VAGINAL COSMETIC SURGERY

The following 4 paragraphs should answer most of your questions and concerns regarding Vaginal Cosmetic Surgery. Please feel free to call me personally for any additional information.

We are a $ 200 plane flight from anywhere in the continental U.S. Our surgery center is 25 minutes from Ft. Lauderdale International Airport & 40 minutes from Miami International Airport. I do 4 -5 cases a day on women from all over the world. Because so many of my patients are from out of state, my office is very skilled at assisting you with travel and surgery plans.

When picking a cosmetic surgeon you need to look at least 3 things. It is not like buying a used car or a couch. You don't want the cheapest, easiest, or the closest. It's your body and you get only one chance at getting this surgery done right. Look at the facilities (we are a AAAASF certified ambulatory outpatient surgical facility with two operating rooms, two complete surgical teams, pre op and recovery.)  Look at the Doctors’ credentials. (You can even go on line to myflorida.com and look me up), and most of all look at a lot of examples of his or her work.
Most women fly in the day before surgery by 4 pm. I do a complete history and physical, draw labs, review consents and forms, and shoot digital photos. You and I immediately blow up the photos on a large screen monitor and you and I custom design exactly what you want. You stay overnight a one of several motels we have arrangements with. The next morning is surgery. I see you the next morning before you fly out. For either procedure alone, usually 3 - 4 days and you can return to work. If you have both performed at the same sitting, usually you'd like 6 - 7 days off work. A 6 week post op visit is encouraged, however, since 90 % of my patients are from out of state, a digital photo and follow up phone call is the norm. No tampex, g strings, or sex for around 6 weeks. As with any surgery, complete healing is 3 months.
Call Beatrice or Marsha in the office 305.933.0410 or me directly at 954.483.7929.

HYMENOPLASTY TECHNIQUE

Technique: I only perform this surgery at the request of someone who needs the surgery for ethnic, cultural, or religious reasons. Also, I will not perform the surgery in a woman who has given birth. The hymen is a ring-like skin membrane that sits in the lower 1/3 of the vagina. It marks the spot that the vulvovaginal bulbs fuse with the Mullerian ducts from above, then hollow out to form the vagina. Most often there is a 5 or 6 pointed star opening in the hymen after maturity. With first intercourse, or by accident from falling, or tampons, 2 or 3 areas tear in the hymen. There is most often bleeding at the time of tearing. The procedure to reconstruct the hymen, is after using local anesthesic for tissue dissection and to stop small blood vessels from bleeding, the areas which were torn are "denuded" meaning the upper layer of tissue is removed. This is so that they will grow back together when they are approximated with stitches. Then after they are denuded, the edges are brought back together to reform the star-shaped "ring" as it was prior to relations, accident etc. It is made small enough, so that when first sexual relations occur later on, it will "tear" again, there will be some pain, and there will be bleeding.

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COMBINATION LABIAPLASTY & VAGINOPLASTY

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MEDIA

The following Newspapers, Television, Radio, & Magazines have featured Dr. Stern.

New York Daily News:  CITY LIFE HEALTH “Over the Top,” Tuesday, June 28, 2005:
http://www.nydailynews.com/city_life/health/story/323464p-276497c.html

Ftl Lauderdale Sun Sentinel:  HEALTH & FAMILY “The Beauty Frontier”, Sunday,
May 29, 2005

New York Times:  SUNDAY STYLES, “The Most Private of Makeovers”, Sunday, November
28, 2004: http://nytimes.com/2004/11/28/fashion/28plas.html?ex=1259298000&en=c4e520b4cb501a51&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland

Chicago Tribune:  WN WOMAN NEWS, “Surgery’s Next Frontier:  Genital Makeovers”,
Wednesday, December 15, 2004.

R REAL:   2-16 SEPTEMBER 2005, “Designer Vaginas”,  Essential Publishing Ltd,
Colchester, Essex CO49HU (UK)

New York Times:  SUNDAY MAGAZINE, “Behind Closed Doors”
December 17, 2006, Sunday By TARYN SIMON (NYT); Magazine
Late Edition - Final, Section 6, Page 64, Column 1, 229 words.
Hustler:  “The Vagina Dialogues”, pgs. 60 – 62, January 2007.

Clear Channel 700 WLW, Scott Sloan Show “Live” June 15, 2006 (XM channel 173.
“Female Genital Aesthetic Surgery”

Michael Baisden Show, Nationally Syndicated, 50 station listening audience “Live”,
in June and November 2006 “primetime”, Labiaplasty & Vaginoplasty.

Dr Stern was featured in the prime time documentary “Drastic Plastics,” which aired
to critical acclaim on Yorkshire Television in England (UK) January 2004.

Dr Stern was featured prime time on ABC Action News,  “Like a Virgin” Nov.6, 2006


Dr Stern is featured in a soon to be released book.  In March 2007, Taryn Simon’s
most recent series of photographs, An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar
will be on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art, traveling to the Museum für
Modern Kunst, Frankfurt.

CREDITENTIALS AND TRAINING

Certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology as an expert in female genital surgery
Member of the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery
Fellow of American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Former Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Miami School of Medicine
Member of Florida State & Dade County Medical Associations
Previous Active Teaching Staff, Southeastern University College of Osteopathy
Certified in Advanced Cardiac Life Support by the American Heart Association
Previous Chief of Gynecology, South Shore Medical Center, Miami Beach, Florida
Board of Directors & Prior Chief of Obstetrics/Gynecology, Av-Med Health Plan
Director of Quality Assurance, Utilization Review, OPS, N. Miami General Hospital

Dr. Stern has over 25 years of private practice experience & is one of the select few with advanced
training and expertise in the fine art of cosmetic surgery of the female genitalia and now limits his practice
exclusively to these procedures

"Every patient I see, I evaluate individually prior to any surgery. If I believe, someone doesn't need surgery,
someone is a poor candidate for surgery, or a patient has unrealistic expectations, I do not perform
VAGINAL COSMETIC SURGERY on that individual." Bernard H. Stern, M.D.