The La Jolla Cosmetic Surgery Podcast - With San Diego’s Most Loved Plastic Surgeons
Go beyond the surface with insights from the plastic surgery experts at La Jolla Cosmetic Surgery Centre. Dive deep into the latest advancements, patient stories, and the artistry behind cosmetic surgery from a globally recognized practice, the 12x winner of the San Diego’s Best Union-Tribune Readers Poll, and the 2025 winner of Best Cosmetic Surgery Group in San Diego Magazine’s Best of San Diego Awards.
Recent Episodes
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June 23, 2026
How to Find Out What Your Surgery Costs Before You Ever Come In
For a lot of women, the most intimidating part of a cosmetic procedure isn't the operating room. It's the money, and the quiet worry that asking about it makes you look like you can't afford it. LJCSC built its whole intake p...
246
June 16, 2026
Why Working Out Can Make “Man Boobs” Worse
There's a reason a lean, sculpted chest can still carry a stubborn bit of fullness right behind the nipple — and it's the one spot a thousand reps will never flatten. Dr. Hector Salazar-Reyes explains why glandular breast tis...
245
June 9, 2026
What You’ll Actually Look Like After Explant: The Two-Year Timeline
A woman walks into the office holding her phone, points at a stranger’s before-and-after, and says she doesn’t want that result. Dr. Luke Swistun’s answer is almost always the same: that isn’t you. The photo shows someone wit...
244
June 2, 2026
Why Day Three Feels Like a Mistake (But Usually Isn't)
Around 48 to 72 hours after surgery, swelling peaks, the anesthesia haze lifts, and a lot of women look in the mirror and feel like they've made a mistake. Dr. Diana Breister has been in plastic surgery long enough to know th...
243
May 28, 2026
Meet Dr. Hector Salazar-Reyes
At ten or eleven years old, Dr. Hector Salazar watched his grandmother step off a plane looking dramatically younger than she had a month earlier. She had quietly traveled out of town for cosmetic surgery, healed through the ...
242
May 19, 2026
Life WAY After Mommy Makeover: Dr. Breister on Recovery Years Later
Dr. Diana Breister, a board-certified plastic surgeon who has done mommy makeovers in San Diego for over twenty years, joins us to talk about everything that happens after the six-week post-op visit. You can do planks, but no...
241
May 13, 2026
5 Years, 5 Surgeons, 5 Moments: The Best of the La Jolla Cosmetic Podcast
Six months after her breast implants came out, a young woman handed Dr. Luke Swistun a full, untouched bottle of Xanax — the same prescription she had been burning through at three to four pills a day before the explant. Stor...
240
May 5, 2026
What “En Bloc” Really Means: Dr. Swistun on the Four Types of Capsulectomy
When breast implant illness support groups started telling each other to ask their plastic surgeon for an “en bloc capsulectomy,” they were borrowing a term from cancer surgery — and asking for something most surgeons knew wa...
239
April 28, 2026
A Lesson in Trusting Your Surgeon: Ella’s Breast Augmentation
Most patients walk into a breast augmentation consultation hoping to leave with answers. Ella walked in with research, reference photos, and a clear vision — and then made the deliberate decision to trust her plastic surgeon’...
238
April 21, 2026
Chin, Nose, Tear Troughs: When Filler Hits Its Limit
Filler is an easy first step — quick, pretty much reversible, affordable. But there’s a moment patients know well: you’ve been filling the same area for years, and something still isn’t quite right. Dr. Kiersten Riedler, faci...
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