Dr. Waldman is an exceptional plastic surgeon. After losing 140 pounds, my goal was not only to remove the excess skin but also to sculpt a more feminine shape (not the easiest of tasks with my body frame!)—and Dr. Waldman delivered! He is straightforward and factual, providing the unvarnished truth, which I greatly appreciate. He doesn’t sugar coat so be prepared to hear the facts clearly and directly. My top priorities were his expertise and the results. In these areas, he excelled, ensuring my safety throughout the process. He adheres strictly to medical guidelines, demonstrating his commitment to patient safety and professionalism. For instance, he enforces a BMI limit for surgical candidates, a policy I respect. While this may prevent some from proceeding with surgery, it ensures that only those who are truly prepared can move forward; I myself nearly faced this situation but managed to meet the requirements prior to surgery. Now, 16 weeks post-procedure, I am thrilled with my results and the smooth healing process. Recovery was challenging and required patience, but my journey went remarkably smoothly for such a major procedure. Dr. Waldman’s ability to deliver on his promises, coupled with his meticulous adherence to safety protocols, truly sets him apart. I am extremely pleased with the outcome and grateful for his expertise.
I went to Dr. Waldman for breast reduction surgery. I have wanted this surgery for quite some time and did a lot of research on surgeons in my area. Dr. Waldman lived up to his reviews and reputation. He is an exceptionally talented surgeon (the ER and post op nursing staff were quick to commend his talent, also, and they've seen him in action countless times). During my initial consultation, Dr. Waldman took plenty of time to explain the procedure and to give me direct and informed answers to my questions. Just before surgery, Dr. Waldman went over everything again: what he was going to do in the operating room and what to expect after surgery. I knew I was in capable hands. The surgery went well without any complications, and 7 weeks later I am thrilled with the results. My followup appointment was today, and I am right on target for recovery. I am so glad I did the research and found such a skilled surgeon to perform my surgery. I recommend Dr. Waldman highly. His staff should also be commended for their professionalism and welcoming attitudes.
I went to Dr Waldman for an interest in an abdominoplasty and I knew I made the right choice. My experience was the best starting at the Consult to Post Operative care. My Pre-op appointment was very thorough with an abundance of information provided and basically everything to expect. Medications were on point and I breezed thru the recovery process with minimal pain where I only took Tylenol. I cannot say enough about Dr Waldman and his staff. They were awesome and the office was very organized. He was very professional, caring and his work and surgical skills are impeccable. Thank you Dr. Waldman for changing my life.
Dr Waldman was the 2nd consultation i had. Immediately in my consultation i wanted to go ahead and book my procedure. He’s very easy going and I felt comfortable asking questions. Before my surgery i was working out 5-6 days a week for 6 years and i had a very hard time seeing results because of the excess skin left from my weight loss. I want to thank Dr Waldman and his staff (surgical team too) they really really really made me feel good before the anesthesia. Also when i woke up they were very caring. They let me take my time waking up. Im 6 weeks post op today and i cant wait to see what the future brings when i continue working out and maintaining my results.
I recently had a tummy tuck with flank lipo and breast reduction with Dr. Waldman and could not be any happier. My results are incredible and the healing process has been a breeze. Dr. Waldman and his staff have been super helpful with any of my questions or concerns and have always made me feel comfortable. I am absolutely thrilled with my new body and can’t thank him enough!
I recently had a tummy tuck and some liposuction done by Dr. Waldman. I had extra skin hanging over a c section scar after having two kids and it was really becoming uncomfortable. I am very happy with the results. The extra skin is gone and now I have the capability of seeing the results from working out. It was a big decision based on cost and helloing time but 110% happy I did this.
