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Frank Agullo, MD, FACS — known globally as Dr. WorldWide — is a double board-certified plastic surgeon in El Paso, Texas. He is a Clinical Associate Professor of Plastic Surgery at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and Affiliate Professor at the University of Texas at El Paso. Specializing in preservation-based aesthetic surgery and the Deep Plane Facelift, he has been named a Castle Connolly Top Doctor for thirteen consecutive years and has a global social following of over 3.5 million across Instagram, TikTok, and Snapchat. He is the founder of Southwest Plastic Surgery and Plastic Surgery Studios.
Meet Dr.WWDR. WORLDWIDE GET TO KNOW HIM
Frank Agullo, MD, FACS is the plastic surgeon the world watches. Known globally as Dr. WorldWide, he has built one of the largest followings of any surgeon on the planet (over 3.5 million on Instagram @RealDrWorldWide) by pulling back the curtain on plastic surgery and showing what extraordinary results actually look like. Celebrities, influencers, and patients from across the United States and around the world make the trip to El Paso, Texas, because when you have seen the work up close, there is nowhere else to go. More than 80% of his patients travel from outside El Paso. The practice handles every detail of their journey.
Dr. Agullo is double board-certified, Mayo Clinic fellowship-trained, and a Clinical Associate Professor of Plastic Surgery at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. But credentials only tell part of the story. What sets him apart is a philosophy built on preservation: enhancing, restoring, and elevating what is already there rather than changing who you are. Not cookie cutter. Every plan is molded around the individual patient's desires, their anatomy, their life.
That philosophy drives every decision in the operating room. His Motiva Preserve breast augmentations deliver results that feel as natural as they look. His deep plane and endoscopic deep plane facelifts turn back time without announcing themselves. His Supercharged BBL has been refined, published, and presented on international stages. And his ability to combine face and body procedures in a single operative session is a capability few surgeons in the world can offer safely at his level.
The same philosophy applies outside the OR. Forget synthetic fillers. Dr. Agullo restores volume with regenerative grafts including Alloclae, Lipoderma, exosomes, and platelet-derived growth factors. Recovery is treated as part of the result: lymphatic massages, scar management, and Elixir MD LED light therapy ensure that what happens after surgery is as intentional as what happens during it.
Castle Connolly Top Doctor for eleven consecutive years. Texas Super Doctors Hall of Fame. Best Plastic Surgeon in El Paso for thirteen consecutive years. Aesthetic Everything Top Plastic Surgeon 2026. Founding Vice President and President of the World Association of Gluteal Surgeons, where he helped write the global safety standards for gluteal surgery.
The results are daily. The standard is uncompromising. The philosophy is simple: #MakeItHappen. #HappyIsBeautiful. #StayBeautiful.
#PlasticSurgeryIsMyPassion
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Plastic Surgery is a very personal choice and a unique experience for every individual who chooses to undergo a change, be it a discreet or major surgery. The one thing in common for my patients though is that they experience an inner transformation which ultimately shines through as confidence in themselves. Confident is Beautiful!
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- Posted on: July 7th 2026
- Category: Aesthetic Analysis, Commentary
A surgeon’s candid read on how looksmaxxing changed the male consult, from canthal tilt and gonial angle to the requests that now cluster together.
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- Posted on: July 7th 2026
- Category: Aesthetic Analysis, Commentary
This past April, a twenty-year-old viral streamer named Clavicular collapsed at a Miami mall, sparking discussions across the entire industry for weeks. He represents the public face of the looksmaxxing movement, an online community dedicated to maximizing male attractiveness through any means necessary. His fall from grace suddenly shone a harsh light on the trend my practice has watched approaching.
MedEsthetics contacted me to feature a piece written by Joshua Eferighe about the phenomenon, and my truthful version will now serve as an expansion here.
The statement I keep returning to is this. The patient has changed.
Five Years Ago Versus Now
Five years ago, men visited my clinic with the desire to look less tired. Their only request was simple. Remove the fatigue from their eyes, soften the two frown lines etched between their brows, and prevent them from looking exhausted in photos.
Today they present themselves to my clinic with specific requests about their canthal tilt, their gonial angle, and the eye shape they refer to as the “hunter eye.” They have internalized the lingo, have their ideal reference photos saved on their phones, are typically in their early twenties, and have spent hours on looksmaxxing forums before ever making contact with my staff.
