“False Surgery - Beverly Hills, CA”

After unprofessional facelift and abdominal liposuction by another doctor I was looking for a help from Dr A. He had a good reviews so even I didn't see amazing before & after pictures, I thought he probably would be excellent surgeon. I was looking for a facial fat transfer and mini facelift so everything was good at the consultation because Dr A agreed. He was willing to fix my abdomen as well so we closed the deal with $12.000. I was happy for my decision even in some reason Dr A wrote on the procedure paper a Scar Revision - not a facelift. I did correct him by saying that I do not need a scar revision but he calmed me down. He said I don't have to worry about it because he will fix my unbalanced face with a mini facelift.

My surgery was on january 2010 and I was excited. Dr A put me under the general anesthesia so when I woke up, there was a huge surprise waiting for me. I didn't have a facelift bandage and my face looked good - too good, if you know what I mean. There was no bruises, no tightness from the facelift and my lips weren't swollen even fat transfer into my lips was part of the surgery. I was wearing a liposuction garment by the doctor's order so I didn't see my tummy area until the very next day. There was another surprise - no bruises or soreness on my abdomen. First I was wondering how great surgeon Dr A must be but soon I started to suspect he didn't perform those procedures at all.

I was confused so I emailed him for asking what was going on in my surgery. His response Feb 11th: "I did everything I told you we would do. I excised over two centimeters of face skin from around your right ear, and over one centimeter from around your left ear." and he continued "I told you we try our best to lipo your abdomen to make it better" and "I spent over 45 minutes on doing your abdomen". february 17th he sent another email regarding my 'not so pretty after surgery' earlobe: "Could the earlobe turned out better? Maybe, but it could not have been made better in the SAME procedure at the same time in the SAFE manner because of the fact that we did the minilift too". After these emails I was even more confused because my doctor gave me a specific details of procedures and I was sure - based on my after surgery face and body - those things were not done. He told me there was a mini facelift and abdominal liposuction but I did not believe him.

I ordered The Operative Report and learned - there was NO facelift. I learned also that abdominal liposuction never took a place so I was wondering what kind of person is Dr A. I never thought plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills can put me into sleep and trick me like this. I was dumbfounded. Thanks to Dr A I lost my money, I lost my vacation and top of that I was wearing an uncomfortable garment for ten days 24/7 even there was NO liposuction. Sad part is he never apologized or thought he did anything wrong. He was acting like nothing happened and refused return my money:(

Updated on 23 Jun 2011:
Because so many members are wondering this review I am willing to give more information. I understand your suspicious mind because this is a crazy story. Anyhow - unfortunately - this false surgery by this doctor is 100% true. I received wrong information about my surgery via multiple e-mails from him even there was no face lift or abdominal liposuction in The Operative Report. He tricked me in the big way and to be honest, I still feel silly about it. I really was wearing super tight garment 10 days 24/7 by the doctor's order for nothing. Okay, I was stupid... why on earth I didn't know right after surgery there was no face lift or abdominal liposuction. Reason is this: Dr A. performed fat transfer to my face and because so, he took fat from my abdominal. That was the reason there was a bruises on the tummy area and the face so even my tummy wasn't completely sore it took a time until I figured out I didn't get ANY result. He also cut open both of my ear lines but no because face lift. Based on The Operative Report, he performed me a scar reversion. Funny part is I received a scar revision from this doctor even I didn't have visible scars. After all these procedures my face was tremendously swollen and stitches were running front of the ears. Later, when all puffiness went down, I was sure all the details in his emails were false. Nonsense, right?

Top of the all these crazy things Dr A. put fat into wrong places and mostly I hated my funny looking "side" cheeks. Couple months ago I went through microliposuction so my situation is much better now.