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A Bad Output That Reads Well: What I Told MDLinx About AI Risk in Medicine, and the Rest of the Answer

A Bad Output That Reads Well: What I Told MDLinx About AI Risk in Medicine, and the Rest of the Answer

October 25, 2026 | Patient Safety, Plastic Surgery Consultation, Plastic Surgery News

When MDLinx asked physicians how worried they are about AI in medicine, I said moderately, and I said why: the failure I expect is a confident wrong answer delivered in fluent medical English to someone who cannot check it. The article ran one paragraph of that. Here is the rest: the patient who arrives alarmed by a diagnosis nobody made, the one told a procedure is simpler than it is, the three safeguards I would actually enforce, and why software needs the same post-market watch an implant gets.

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Texas Today cover, October 23, 2026: Dr. Frank Agullo in a navy jacket standing in the Southwest Plastic Surgery lobby in front of the Dr. WorldWide and Stay Beautiful neon sign, with the cover line What Matters in Choosing a Texas Plastic Surgeon and a Look at Dr. Frank Agullo's Credentials. Photo by Jorge Campos.

Which Board Certified You, and in What? Texas Today on Choosing a Texas Plastic Surgeon

October 23, 2026 | Patient Safety, Plastic Surgery Consultation, Plastic Surgery News

Texas Today put me on its cover this week with a piece on what matters when you choose a plastic surgeon in Texas. The short version is in the article. The long version, the one I give patients across the desk, is here: the four questions, the five-minute verification, why about 70 percent of my patients fly in, and why I turn people away every week.

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What a Facelift Changes and What It Does Not: Reading the Kristen Wiig Photos

What a Facelift Changes and What It Does Not: Reading the Kristen Wiig Photos

October 20, 2026 | Facelift, Facial Rejuvenation, Plastic Surgery News

When a side by side goes viral, the comments say facelift. A plastic surgeon checks five landmarks first: brow position, upper eyelid skin, cheek volume, jawline and the neck bands. Dr. Frank Agullo walks the Kristen Wiig photographs through that checklist, as opinion, not diagnosis, and explains what a facelift would have moved.

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Glutemaxxing, Read by a Surgeon Who Does It: Why Men Ask for Projection, Not a BBL

Glutemaxxing, Read by a Surgeon Who Does It: Why Men Ask for Projection, Not a BBL

October 17, 2026 | Buttock Augmentation, Male Procedures, Plastic Surgery News

Allure asked five plastic surgeons whether glutemaxxing has reached the operating room. I was not one of them, but I am one of the first twenty surgeons who used alloClae, and I inject it into the buttock two to four times a week. Here is what the men in my office actually ask for, why most of them do not want a BBL, and who should stay in the gym.

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Rested, Not Different: Why Two Thirds of Facial Plastic Surgeons Now Hear the Same Request

Rested, Not Different: Why Two Thirds of Facial Plastic Surgeons Now Hear the Same Request

October 15, 2026 | Blepharoplasty, Facial Procedures, Plastic Surgery News

The AAFPRS annual survey says 66 percent of facial plastic surgeons see more patients asking for eyelid surgery to look less tired, and that the request is for a rested face, not a different one. I hear it every week. Here is how I decide what stays, what moves, and what comes out.

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ISAPS 2025: Fillers Fell a Quarter Worldwide. Fat Grafting Held. A Year Later, the Tax Came Due

ISAPS 2025: Fillers Fell a Quarter Worldwide. Fat Grafting Held. A Year Later, the Tax Came Due

October 14, 2026 | Facial Procedures, Fat Transfer, Plastic Surgery News

A year ago I called fillers a tax. The ISAPS 2025 global survey now shows hyaluronic acid filler down 25.2 percent in a single year, every other injectable filler down with it, and fat grafting to the face holding at nearly a million procedures, up 60 percent since 2021. Here is why patients are switching, and what fat can and cannot do.

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