Dr Yco's Mini Face Lift Not Worth It! Encinitas, CA

Thank you so much for posting. So many people dont and you can help so many others by voicing your outcome, Thanks a lot. I almost chose Dr.Yco and now will consider a different Plastic Surgeon thanks again.

To the person suggest a law suite you seem a bit to quick to grab the gun. She is not damaged and one would wonder why at 38 she needs a lift? If you don't have much to life then you will not great results. She looks fine and it looks like she has a problem under the chin and that would take another procedure.

Me too

P.S. if you charged some or all to a credit card and didn't pay the bill yet you can put it in dispute. I think your photo documents are excellent proof that although he may have made incisions that was all he did. Who pays for an expensive hair styylinist for tiny snips that leave them with the exact same length and shape?

I really want to get a full REFUND but its highly unlikely especially when he takes your money and ignores you after! my mini lift was done 1 month ago. No Different at all ONLY THE SCARS! all my $$$$ time and loss of work really has cost me around $6,500 in total I am glad that informing the public about what kind of ethics his practice is running. I still have not heard back from Dr. Yco or his staff.

I just learned from a RealSelf video interview with Dr. Paul Nassif that you should avoid anything called "mini" because it doesn't last..probably a skin only lift..and is still a big price; however yours looks like you barely had any skin removed. I find your story interesting because I went to a con artist who said he would try Plan A for $2,500 then if it didn't work would offer Plan B...a lower face lift. Well, after seeing Plan A was a complete joke (like your "mini-lift") I thought this guy must think women are stupid. He would have given me an expensive f/l that would have also looked like nothing was done. So I think you've figured that one out as well. The fact this surgeon told you your "mini lift" would look better after swelling goes down shows how disingenuous he's been with you. Results always appear exaggeratedly good with swelling' since it's all about correcting laxity, so more time=more laxity. However you saw nothing different with swelling so what he did made no cosmetic sense; essentially, you paid him a chunk of cash to practice incisions on you. If you charged your surgery to a major credit card they can put the unpaid charge into dispute but if you paid off the balance it's too late. Also, go in to view your medical records asap on the spot and take pictures of the operative report on your cell phone camera. You don't necessarily need an appointment to view your medical record but maybe give them a heads up day before and be as polite as you can and bring your own witness. You have the legal right to view your records on request, no waiting. For xerox copies there's a fee and they are allowed a few weeks to process, by law. But if they refuse any or all of your chart access requests you can file a complaint with the state medical board and the agency that regulates HIPPA (privacy act). Outside of the surgeon wanting to resolve the problem with you personally, the credit card dispute resolution is your only consumer protection option. Once you get your operative report, you can take it with you to future consultations as a point of discussion for requesting a REAL lift next time! I just want to pass along this advice to anyone else who might benefit. It took me two years to sort this all out and wish I had known about the credit card dispute process early on! Good luck and don't let this surgeon's actions get you down!

I appreciate your response. I will in fact go and view my records, I don't believe he did anything but tear me open and sew me back up, unfortunately I paid him by cashiers check. these people even put in a good word for him on Realself. now I realize it was his office coordinator!

I'm hoping this doctor will view this and at least offer a solution , I doubt very much he will give me any of my money. he even claimed that the lipo was free of charge! A whopping $5,500.00 for scars on my.. that is basically what I paid for SCARS!

Forive my wordiness but I want to share what many others "in the know" taught me about this industry and when to finally admit defeat. First, many face lifts include lipo free of charge. My first "mini-lift" did and it ended up creating a "cobra neck deformity" which is near impossible to correct; although I persisted over a decade to help diminish the appearance of it...I'm in the top 2% of cosmetic patients who never never never give up. So I found out after my first "mini-lift" there were 2 surgeons who signed the op report and my surgeon may have let someone else practice lipo on me since he had me sign a permission form for the "free lipo." If your surgeon is already stonewalling you it's nice to get a copy of the operative report before he has a chance to rewrite it, just a heads up on that. My botch history on the lower chin was then made even worse by inattentive and inexperienced treatments later on and I managed to resolve them with face to face meetings with the bungling surgeons who gave me refunds. I persisted by arguing and maintaining that photographs depict results truthfully. All surgeons will try to wear you down by telling you true results cannot be seen for at least six months to a year...but almost every time the result looks worse because aging and gravity keep marching on...and we have to explain Physics 101 to them while they pretend not to know??? (*eye roll*) Every plastic surgery is about artful cosmetic results to improve upon the original complaint, and if you end up with no results or a worse problem it's worth continuing discussion with the surgeon for a refund. So I agree, try it and see what happens. If you don't try you won't know. Give him the opportunity to explain why there is no perceptible lift or tightness in your lower face as shown in your before and after photos after only one month...and be sure to mention Physics101. Let him know that in order to get a perceptible result you will now have to pay for another procedure all over again. Appeal to his sense of fairness and if he's not willing to compromise with either a full or partial refund then you have to admit defeat because there's no written law or standard to compel him to refund the money. Then consider you did the public a favor by posting your experience on RealSelf so others will be forewarned by your experience and you are protected by "Anti Slapp" legislation and ultimately First Amendment right. There's no guarantee he won't treat other unsuspecting cosmetic consumers any better and it may be his intent to lead patients from one expensive "no result" procedure to the next because it's lucrative and he's successful with it. Some of these surgeons actually succeed because many of their patients have money to burn and they love the attention of their p/s's who even idolize them, after all the surgeon's marketing agents make them appear like demigods. But these surgeons should understand that when they leave hard-working people who scraped together money to get improved for perhaps employment opportunity reasons, etc., and then they deliver a "no result" result and leave them that "wtf??" feeling, they should expect to read all about it on the public review websites. Most reasonable surgeons want very satisfied customers but if your surgeon ends up stonewalling you even more or is unyielding face to face, then give it up because your frustration will only hurt you and here's the real kicker someone "in the know" explained to me recently....if you keep after him with any kind of lawsuit, small claims or otherwise, believe it or not he can try to a counter sue by handing it over to his evil malpractice defense lawyers. So take heed! For tread carefully, and be as polite as possible while negotiating because they can write whatever they want about you in your chart, dismiss you permanently. Then, it's all bets off! In the meantime, you learned about being a smarter consumer so this doesn't happen again. Good luck with the negotiation and give us an update. I'm pulling for you!

I'm only 1 month post op. WITH NO RESULTS!