Nuviya clinical leadership
Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer
CRM-SP 231278 · RQE 136020 · Member, Sociedade Brasileira de Cirurgia Plástica (SBCP)
Dr Leandro Gregório is a plastic surgeon registered with the São Paulo state medical council and a member of the Sociedade Brasileira de Cirurgia Plástica. He co-founded Nuviya and serves as Chief Medical Officer, leading surgeon verification and setting the clinical standards every surgeon on the platform is assessed against. He writes here on surgical technique, patient safety, recovery and credential verification, and reviews every clinical article published on this site. His registration is publicly verifiable — and he would encourage you to check it, and to check any surgeon you are considering, the same way.
Facial surgery is where marketing language has drifted furthest from clinical reality. What the techniques actually are, what each costs, and why the recovery is longer than anyone tells you.
Most people who lose a very large amount of weight need two or three operations, not one. Why the sequence matters, where Medicare genuinely fits, and the nutritional checks that decide whether you heal well.
Male surgery is not the same operation performed on a different patient. Different fat, thicker skin, higher bleeding risk and a different aesthetic target — and a surgeon who plans it identically is not accounting for any of it.
Your scar will look worse at three months than it did at three weeks, and that is normal. What the evidence actually supports, what does not work despite being widely sold, and when a scar needs a clinical opinion.
Four destinations, honestly compared — including the three procedures where Brazil is the wrong answer and you should go somewhere else.
A surgeon explaining how to check other surgeons — including his own registration numbers, and the four things a before-and-after gallery has to show before it means anything.
The article nobody wants to read before booking, and everybody wishes they had. What to do right now if you are worried, and what to arrange before you fly if you are not.
The stay lengths on our site are not comfort thresholds. They are clot-risk thresholds, and this is the one number in your whole plan you should not negotiate.
Australian quotes for a mummy makeover run from A$22,000 to A$47,000, and almost none of them are like-for-like. What the operation actually is, what drives the range, where Medicare fits, and how the all-in Brazil figure compares.
Quotes for the same abdominoplasty can differ by more than $15,000. The three types of tummy tuck, what the Australian quote leaves out, what recovery is really like, and how the all-in Brazil figure compares.
Augmentation, lift and reduction are three different operations with three different price tags. Which one your anatomy actually calls for, what each costs in Australia, and where the Brazil saving is largest — and smallest.
Gynaecomastia is glandular tissue, not fat, and no amount of training removes it. What the surgery involves, where Medicare fits, and the questions that separate a careful surgeon from a salesperson.
One title requires accredited specialist training. The other historically required nothing beyond medical registration. What the reforms changed, and how to check any surgeon yourself in about two minutes.
Sutures that poke through, strips that curl at the edges, glue that peels off in flakes — most of what alarms people after surgery is normal. Here is what each closure does, and the signs that are not normal.
Written by an Australian who moved to Brazil and has an obvious commercial interest in your decision. The risks that are real, the ones that are overstated, and the people who genuinely should not travel.
Verified, board-certified and English-speaking, in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.
