Feeling brand new is easy at Dalton Plastic Surgery
Dr. Reginald R. Sherrill, the medical director of Dalton Plastic Surgery, finds joy in helping people of all ages be the best them they can be through plastic surgery.
He has been in practice for 35 years, soon after graduating from Loma Linda University School Medical Center.
Back then, plastic surgery was a relatively new thing for small town Georgia.
“The way I ended up in plastic surgery is, my mother had rheumatoid arthritis and I saw a presentation on joint replacement for rheumatoid arthritis,” said Dr. Sherrill. “I thought, ‘ I’m going to be and doctor.’ So my plan was to go to medical school and become a hand surgeon. When we had our lectures on hand procedures, some were given by plastic surgeons and I was kind of shocked because I didn’t think plastic surgeons would do that, so I spent some time with the orthopedic surgeons, and also the plastic surgeons. I decided I loved plastic surgery a lot more.”
Dr. Sherrill is a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon and is a member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, the Georgia Society of Plastic Surgeons, the Southern Medical Association, the Medical Association of Georgia and the Whitfield- Murray County Medical Society.
His practice performs many different procedures, but one in particular is the most requested. “We do more breast surgery than anything else,” said Dr. Sherrill. “That is breast enlargement, breast uplifts, breast reductions and breast reconstructions. That’s just what we are known for.
“Baby’s give us a lot of business because they mess up the female body,” said Dr. Sherrill. “Forty- percent of the women who come in after they’ve had children need an uplift, an implant to fill out what they used to have. A lot of the women who come to see us tell me, ‘I just want to get back to where I was’.”
While breast procedures are the most requested, there are other popular procedures performed at Dalton Plastic Surgery. “We do face lifts, eye tucks, nose jobs, abdominoplasties and those sort of things,” said Dr. Sherrill. “We also do a lot of skin cancers, and the reconstruction after having skin cancers removed, to try to minimize scars.
“A lot of people have wobbly upper arms, and we do what we call arm tucks; some people will have their thighs lifted, too,” continued Dr. Sherrill. “We have a large population of overweight people who will lose their weight or have a lap band procedure done, and have a lot of loose skin. The only way to take it off is to simply trim it out.”
Dr. Sherrill loves the small town feel of serving Northwest Georgia. “One of the reasons I like being in a small town is that you do get to do a little bit of every procedure,” said Dr. Sherrill. “If you go to a big city, you have doctors that specialize in doing just one type of procedure. I like to do a little bit of everything; I feel like I get bored just doing one thing all the time.”
Since Dr. Sherrill first began practice 35 years ago, plastic surgery has come a long way. “Liposuction is something that’s very new,” said Dr. Sherrill. “When I first started, it was just coming about and it was very crude 35 years ago. It’s been refined- fat grafting, stem cell transfers- these kind of procedures weren’t even available when I began.
“We also have a lot of non- surgical treatments now, where you are using heated energy to create collagen rejuvenation,” continued Dr. Sherrill. “There’s a number of those procedures that use heat to generate some contractions. Lasers have come a long way in the last 30 to 40 years and are getting a lot more sophisticated with what they do- we do a lot of hair removal now, which wasn’t something available when I started except through electrolysis, which was highly unpredictable.”
One procedures Dr. Sherrill has picked up in his office involves underarm odor and hair. “One of the most exciting things I’ve seen in the last few years is the treatment for underarm odor, sweat and hair called miraDry,” said Dr. Sherrill. “We have one of those machines and a single treatment will reduce dramatically the amount of sweat produced, cut down the hair under the arm and also the smell. A lot of women and men that we perform this on do not require deodorant anymore. It’s really exciting what they’ve come up with.”
New procedures are constantly introduced, and Dr. Sherrill works hard to provide the cutting edge technology of new plastic surgery procedures to his patients. “A lot of times, within a day or two of specific training on a specific machine, we are up and running because we’ve been doing something very similar in the past,” said Dr. Sherrill.
Dr. Sherrill said that there are many great things for plastic surgery on the horizon. “A lot of the excitement in plastic surgery in the future involves taking stem cells from fat in one part of the body, isolating the stem cells, which are the cells that can become bone, cartilage and other things,” said Dr. Sherrill. “We are just now scraping the surface on what can be done with stem cells. And we’ve done a lot with fillers and Botox- these are the paralytic agents that will help eliminate wrinkles in places such