Upper Lip Lift with Dr. Randal Haworth - Beverly Hills, CA

I am sorry you were not happy with your result. I think it is disingenuous to state you rarely hear of anyone happy with his results. If you place his name on this site you can see ALL of his reviews. Most of his reviews are positive. I did as you suggested and it showed your picture, but it is from a distance. I can barely see your nose due to that picture is from a distance and I am not able to enlarge it. I am sorry you did not have a good experience, and have empathy for you, but please know other patients have had a good experience with this doctor.

That is interesting. You can barely see her nose. WOW, it is very obvious that she has a ball on her tip. This banter sounds like a broken record already, someone who has a bad result with this doctor, someone who is actually brave enough to post their pictures; within minutes the validity of their pictures are questioned. What is so fascinating is that this poor girls results are being questioned by someone who just had surgery with this man. Just like you are sharing your pictures privately with people, there have been MANY people who did not have good results with this man who have shared their pictures privately too. I hope that all of you remember the policy of realself taken off of another thread that had to do with this doctor. "Your comments were removed because they violated our Community Guidelines. All experiences and opinions are welcome on RealSelf. We don't allow community members to question the validity of another person's story, whether it's positive or negative. If you have concerns about specific reviews or comments, please email us and we will look into it. Thank you, --Sharon "

I am so sorry for your pain. Please know that there are many people who support you and pray for you. It is very obvious from your pictures what happened to you.

" All experiences and opinions are welcome on RealSelf. We don't allow community members to question the validity of another person's story, whether it's positive or negative." I am quoting the above. You should not question the validity of my experience with this doctor, as it was a positive one. I stated I could not see a clear view of that persons nose in the picture she provided. When I click her picture, it does not enlarge. It is not a close up and clear with a before picture like skingirls. That is not questioning the validity of her story. I cannot see her nose clearly. I will refer others to him due to the experience I have had. He did an excellent job with my procedures and continue to provide post op care.

I get an e-mail sent to my phone whenever there is a response to this string. This happens to anyone who writes on a string on this site. In response to your comment about "posting within minutes" .

To those of you considering surgery. Know that false online reviews are everywhere. See a recent New York Times article, "In a Race to Out-Rave, 5-Star Web Reviews Go for $5" {Third party website removed by RealSelf. Please see community guidelines for posting here.}  As businesses rely more and more on attracting customers through their online reviews, some businesses pay others to write them, some have their staff or friends do it, and some make deals with their customers in exchange for their promotional efforts. To say that this is what is happening here would violate the guidelines . Be wary, do your research and let your own judgement be the guide. This is a very important thing to be aware of when researching any business, but even more so when it comes to something so life altering as a selecting a surgeon. Know the warning signs. Look to see if the business has lots of false positive reviews pulled from review sites that screen for this. Look at the tone of the reviews and the reviewers, do they read like promotional material or an honest account of an individuals experience? Do these reviewers act in a way that is unlike a normal customer-sending links to the businesses website or engaging in above and beyond activity relating to promotion of the business? Do they comment elsewhere or only on threads related to the business in question? Also, look to see how the business deals with negative reviews as this is an important indication of how you, as a customer will be treated if things don't go well for you. Be careful and good luck! There are a lot of unscrupulous doctors out there that could care less about your results as long as they get your money. There are also some very talented and ethical doctors out there that take excellent care of their patients. The difficult part is distinguishing one from the other, but fortunately, it is getting easier and easier to tell the difference!

Thanks for posting your tips on finding real reviews. We are constantly trying to hone our tools to filter out reviews that are not real. We verify reviews using both automated and human screening. I personally am on a mission to catch fake reviews and I know that everyone else here on the team feels the same way. I hope this gives you more info into our philosophy and how we operate.

Look at my picture before you refer him to anyone. I will try to post a better picture so you can see better.

You are such a sweetheart for keeping us up to date!!! Any changes when you smile with your teeth showing? I'm so excited to hear you are happy with this. I fantasize EVERY day about getting this done by Dr. Haworth. He is so talented.

Sorry! You already answered this. I'm still excited for you:)

Thank you. Let me end result and my photos speak for themselves. There is someone on my thread who is trashing my photos saying my results are mediocre, but I disagree.

