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14 month post op - back in England
I want them out but whilst I CAN have that done, they will, I am told, look a mess for a whole variety of reasons. Cost for explant with mastoplexy: £5,800
Or explant and replace with much smaller, anatomical implants with mastoplexy, but run the risk of having CC again. cost £6,800.
Ooofffff!
I feel sick with the whole thing.
almost a year on
The other one is still pointy though which is a shame, but I am focusing on my good one.
Dr C did not charge me for the repair to my scar.
photos
The more time passes and the clearer it is that this pointy-torpedo look is the one I'm stuck with, the more angry I am. While I am aware PSs can't give 100% assurances, I think you'll agree, that given the attached dream examples that I showed him, and which he told me in an email that I would have, my results are so far from what I had been lead to believe I would get. I really don't like them.
In the mail in which I attached my example, preferred breast shape, I said this was what I was after, and that if he didn't think I could get this shape, could he tell me which shape I could get. This is the mail to his secretary: “Please pass on the attached selection of pictures to Dr Carmona. It is important that he is aware of the SHAPE of breast I would like. Most of the breasts in the pictures are too big for me but it is the shape I am after, …. so if Dr C does not think I can have something like this shape, I would like to be shown the shape he thinks he can achieve.”
So I gave him the opportunity to tell me there and then that this shape was not possible. He chose not to tell me that but instead, his secretary wrote back: “Dr. Carmona saw the pictures, and he says that's the shape you'll get.”
On the basis of this clear and confident assurance, I proceeded. As you can see,
I don't think he can claim to have given me the shape he said I would have.
3/4 of the implant is above the pole and so they bulge out in an unnatural, fake manner. And as I have furry Brazilians, this is where they are staying.
It seems that an earlier email was also not noted:
“I am specifically looking for very natural breasts that are round and with my nipple in the middle - not at a pointy end. They feel horrible at the moment - I can FEEL that they are pointy and I hate this. At the same time, I don't really mind having small breasts - it is the shape I dislike intensely.”
I'm very probably going to have my left breast operated on for a 3rd time. In the interests of fairness and honest feedback, I will report what happens, good or bad, hereafter.
But how I feel now, is that I want my money back.
Provider Review
Dr Carmona and his team are very lovely and caring. He is wholly likeable and has a great bedside manner. That said, he could have been far more forthcoming, and clear, with several bits of information at various points before and after my operation. This would have had a huge impact on my expectations and the resulting scars. (And overall I am not happy with my results and am having to have them explanted or redone - this part is a 14 month update. Just came back from a different surgeon's today) I had to have my breasts re-operated on, on day 10. My left breast was in constant pain and the implant wasn't sitting right, so he called me in to have it redone. I was anxious as to who would be paying for this but he said the cost was his, as he wanted to get it right, and that his name is his guarantee. I paid for nothing therefore. I recovered much better second time round and went straight home. All of this was great. He said that last year about 30% of his patients were from Canada. I would NOT recommend travelling (to anyone) if you have a breast deformity like me as it has not been plain sailing and I have had to go back to him so many times. I am not happy with my breasts - they are nothing like the shape I was assured I would have. Also, as I was unaware that stitches may well - and did - poke through my scars, I thought I had an infection when what it was was the stitches. I wasted therefore valuable time taking more antibiotics when what was needed was the 'spitting' stitches removing. By the time they were they had severely damaged my scar. Mr C assured me on several occasions that I was not to worry as he could fix it in his office - local anaesthetic. At month 6 he told me he couldn't do it as the scar was too thick and that I would have to massage and rub expensive cream in the scar for another 4 months! I wish, once, again, he had told me this far sooner. Other people, without breast abnormalities, have had great results - I'm just not one of them. HE is happy with my results but neither I nor my boyfriend are, sadly. I have 3 more months of cream rubbing before he is/is not able to rectify my thick ugly scar. That will then be 9 months post op. Overall - I cannot recommend Dr Carmona, because although I liked him, I did not like his results starting with me ending up with a C cup when I expressly said I didn't want to be this large,and also a shape that I don't like and am having to have taken out or redone at huge expense.