This marks a dramatic shift from the initial consultation framework that guided plastic surgery from its inception.
What the Requests Look Like
One intriguing aspect is that looksmaxxing requests tend to occur in clusters rather than in isolation. When a young man enters my office with such a clearly defined concept in his mind, his list of desired modifications rarely deviates from that of other patients.
Chin augmentation and jaw implants are common, often coupled with genioplasty to bring the chin forward or downward, buccal fat removal to slim the cheeks, a narrowed rhinoplasty, and a lateral canthoplasty to achieve the aforementioned “hunter eye.” Hair restoration is often part of the package too.
The language used is precise and the references are entirely photo-based. These patients are not reticent about their desires. They can articulate every angle, a level of specificity that is genuinely new to my experience.
Where I Think It Comes From
Aesthetic medicine did not originate the idea of looksmaxxing. I do acknowledge, though, that we played a role in laying the groundwork. We established injectables as a norm in the 1990s, endured the subsequent explosion of filler popularity, and ultimately witnessed how filters and social media turned the results of these procedures into an objective checklist.
Online communities embraced these clinical guidelines, stripped out the medical context, and reframed them as optimization objectives. A canthal tilt is an anatomical feature with specific medical implications. It transforms into something entirely different when it is reinterpreted as a metric to be assessed and compared against other men in a comment section.
The Part That Matters: Reading Motivation
This is where my profession fundamentally changed, and it is not the surgical aspect that was transformed.
I now devote more time to understanding a patient’s motivation than to the requested modification itself. There is a significant distinction between a man seeking to subtly blend his nose into the rest of his face and a man who aspires to become the transformed individual he encountered in a viral before-and-after post. The former is a good candidate. The latter is not, at least not at present.
When the desired outcome continues to evolve because it is tethered to an online ideal, the responsible approach is to slow down the planning process. I prioritize the reversible and less invasive steps first, and I am willing to refuse certain requests. Not every desire warrants a scalpel, and the most beneficial outcome is occasionally a recalibration of expectations rather than an irreversible procedure.
This is not about being overly precious. Body image distress is a real and significant issue, and screening for it is an integral part of responsible patient care today, a concept that was far less prominent a decade ago.
The Credential Behind the Opinion
I hold double board certification from the American Board of Plastic Surgery and the American Board of Surgery, am a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and completed a plastic surgery fellowship at the Mayo Clinic. I am currently a Clinical Associate Professor of Plastic Surgery at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, serve on the Editorial Board for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, and am now a member of the Editorial Board for PRS Global Open. Castle Connolly has recognized me as a Top Doctor for thirteen consecutive years.
I perform a considerable volume of male aesthetic procedures. I have also increased the rate at which I say no, and I believe that is the critical point of this whole discussion.
Ready to Talk?
If you are a man considering this type of procedure, the crucial question is not which angle you should chase. It is whether the intended change aligns with your facial features and your life, or whether it is simply a pursuit of someone else’s photograph.
For the patient-facing perspective on this, see the companion post on agulloplasticsurgery.com. For the treatment menu behind male aesthetics, see the version on swplasticsurgery.com.
Call (915) 590-7900, text 1-866-814-0038, or book online at agulloplasticsurgery.com. #StayBeautiful.
@RealDrWorldWide on Instagram, TikTok, and Snapchat, @Agullo on X, or @AgulloPlasticSurgery on Facebook.
- Posted on: July 7th 2026
- Category: Aesthetic Surgery, Commentary
The quiet question I answer almost every week, answered plainly: sensation, the clitoral hood detail, recovery, and why this is a no-judgment conversation.
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- Posted on: July 7th 2026
- Category: Aesthetic Surgery, Commentary
The voice drops. That is the tell.
A patient will be five confident minutes into talking about a lift or some liposuction, and then there is a pause, and the volume comes down half a notch, and the real reason she booked finally arrives. It is almost always some version of the same thing. She has been thinking about labiaplasty for a while. Sometimes years. And she has never said it out loud to a single soul.
So let me put the unglamorous part first. In my practice this is one of the most ordinary requests there is, and there is nothing to be embarrassed about. I run it like a rhinoplasty consult. Anatomy, options, honest limits, zero theater. What follows is the candid version, drawn from real consultations and stripped of anything that could identify anyone.
