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November 10, 2026 | Body, Recovery
A patient with an ugly scar over a joint, a pale patient who expects the worst, a patient with stretched areolas, a patient on Accutane. Dr. Agullo’s real answers on where the scar goes, how he treats it, and what happens when one heals badly.
October 31, 2026 | Patient Safety, Plastic Surgery Recovery, Recovery
Most of my patients go home, or back to the hotel, the same day. What happens over the next two weeks decides the result as much as the operation did. Here is the first week as I plan it: the nurse visit for the first shower and the drains, who needs to stay with you and for how long, the warning signs that earn a same-day call to the hotline on your wristband, and the three things I would insist on if I could only insist on three.
October 28, 2026 | Patient Resources, Post-Surgical Care, Recovery
Woman’s World asked doctors whether ice or heat works better and had me review the piece. The magazine answer is about sore muscles and stiff joints. Mine is about the first week after surgery: ice vasoconstricts, so it goes on first, every hour, for three days; heat vasodilates and brings blood, oxygen, growth factors and repair cells, so it goes on after. And one rule that keeps people out of trouble on numb skin.
October 23, 2026 | Liposuction, Plastic Surgery Recovery, Recovery
For years I used compression garments alone. Then I started sending every liposuction and tummy tuck patient for lymphatic drainage massage and the difference was obvious: less swelling, less fibrosis, smoother results, patients up and moving sooner. When to start, how many, what it prevents, and the honest word on cost.
October 16, 2026 | Patient Safety, Plastic Surgery Recovery, Recovery
Most surgeons will not see another surgeon’s patient. I do. If you had your procedure in Florida, Mexico or anywhere else and you are back in El Paso with a drain, a splint, a swelling that keeps growing or a question nobody is answering, here is what my office can do, what it needs from you, when it is an ER problem instead, and how it is billed.
October 16, 2026 | Plastic Surgery Recovery, Recovery, Weight Loss
Recovering from surgery puts you in the small group of people who need more protein than a normal diet delivers. Here is the number I give my patients, why food should get you most of the way there, and the one case where a powder is the right call.
