Bad plastic surgery: finding a good reconstructive surgeon?

Unfortunately, your situation sounds like one that often winds up in a lawsuit and so many other doctors will be scared away and won't want to get involved in the process. It also sounds like there may be very limited solutions to your problem especially when nerve injuries have occurred.

Generally, the Craniofacial Surgery experts at the major university teaching hospitals are the most likely doctors you could go to for help.

Your unfortunate problem emphasizes the need to find the right doctor for your first surgery and for the government to regulate what kind of training is required for a doctor to perform surgery.

If, for example, a bad face-lift has been performed, finding a surgeon who specializes in facial plastic surgery, with extensive experiences performing revision face-lifts, is ideal.

It is very important to research your surgeon thoroughly prior to embarking on a face-lift. Complications can and will occur, but an experienced surgeon will be able to keep these to minimum.

I empathise with your problem and your experience.

There is sometimes no way that one can "fix" the problems associated with the scar and surgery done before we get involved. We all wish that we could turn the clock back, but sometimes we just can't. If one is willing to accept the problems that we are dealt with, and move on, then sometimes we can make things better. When we are in that place, then we can turn the page and try to make things better than what they are now.

I feel that this is why other plastic surgeons declined, as they feel that you are not ready to turn that page and start again with where you are now. When you are in that place, try and see someone again. That will be a difference.