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Best Thing I Ever Did for Myself! - Seattle, WA

Not Happy with Cheek Lift (Mid-face Suspension) - Scottsdale, AZ

Very Unhappy - Scottsdale, AZ

Thank you, leniesart.

It is also not full-disclosure surgeons''s provide a packet of written material with the potential side-effects buried in them and never actually talking about them with the patients. It is rear-end covering without ensuring the patients did actually read them, which is not good medicine and plastic surgeons are medical professionals. It is also disingenuous to provide the material and then when patients like me, who reads everything I'm provided, asks questions about some of the potential problems, to merely wave it away and tell the patient she or he has nothing to worry about, which is what my surgeon and his patient coordinator both did. And there was nothing in the material or in anything he said to me to warn me that my mouth might change, nothing. There were multiple references to doing everything they could to ensure patients are happy with the outcomes, but then he refused to even listen to me or talk to me about what I didn't like, fixed my chin in the fasted, least complicated way possible (leaving me with the large visible scar and I paid a premium price for my surgeries!) and seemed anxious to for me to be gone. I sure never heard a peep from his office after I left following up to see how I am.

Thank you Faith2012, and I'm sorry for what you are suffering.

Your outcome looks very nice in these photos.

Faith2012 , The same thing happened to me. I went to an initial appointment to ask about a neck/chin lift and possibly eye lid surgery, but then the surgeon recommended a mid-face lift and forehead lift, and he told me I would have better, more natural results. He said I would still look like me, only rested and youthful because it would look so natural. He did not answer all of my questions and he brushed off any concerns I had as unnecessary worries. They rushed me from the consult appointment directly into his "patient coordinator's" office where she assumed I was going to schedule the surgeries and made me feel a little pressured to get an appointment before he was too booked. I tried to back out of the surgeries altogether a few weeks before my appointment, but she was aggressive about insisting I just had cold feet, but to trust the doctor because I would be thrilled with the results. Foolishly, I let her pressure me to go ahead. Despite being more expensive than the average going rate, the surgeon did not remove enough eyelid skin to make much of a difference because he, thankfully, was being conservative due to the swelling from the other procedures before he got to my eyes. He told me that would happen so he would tweak them later. He didn't and he had no interest in even discussing it with me. So after paying a premium price, my eyelids are still quite heavy. The forehead lift also was very minimal; certainly not worth the pain, loss of hair and hairline, nerve damage, and still nighttime itching on my scalp more than two years later! One unanticipated after-effect he never mentioned it that the surgery has made the difference in my eye sizes more obvious! I don't know why, but before the surgery the fact that my left eye is smaller than my right was rarely noticeable, but now it is. I'm shocked by it when I see photos of myself now. It is the same for my cheeks. Everyone's face is different on side from the other, but like with most people, it wasn't obvious before my surgery. Now it is! One cheek is much fuller than the other. It looks like two faces on one. Also, what he didn't tell me, and most don't tell patients this in advance, the mid-face lift also made my nose look a little larger. When the rest of the face is pulled up, the nose that's aged isn't pulled up too but just stays where it was, creating the look of a longer nose. It's true of the ears too, but my hair covers my ears so that doesn't really matter to me. Also, because he pulled up my mid-face, where he stitched me it makes my nostrils pull up and out when I smile, adding to the beak look and I hate it! Furthermore, it pulls the skin on my nose differently from before, more to one side than before which changes how the flesh sits on the top of my nose. Because the flesh doesn't sit where it did, there is an indentation on the top of the end of my nose, changing the shape just enough to create a little hook at the end. My nose looks bigger with a hook at the end, like a beak. Now I don't like my nose profile either! I was worried about being left with a lumpy chin, but the patient coordinator insisted I would be left with "a firm, smooth chin" that I would "love and be very happy with." It turned out lumpy and when he fixed it, he left me with a huge, visible scar under my chin all the way to the top of my throat. He said he needed to it that way to get the best result. He's already been too aggressive the first time and he'd damaged a gland under my left ear.That gland kept swelling up like a toad's for a year before it finally quit. At six months post-surgery, he said he didn't know why it was swelling. Yes he did. Worst of all, he ruined my smile. My upper lip is different now and when I smile, it is obvious where he stitched everything together on each side of my nose, and it pulls tight creating an ugly ridge running horizontally under my nose. He never said anything about lifting my upper lip or making it tight! At six months post-surgery I told him I was embarrassed by smile and asked if anything could be done about and his response was to say, "Don't be a glass half-full person!" I would never have agreed to that procedure if he'd told me it was a possibility this would be my outcome! Before the surgery, I had a pretty smile other people liked. Now I avoid smiling and I am mortified by it. It's been two years with no improvement. I think there needs some ethics reforms imposed on this profession, requiring full and honest disclosure, no commissions for anyone working in the office with patients, as I now suspect the patient coordinator was, and not operating on any patients expressing doubt and/or a desire to cancel or postpone these surgeries. Good luck to you.