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How to Read Before-and-After Photos Before Your Consult: The Feed Test, the Wish Photo, and the Six-Month Settle

How to Read Before-and-After Photos Before Your Consult: The Feed Test, the Wish Photo, and the Six-Month Settle

October 04, 2026 | Plastic Surgery Consultation, Recovery

Before-and-after photos are the best homework a patient can do, and the easiest to misread. Dr. Agullo on the feed test (daily consistency over three home runs), why a wish photo has to match your BMI and your age, the four things no photo can show, and the six-month settle that never makes the feed.

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Plastic Surgery in Texas: The Five-Minute Surgeon Check, and Why 70 Percent of My Patients Travel to El Paso

Plastic Surgery in Texas: The Five-Minute Surgeon Check, and Why 70 Percent of My Patients Travel to El Paso

September 27, 2026 | Plastic Surgery Consultation, Plastic Surgery News

Plastic surgery in Texas is a big search and a bigger decision. Dr. Frank Agullo on the five-minute license and board check every patient should run, why about 70 percent of his patients travel to El Paso (and from where), how the practice handles fly-in recovery, and the honest version of the Mexico versus Texas cost conversation.

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Using AI Before Your Doctor Visit: Where It Helps and Where It Fails

Using AI Before Your Doctor Visit: Where It Helps and Where It Fails

September 14, 2026 | New Technologies, Plastic Surgery Consultation

A reader asked whether AI can replace part of a doctor visit. Dr. Agullo’s answer: it is a real tool for preparing and reviewing, and it cannot touch you.

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Why I Ask Every Patient About Peptides Before Surgery

Why I Ask Every Patient About Peptides Before Surgery

August 30, 2026 | Anti-Aging, Plastic Surgery Consultation

Dr. Agullo now asks every surgical patient about peptide injections, the same way he asks about supplements. Here is what prompted that question.

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Considering Surgery Abroad? Read This First

Considering Surgery Abroad? Read This First

August 20, 2026 | Plastic Surgery Consultation, Plastic Surgery News

My practice sits forty minutes from Ciudad Juarez, so patients ask me about surgery abroad constantly. Yahoo Finance asked me the same question for a national piece. Here’s the honest answer.

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The Patients Who Come In to Plan, Not to Book: Aesthetic Planning in the GLP-1 Era

The Patients Who Come In to Plan, Not to Book: Aesthetic Planning in the GLP-1 Era

June 28, 2026 | Plastic Surgery Consultation, Semaglutide

A growing number of patients come in not to book but to learn, plan, and save for surgery. A plastic surgeon on the shift, the two buckets of aesthetic cost, and the GLP-1 effect.

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