Stop Trying to Sort It Into One Box
Patients walk in already braced for me to ask which it is. Vanity, or a real problem? They have an answer rehearsed, as if the wrong one disqualifies them.
It does not work that way. For most women it is both at once, and both count. Extra tissue tugs under leggings. It chafes on a bike seat. It gets in the way at the gym and it can drive recurrent irritation. If that is your life and you also do not love how things look down there, you do not owe me a single justifying reason. The discomfort is legitimate. So is the preference. Either one, by itself, is plenty to start the conversation.
The Detail Nobody Warns Patients About
Here is the part I refuse to let anyone leave the room without hearing, because it is where a lot of results go wrong.
When I trim the labia minora, I leave tissue behind on purpose. I am not chasing the smallest possible version of you. But trimming the labia alone creates a problem that surprises people: the clitoral hood can suddenly look like it is poking out, simply because the thing that used to balance it is now smaller. Not a flattering trade. And patients are rarely told it is coming.
That is why, in most cases, I reduce the hood a little at the same time. Everything settles flush and proportionate instead of lopsided. If you began with very little tissue, a small amount may still show. Far less than before, though. The goal is the whole picture, not one isolated piece of it.
The Sensation Worry, Answered Like an Adult
This is the fear that keeps women from ever booking, so I will be blunt about it. Will you lose sensation?
Look at the anatomy. I am taking tissue away, and yes, I cut through small nerves to do it. But the nerve stays put on the surface right at the line where I cut. In all my years, loss of sensation simply is not something my patients circle back to complain about. You keep what you walked in with.
There is even a quiet upside. With a little less tissue crowding the clitoris, full sensation often goes up rather than down. The opposite of the thing people are scared of on the way in.
Asleep, Numb, Out in Under an Hour
You do not need general anesthesia for this. I usually use IV sedation, the same deep sleep you would get for a colonoscopy. We place the IV, you drift under, I numb everything with local, and I do the work. No memory of it, no feeling of it. If you would genuinely rather have general, it is available, but it is overkill here.
The procedure itself runs under forty-five minutes. Here is the day and the weeks after, side by side.
| Question | The Honest Answer |
|---|---|
| Anesthesia | IV sedation, like a colonoscopy (general optional) |
| Procedure time | Under forty-five minutes |
| Pain | Usually minimal; Exparel numbs the area about three days |
| Spotting | A little, for a couple of days |
| Back to work | About five days, nothing strenuous, under fifteen pounds |
| Intercourse | Wait four weeks |
| Exercise | Four weeks |
| Final look | Visible right away, settles by four to six weeks as swelling fades |
No, There Will Not Be a Keloid
People ask this constantly, usually because they keloid on an ear or across the chest and assume every incision behaves the same. It does not.
I have never once seen a keloid form here. Not in all my years. Keloids live on ankles, shoulders, ears, the sternum, places that stretch and pull and stay under tension. The genital region is a different material altogether, more mucosa and skin, and it is not yanked around the way those high-tension spots are. It is just not where keloids show up.
Why I Take My Time on the Symmetry
Early on you may catch some unevenness in the mirror. Almost always that is swelling, because one side likes to puff up more than the other for a while. Underneath it, like breasts, the two sides were never perfectly identical to begin with. My job is to get them as even as the anatomy honestly allows, and I will not close a case until I am satisfied with what I am looking at.
If a touch-up is ever called for down the road, my revision policy means I do not charge for the revision itself, only the operating room and anesthesia time.
The Credential Behind the Candor
I am a double board-certified plastic surgeon, certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and the American Board of Surgery, a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, with a plastic surgery fellowship from the Mayo Clinic. None of that buys you a fancier technique here. What it buys you is a straight conversation. I will tell you plainly whether removing more is realistic for your anatomy, and I will not sell you a result I cannot actually deliver.
This is a private decision, and it deserves a surgeon who treats it as a perfectly normal one. For the patient-facing walkthrough, see the companion post on agulloplasticsurgery.com. For skin and recovery support after intimate procedures, the team lays it out on swplasticsurgery.com.
Ready to Talk?
If this is something you have quietly wondered about, you can ask me directly and privately. There is no wrong way to start. Call (915) 590-7900, text 1-866-814-0038, or book online at agulloplasticsurgery.com. #StayBeautiful.
@RealDrWorldWide on Instagram, TikTok, and Snapchat, @Agullo on X, or @AgulloPlasticSurgery on Facebook.
