Interview with John Kang MD

3. What is the most common cosmetic surgery performed in your practice?

Most common is eye surgery, followed by rhinoplasty and then, fat transfer to re-volumize and contour the face back to youthful days. However after being in practice for over 25 years, there isn’t a surgical procedure that I offer in my practice that I am not an expert in, including various styles of face and neck lifting as well as laser assisted liposuction and body contouring.

6. What is the worst stigma associated with Plastic Surgery.

I think the only negative stigma which exists in the world of plastic surgery is reserved for the minority of patients (and the willing surgeons) who go overboard in the number of procedures they undertake and extreme degree of changes they desire…. A few example are the likes of “Cat”woman, Michael Jackson, and Joan Rivers. We need to embrace and celebrate the unique individual in all of us, including our looks. However, if a minor tweaking can result in a better version of our individual self, thats where my expertise come in. But the moment I partake in radically changing one’s identity for reasons unclear or creating an assembly of same looking faces as is being evidenced in certain parts of Asia, I am no longer serving the good of the humanity. As we get older, we need to embrace the wisdom as well as the inevitable physical changes through out our entire body including our physical look. It is unfathomable how some of the smartest celebrity figures equate bad plastic surgery with holding back the ages….It’s really not the frequency of procedures, but the awkward and ungraceful transformation which certain patients positively associate with holding back the aging process that leaves me dumbfounded. I believe both the patients and the willing surgeons are to be blamed when it comes to stigma associated with surgery mired in dysmophic changes.