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Browlift Threadliftt Puckering / Pinched - Lifestyle Lift, Ontario, CA

Name: Browlift Threadliftt Puckering / Pinched - Lifestyle Lift, Ontario, CA
Item: Brian K. Machida, MD, FACS
Rating: 1
Author: sgmcgow

ORIGINAL POST

I believe it was conned by Lifestyle lift. This...

sgmcgowNovember 28, 2013

$5,000

I believe it was conned by Lifestyle lift. This procedure was not explained to me correctly, i was told it would be it easy told that barbed stuchers would provided a lift on my eyes. I was informed these would be placed in a v that would heighten the corners and lift my brow. I was informed also this procedure would allow for return to work within two weeks.
There is more that happened to me, but now I need to find out if their is anyway the pinch rd and puckered skin on my forehead (w brows) can be fixed.
Also, is it true this procedure is no longer in the USA? if so why does lifestyle lift perform it?

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Brian K. Machida, MD, FACS

Board Certified Facial Plastic Surgeon

4.9 | 469 Reviews

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Replies (5)

Katrina64

November 30, 2013

I have a friend who had this threading done back in the early 2000s on her face. She had a lot of problems with it. The threads started to poke through her cheek. I remember thinking that I would NEVER have that type of procedure. I brought it up with my Lifestyle Lift consultant (just making conversation) & she said US doctors do NOT perform the procedure because of all the problems associated with it. I don't understand why your eyebrows seem to be gone.

sgmcgow

December 8, 2013

w wow, if only I would have known, for some reason I always see good in people, I'm not stupid just ignorant to scam artists. Shame on me for believing people are good.

Margot530

November 22, 2014

You had a horrible experience sweetie, and for that I am truly sorry. I'm here to see if this may be the right procedure for me. At this point I'm definitely staying away. However its due to good people like you who are brave and generous enough to come forward, tell their stories, as difficult as that is, and warn others away. Please don't allow this to change your outlook on people in general. I believe people are good, until they prove themselves otherwise, which rarely happens. Not all personalities mesh with mine...but doesn't make them bad. Keep seeing the good hon....what a horrible world if you constantly see only the negatives. Bless your heart. I hope You can get things rectified.

Angie_M

December 1, 2013

Thank you for sharing your experience on RealSelf. How many days post-op were those photos taken?

Donnalin

November 28, 2014

So sorry. That is horrible. I hope you sued them.

UPDATED FROM sgmcgow

1 month post

2 hours meeting with lifestyle manager

sgmcgowDecember 8, 2013

So finnaly I get a response from lifestyle life, (before I bought in, I had to ask them several times to quit calling me). This is the offer, we'll send you to another lifestyle lift r doctor in Orange county. Oh and here's the topper, manager states "I've had a bad foot operations, one was good the other foot bad". REALLY, my God, no one compares a foot to a face. And to top it All off she tells me she had been in the field of plastic surgery for 40 years, yet she hasn't ever had a thing done. 66 yes old And looks every day of it. What on earth are these people trying to prove, (stupid, mad, unhappiness, lierers, con artistry......because certainly that's where the artistry lies, not in the promised.

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Cyn21

June 6, 2015

Do ur homework . Lsl is a procedure made up by a doctor , years ago , to make cash fast! A REAL PLASTIC Surgeon does a Face lift , jowl & neck lift & pulls the muscle. These other names for the real Surgeries are money making disasters. Sorry this happened to u. Interview several REAL plastic surgeons , they will laugh when asked about these LSL procedures.

UPDATED FROM sgmcgow

1 month post

would not give me my medical file

sgmcgowDecember 8, 2013

So while I was speaking withy manager, I requested over dozen times to see my file, I stated it was my right, after listening to her tell me about her stories of whoe, (foot thing) she leaves the room and comes back with a condensed version of file. I know what he file looked like when she was speaking with me and I know what he notes stated, as the Dr. Michicha told me on my second consultantation, he had wrote down information about my resent trip from Italy.