It is a common request that patients seek to review before and after photographs from many different plastic surgery procedures. Photographs not only provide an awareness of what results can be achieved but also provide evidence that their prospective plastic surgeon has experience in the procedure that they are interested in. I think one of the best reasons that a patient should look at before and after pictures is that it provides a visual stimulus that often leads to good questions, particularly about the realistic benefits of what palstic surgery can…and cannot do.
In my plastic surgery practice, I have set up many different easily-accessible sites for my patients to review procedure results. All of these are on the internet at various websites. They are as follows:
EPPLEY PLASTIC SURGERY My practice website has results from 24 of the most commonly performed plastic surgery procedures. Within each category are dozens of examples.
LOCATE A DOC This is the #1 physician referral photo website in the United States. Search my name and city and you will have access to an extensive office tour as well as over one hundred before and after photographs from various face and body procedures.
LOVE YOUR LOOK This is the patient website for the Johnson & Johnson/Mentor Corporation, the largest breast implant manufacturer in the United States. By searching under my name and city, you will find over one hundred before and after photographs of breast augmentation, breast augmentation revisions, breast lifts, liposuction and rhinoplasty results. This is a great resource for all potential breast surgery patients.
Between these three websites, you will close to a thousand before and after plastic surgery results performed by me. It is the generosity of these patients that makes it possible to create such a photo archive for new patients.
Dr. Barry Eppley
Indianapolis, Indiana