Excuse me, like I said, I am being stalked. By you. Like others, I have the freedom to post my opinion and my review about my experience. I posted a positive review on Dr. Haworth. I was trashed by no less than four people on the thread of Dr. Haworth haters, whom I believe to all be..the same person. Is that you? Saying I look like Edvard Munch's "The Scream" painting, all because you don't like that I asked to compare a clear facial before surgery pic to a post op pic led to me being attacked. And stalked. Now, hunted down on this page. If you continue to do this, say my face based upon my photos looks like I have plastic balls for cheekbones, and questioning everything about me simply because I disagree with your vitriol, I will report and do my best to have you removed from this site.

Elemgee, I did not have filler of any kind put into my lips before or after surgery. I am wearing light make up in my most recent one year post op photos. I like Realself.com. I find the site to be very informative and educational. There isn't a lot of vitriol on here. I find the most credible reviews are coming from those people who post very clear before pics showing what they don't like about their face that they are having operated on, against the postop after pics showing those exact same features once the procedure has been performed. I mean very clear straight on facial shots. It's easy to hide behind a computer and spew venom about doctors and insult other members if you have no photos of yourself, and make any kind of claim you want, about a procedure that you claim you had. But it's people who post factual evidence of before and after recent photos that are the most credible members, in my opinion. I have tried to do this in my thread, to help people draw their own objective conclusions about the procedure, the healing stages without sugar coating them, and the doctor. For someone to come onto my thread to make fun of my photos, say my cheeks are made of plastic balls, that I look like a freakish painting, and call me names on another website based upon my honest, CURRENT photos is harassing and unfortunate. That's not what this site is about. Some people are bizarre. I would hate to be a plastic surgeon.

I am referring to user TMI who posted on my thread after hunting me down from an unrelated site, who goes by username Demii on another site.

Skingirl, I have been reading what you said occurred on another site and I just wanted to post here what Realself's polices are; I copied and pasted this from another thread. It was as in response to someone who questioned the validity of another persons story, similar to what you did to the poster on the other site. So don't you think Real Self has a good strong ethical policy? "Your comments were removed because they violated our Community Guidelines. All experiences and opinions are welcome on RealSelf. We don't allow community members to question the validity of another person's story, whether it's positive or negative. If you have concerns about specific reviews or comments, please email us and we will look into it. Thank you, --Sharon "

SkinGirl, if the RealSelf moderator has the same issue believing my so called "claims" as you do, I will send photos of my Dr Haworth results to the moderator to look over and they can then make the decision as to whether I am an individual patient who has the right to be here and complain or not. You're telling everyone here that everyone who complains about Haworth is one person, as if that is "fact". Rather than being guessed at, these things can easily be checked out "factually" - the webmaster at Doctorscorecard can look up IPs and verify whether the posters are separate people or not. The results may surprise you, but likely won't support the weak argument you're trying to put forward here. Be aware, SkinGirl, that you invited criticism of your own photos because you were dissing the OP's photos who had a bad experience and declaring your own as wonderful. In fact the first point you made in joining that site was "I don't believe the negativity about Dr. Haworth that I am reading, from people claiming to be former patients but who provide no proof" - yet at no point did you ask any of us to provide proof. You made that assertion with no PROOF to hand yourself. You also clearly fail to understand that a review displaying terrible results which includes the doctor's name is not as easy to put forward as a review with great or even so-so results. Not least because of the potential legal implications of putting that kind of evidence into the public realm. There is an element of preparation involved, particularly when it's a clear case of medical malpractice. I do plan to post my entire story and photos in clear, non-edited photos about my experience once I have completed my 3rd attempt at revising his work. And my pictures are very, very clear, I can assure you of that, so you won't be disappointed.

MissMM - thank you.

We are so lucky to have sites like realself that allow people to talk about what happened to them good or bad. They have a straight forward policy that protects people. I wish all of the sites had the same policy. I pray that you, George and others who have been harmed can find some support from sites like these.

Thanks. I am not sure whether they're doing the right thing on this thread ALTHOUGH it is someone else's review, I admit. But I will ask the doctors a few questions about my case. Thank you .

Thank you. I'm happy. That's all that matters in the end, but I was also happy BEFORE surgery and for some people, that makes a huge difference. I'm sorry that some people who claim to be patients of Dr.H's but have posted no pictorial proof of anything, have chosen to turn my opinion about my result into a nasty mud slinging opportunity. Fortunately, the Realself webmaster intervened and sent me an email stating the person who was stalking me on here was reprimanded and is not to continue, and many of his messages on here we're deleted by the webmaster for this reason.

It looks like your swelling went down even after your 13 week pictures to the one year pictures. If you look at the before picture and one year after picture the results are amazing. The space between your upper lip and your lip volume and shape looks perfect. Again, thank you for posting the pictures as t helps those who are going through healing get a better idea.