How Long After a Finger Is Severed Can It Be Reattached? Era Plastic Surgery, now open in Catskills.

All right, boys, today I'm going to talk about something very important, especially now for the summer. And I'm going to talk today about era plastic surgery with Shamai Ackerman. This is Shamai Ackerman. He's a brother from Jeff Ackerman. From Rise Architecture from Okachovi. Okachovi, I got it. But today I want to talk about something very, very important. Shamai, I think you should I'll give you the word. >> Thank you, friend, for coming down. So good to see you. So good to see you. Um the reason I called you down specifically now is because our office in the Catskills is actually we're opening this week. And we open >> So you have an office in Lakewood, which is located over here 1999 >> Cedar Bridge Avenue. >> Avenue, Lakewood, New Jersey. And you're opening up now in the Catskills. Where in the Catskills? >> Like Sheldrake, starting this week. >> What's the address? >> 86 Harmony S Way. Until the end of the season we'll have we'll have availability in the Catskills as well. Um People come here to our Lakewood location all the way from Monroe sometimes. >> Yeah, I hear that. So let me comment on the special cases that Ackerman do in Monroe. Like in Monroe, what does Ackerman do there? So tell us about your specialty. I know there's a lot of people that are taking care of stitches and of missing >> is pretty common thing. A lot of people do stitches. A lot of, you know, our hospitals do stitches. People come here specifically and they travel for hours to come here um because when you come here the biggest issue that people come here for or especially on the face they're worried about scarring and they know when they come here they will not have a scar or have a minimal as possible scar. As you can see from all these thank you letters. >> Wow. Kick to here the boys say. All of the thank you letters one of them is getting shipped to Beautiful, beautiful. By the way, how long has your wife been doing this uh this already? >> Almost 20 years she's been >> 20 years. >> Yeah. >> So we did here something very unique. We took plastic surgery and turn and apply it stitches, which is a very, very unusual thing for plastic surgeons to do. And my wife went ahead and learned all the plastic surgery techniques and procedures and artistry to to apply them specifically for stitches. And that results in ex- much less scarring than you would otherwise get. And that's why people travel for hours to come here because they want those results. The second thing that people travel here for is something not so good to talk about. It's fingertip amputations. So, people chop off their fingertips. >> Oy vay vay. He actually, by the way, he actually showed me pictures. >> Uh you don't want to see the pictures. >> I am not going to post it. Plus, I got some board some pictures. So, let's mention them give us some before and afters. You probably not believe that they came >> Nassau orthopedic associates. >> I'm only going to show the after picture. Where's that picture from the kid that had the whole thing on the >> Which one? The fingers? >> No, the fingers. No, I understand. No, on the forehead. >> This one. >> No, the before. >> [laughter] >> I was watching the before, but kick zone kick zone. Look at this Look at this. He had stitches all over his forehead and not even a break off. >> It hurts. It takes the heart to heal to do it properly so that it should heal properly, to take every ounce of khokhmah to make it perfect. Every inch is precisely placed to make it as perfect as possible so that it should be less scarring. The other thing that I wanted to talk about was the fingertip amputations. It was a tragedy when they came. >> [laughter] >> People travel from all over the place specifically when people chop off their fingertips, whether it's in the door or any other way that a kid or an adult chops the fingertip off. Um the general accepted procedure is just to knob it. It means they just close it up, and you end up with a shorter finger. And we actually here reattach it and spend weeks following up on it to make sure it heals properly. >> So, you actually You actually have people come in with a chopped off fingers? >> All the time. Finger You call it fingertip in a bag. You get it all the time, and people travel from all over for it cuz we have a name for it, and officially, um, success rate on fingertip amputations is 50/50. We have over a 95% success rate, but wow >> Wow. >> of heart that goes into it, and a lot of um, a lot of What was that? >> Passion. >> A lot of passion that goes into it, and a lot of follow-up that goes into it. We have achieved over 95% success rate, and people travel from all over just for that. >> Let me ask you a quick question. If How does the shul not have a shul that happens to someone? A kid the kid did not eat and you kid should I call you so you see how the shul the finger on the floor. So, let's say till that till it comes or till something. What How long can it take from when the finger is down till it has to be till it can be attached again? >> The first thing you need to know is that that fingertip needs to go taken care of properly so that it shouldn't die off. It has to go into a plastic bag, and that plastic bag has to go into a bag of ice. You don't want it directly on the ice, but you want it in a bag, and that bag should go into the ice, and that way you get to last a little longer. It still doesn't have >> bit longer what means a little bit longer? Hours? >> Hours. Just to I wouldn't really answer that. >> Yeah, time is of the essence. Time is oxygen, so the sooner you put it on, the better the chances are. That being said, I have stitched fingers back on like 17, 18 hours later with >> Wow, 17, 18 hours is something else. >> that's extreme case. We don't want to We don't advise that. The sooner the better, but first thing is put it on the in a bag, and put that bag into ice so that it could hold. >> All right, so what I wanted to say to finalize to summarize this whole thing, this whole interview, basically, if you need any stitches like a professional, if you need have any finger What's the name? What's the >> Fingertip amputations. >> Fingertip amputations, whatever it >> We're also doing in the cast office, we're also doing earlobe earlobe repairs, mole removals, scar revisions. We do a lot of different things, but I mostly wanted to focus on the stitches because it's the summer, and we get a ton of injuries in the >> And also another thing which you told me is if you come back years later and you did not know about your service and you come back with somebody did a sloppy job when the kid was 9 years old and they did it in the registry room so then it has a huge >> scar or whatever you want to remove it. There is something called a scar revision where we could cut out the scar and close it back up again and make it look nice. But let's avoid that and just get taken care of initially the right way so you won't have to deal with it. >> Phone number if someone wants to reach out to this office and this office in the Catskills is the same number? >> It's two different numbers but both numbers ring in all places. So it's 732-730-7333. The Catskills is 845-434-5060. But either number rings everywhere. >> And the address over here is 1999 Cedar Bridge Ave, Lakewood, New Jersey and one more time in the Catskills >> 86 Harmonious Way, Loch Sheldrake. >> 86 what? >> Harmonious Way in Loch Sheldrake, New York. >> Thank you so much and let's look at our brother.