cell phone if there is some urgent
matter regarding an MRI or scan.
Preferred Imaging has 14 locations throughout the Dallas,
Fort Worth area and that makes it really convenient for us
since we have two locations.
Hi my name is Dr. Michael Rimlawi.
If yoÄôve been told you need traditional back or neck
surgery, you need to check out my latest videos on minimally
invasive spine surgery on bestdocsnetwork.com.
We have a very active skin care department.
IÄôs part of our aesthetic practice.
When patients come here we are very proud that we can offer
them either surgical rejuvenation or skin care.
I think skin care is your icing on the cake.
IÄôs going to help address whatever issues you have for
tone and texture and evening out skin color.
Some people are just looking for a more youthful look, they
donÄôt really need surgery so these different facial fillers
actually enhance their face and make them look a lot younger.
That in conjunction to working with Dr. Wilcox and his
specialty of surgery kind of lifting and Vicki helping clump
out and fill lines and smooth lines, the whole thing works
really well together.
Every patient is specific and every need is specific for that
patient so many of them will tell you, theÄôll tell you,
you know, what theyÄôre looking for and then you just kind of,
kind of go from there.
Consultation entails me examining the skin and then I
can tell you what I think would be the best protocol for what
you have going on whether iÄôs wrinkles or acne scarring or
active acne or sun damage, iÄôs usually a program of
products, lasers and chemical peels that will progress along
the way to get your skin nice and pretty and glowing.
Many of my patients range from the age of 25 to 70 and I am
seeing a lot more men these days.
They too want to look better and enhance their appearance.
TheÄôre competing a lot of times with a lot of guys that
are younger than them so they too want to look really
refreshed too.
These treatments stimulate collagen and slow down the aging
process.
They doÄôt correct, they actually improve your overall
appearance.
If we can offer either skincare or surgery then the patients are
comfortable knowing wÄôre going to offer them the best
treatment for their particular problem.
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome basically is a problem where you have a
nerve thaÄôs here in your wrist.
That nerve shares a common space.
It shares it with 9 tendons.
When those tendons swell, that soft little nerve gets pinched.
The patient can then begin to have numbness and tingling and
if itÄôs there long enough can notice that his grip strength or
her grip strength has diminished.
IÄôs important to treat carpal tunnel syndrome early and not
wait too long because the longer that nerve is pinched the
greater the chance that nerve can become permanently damaged
if left untreated.
IÄôve been dealing with hand numbness and pain in my hand and
fingers for probably 15, 20 years.
It progressively got worse and it got to the point where I
couldÄôt sleep any more, I couldÄôt write much more than
a check out without a pen falling out of my hand.
I would run my fingers through my wifeÄôs hair and not be able
to feel it on my fingers and you know I was missing out on a lot.
Keeping me up at night or waking me up at night it would hurt all
the way up in my armpits.
When Steve came to see me in the office and he told me his story
it definitely sounded like he had carpal tunnel syndrome.
After examining him and after getting a nerve study to confirm
what we suspected, it came back positive for carpal tunnel
syndrome in both of his hands.
So we proceeded to do the surgery to treat his carpal
tunnel syndrome.
The procedure we went with was the endoscopic.
I can sleep at night now, I can feel my wifÄôs hair whenever I
run my fingers through her hair.
IÄôm doing just about everything I used to do before.
The good thing about endoscopic surgery is instead of waiting
this long recovery after one surgery for one hand, we
operated on Steve within a week and a half after his first
surgery.
So he basically had both of his hands done in one month.
I wish I hadnÄôt put it off for so long you know I doÄôt know
how many things I put off because I couldÄôt use my
hands like I wanted to before.
I can actually feel my hands and do things.
It doesÄôt hurt to pick up a pair of pliers or pick up a
wrench.
IÄôm glad that I found Dr. Ray and everythinÄôs been great
since.
Well, that will wrap up another edition of the Best Docs Network
featuring some of the best doctors in all of the Dallas and
Fort Worth area, Jim, that are helping to change peoplÄôs
lives.
And donÄôt forget for more information about any of these
outstanding doctors, even request an appointment, head to
the website, bestdocsnetwork.com, thatÄôs
bestdocsnetwork.com.
And as always if you have a question or a comment for us or
if therÄôs a doctor thatÄôs helped change your life, weÄôd
sure love to hear from you, send us an email at
info@bestdocsnetwork.com.
So long everyone, we will see you next week.