Azul Beauty Podcast #317 (Dr. FLaharty & Dr Saurez Intro, Laser, Eyes, Deep Plane)

Welcome back to Look and Feel Your Best.

I'm Gina Birch with Dr. Patrick Flaharty, Medical Director of the Azul Cosmetic Surgery and Medical Spa's six offices in Southwest Florida, from Naples up to Sarasota.

And we just finally met Dr. Suarez, your newest hire.

Yes, yes.

Yes, exactly.

I mean, we've been waiting, you know, for her to arrive.

It's, you know, early September and that was her start date.

But we kind of knew she was joining us for several months.

So it felt like a long summer of waiting for her to land here.

But it's good to finally have her here.

Yeah.

And I love that every person that you bring in, that you've been bringing in, has a different specialty.

So she still does full face and neck lifts, but she has a specialty on the rhinoplasty on the nose, which is new for you.

Yeah, she's very fortunate that she had this unique training where she trained with, you know, had the opportunity to train with three separate surgeons who are really well known for rhinoplasty surgery.

And that's You're lucky if you can train with one really skilled person in your career, but to have three is exceptional.

So she's had really, really high-level training.

And as I mentioned earlier, in addition to the otolaryngology residency training she had up in Albany, New York, for five years, she did a separate fellowship after that in Florida.

facial plastic surgery fellowship, accredited fellowship, and that's where she got additional training on facial cosmetic surgery, really.

Not that, you know, she did plenty of that, I'm sure, as a resident as well, but in her fellowship, the focus was on facial aesthetics with a strong focus on rhinoplasty because her main preceptor and one of the other surgeons she worked with were both rhinoplasty specialists.

So she's really had super high level training and very thorough training on rhinoplasty, which makes her really uniquely qualified.

And as I mentioned, she does, you know, as a new practitioner in the community, you know, she will be taking insurance for functional rhinoplasty, you know, septoplasties.

You know, people have injuries, broken noses, have trouble breathing, need to get the... you know, the airways fixed.

And that can go hand in hand with, you know, cosmetic fixing of the nose as well.

And, you know, reconstructive work to the cosmetic aspects of, you know, cancer reconstruction is very prevalent in the area.

And she's really well skilled in that area too, in addition to doing the, you know, the same kind of cosmetic procedures that we offer in terms of you know, endoscopic brow lifts, eyelids, face and neck lifts, laser resurfacing, fat augmentations, et cetera.