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| Dr. Joel Aronowitz |
Welcome back to ARONOWITZLAND with Dr. Joel Aronowitz,
Plastic & Reconstructive surgeon in Los Angeles. Dr. Aronowitz has been one
of the most reputable plastic and reconstructive surgeons of Beverly Hills,
California for the past 30 years. He is also the medical director of the Tower
Wound Care Centers in Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, Culver City, Encino,
Pasadena and Lynwood.
Suzanne Somers: “It's so awesome, you know, the only thing I
was offered when I was originally had the surgery was implants and I said what
you mean you're going to take my good one too and they said well you got to
have two for symmetry or something called a tram flap which is where they cut
you from hip to hip and take the muscle and a blood vessel and move it up and
kind of make a breast that has no feeling so I said sew me up something better
will come and I had heard about Dr. Kotaro Yoshimura in Japan who had successfully
regrown the breasts of over 400 Japanese women who had lost their breast cancer
so I tracked him down I brought him over here I hooked him up with a surgeon in
the Los Angeles area we applied for an IRB it took three years and it finally
came through in August and I said let's go before anybody changes their mind
They took the fat from my stomach, boo hoo, and this is in lay speak in a
sophisticated technology like a centrifuge whipped it around at supersonic
speed and extracted my stem cells separated them cleaned them discarded the
weak ones took the strong stem cells in a small amount of that fat made it rich
with my stem cells and then again for a lack of a better term took a turkey
baster and injected into this breast and poof Wow and so what I have felt over
the last few months is like electrical zippers in my breast and that's sort of
like what it is is the blood vessels and the nerves growing and to me the
ramifications of what this can mean for the future uses of stem cells.”
Piers Morgan: “I think of our enlisted people and we're not
that far away from being able to regrow limbs and I hope this just opens the
door a little bit I was just thinking that very same thing that if you're an
amputee who's returned from Iraq or Afghanistan for example and you're thinking
about the rest of your life and you're watching this interview you're thinking
can this apply to my leg to my arm I mean the implications of what you've been
through and the apparent success of it are really extraordinary.”
Suzanne Somers: “It is I don't really mean to be flipping about it whenever I get undressed I catch a glimpse of myself and it's frankly thrilling to be whole again and to have no foreign object in me.”
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