Founder

Gary Motykie, M.D.
Founder, President, & Chairman of the Board

Dr Motykie believes that the true art of plastic surgery is found in giving patients back the hope that has been stolen from them by a physical deformity. After his work on numerous reality plastic surgery shows, Dr Motykie began to receive thousands of letters from men and women all around the world that all had different stories with one common theme: they all had a physical deformity and no means to correct it. “These patients were broken spiritually and scarred emotionally but they were all still searching for the same seemingly unattainable object: hope.”

Dr Motykie began to notice firsthand that the current medical insurance system did not seem to feel empathy or the need to help many people that had acquired physical deformities. Many of these patients were left feeling like social outcasts, freaks and aliens. “They would slowly begin to withdraw more and more from the world until their protective shells became so thick they would never leave their homes.” Dr Motykie's experience in dealing with these patients initially came from helping breast cancer survivors that were left with scars and loss of breast tissue.

“I initially performed the first breasts cancer surgeries on Dr 90210 because I felt that people needed to see what hope and joy plastic surgery is capable of bringing to patients.” Dr Motykie quickly began to realize that although insurance providers covered the initial reconstruction surgeries of cancer survivors, war veterans and trauma victims, they often did not cover the secondary surgeries for the aesthetic concerns of the patients themselves.

This was also true of the cosmetic surgery patients that were deceived, misled or simply botched. These unfortunate patients were not only left disfigured and/or scarred by previous “bad” plastic surgery; they were often left with no remaining money to pay for a quality revision surgery and even less empathy from the world around them. “These types of surgical results only add emotional trauma to patients who have already overcome so much to simply survive and/or look normal" explains Dr. Motykie.

In 2008, Dr Motykie therefore founded the non-profit organization called The Healing Curve. Its main mission is to provide the reconstructive surgery to patience's with physical deformities that were acquired as a result of a traumatic accident, prior unsuccessful surgeries and\or congenital defects in order to help them regain their bodies, their identity, their self-esteem and their lives. “These people have already been through so much, they deserve the best possible plastic surgery the world can offer” Dr Motykie.