2nd shot at lip lift. Zero results from one tried back in 2014 with another doctor. If you google lip lift you’ll see on average results are minimal if even noticeable. Day 1 procedure Getting numb was awful!!! Procedure was easy! Numbed up really good! Took a pain pill before the numbness wore off. Pain pill didn’t fully cover the pain of night one. Even my teeth hurt. Everything from my eye sockets down felt like I had been punched in the face. Burning sensation felt like there was no skin between my nose and upper lip. All the swelling from the numbing agent had worn off before bed and the look was so beautiful. Stitches look like more than they really were due to the marker used to outline Dr. Waldman’s place to cut. I’m mumbling to talk. Eating was an embarrassing task. Day 2 During the night I felt my lip swell into the shape of a flying saucer. I woke the next day and my lip stuck out farther than my chin! My family and I had many laughs over this. Still mumbling still not a good look eating. Day 3 Wth?!?! Even bigger. Throughout the night I could feel it swelling more to the point my lip stuck out so far the inside of lip/mouth was dry up to my teeth. I’m loving my families reactions each morning . I also got my period during this whole process and was amazed at how I could be so bitchy and look my husband straight in the eye with a flying saucer lip. Confidence in myself and/or my marriage is on point! Swelling started to go down as the day went on. Still larger than day 2 but better shape. Starting to look like a huge version of my lip shape. I don’t really NEED pain meds anymore for the level of pain. But, the pain is a constant throbbing that’s nagging after so many hours. I’d be in tears from frustration if I didn’t take something. Still mumbling and gross to be around eating. Day 4 Woke up with a lot of swelling in my sinuses. If I didn’t have this procedure I’d swear I had a bad sinus infection. Far more swelling this time since a relevant amount of skin was actually taken. I look like the baby filter on Snapchat. My lip looks more shapely and pretty today but still far too large. Slowly but surely the swelling is going down. Pain is bearable just annoying. The swelling in my lip has gone down enough to see how significant the swelling in my upper cheeks and under eyes is. Eating and mumbling is getting better. Day 5 I could pass in public as normal minus the stitches. Less swelling everywhere. I’m loving the look. My upper lip still sticks out a little too far. To look at me straight on it is amazing!! I can’t wait to see the full results! Pain is pretty much gone except some aching in my sinus. No need for pain meds since day 3 and I could have lived without on day 3. Day 8 Stitches out! 2 weeks post op I am over the moon!
I found Dr Waldman and his entire staff to be very personable. I had upper eyelid surgery and I do not have a single complaint. He was very caring and very detailed. I had considered having this done for many years but finally got up the nerve to do so. After my experience with he and his staff I would have to say if I wanted to do anything else I would go to him! Pam
Ready for a book? I want to give the whole story so you can see how amazing it was to have a PS who cared so much. I saw Dr Waldman in 2012 for a revision of my lift/BA. I had my original lift/BA in 2008 in Cairo, Egypt, where we were living before moving to NH. I found him on Real Self. He did an awesome job, he’s very sweet, and was very realistic with me. I had 325cc’c in my pre implant C cup breasts so I was then a 36DD when I saw him. I wanted a little bigger and another lift. I got 555cc Mentor Siltex silicone implants and another lift. I healed quickly, he took wonderful care of me and the surgery center was simply amazing to me (I’ve had a lot of surgeries, recovered quickly and went on with my life) and it was one of the best aftercare experiences I’ve had. He warned me before hand that these were heavy implants and I would eventually start to sag again because of the weight. I was young and didn’t listen... I’ve never had issues or pain or lumps in my breasts so I figured I’d be one of those who never had an issue and would just have them forever even tho I knew they weren’t a permanent thing. I’ve loved them up until last year. I found a lump in my breast that was causing pain. This lump was growing fast and HURT. Had a biopsy and it came back as b9. Had it taken out in August 2017 because it was painful. So glad I had that nagging feeling to take it out as the benign lump had pre-cancer inside of it. VERY rare phenomenon I’m told. The general surgeon who took out my lump was shocked by this pathology. This lumpectomy apparently set off a slow firestorm in my rt breast. Fast forward to this year in March. I had been having pain in my breast and pretty awful chest pains right in my sternum which I thought were from working out? Even after stopping the workouts and using heat and on and on nothing helped. I was due for my screening mammo since I have to have them every year now along with an ultrasound because I have very dense breasts and had the pre cancer last year. Mammo/US showed I have swollen axillary nodes on the left. They don’t see a reason for the severe pain on my rt. I also have some lumps here and there that weren’t there b4. The lumps are sitting right on my implants. They can’t find those, but they see that my nodes are growing and are twice the size they should be. So I go for a diagnostic mammo and another US. They don’t show anything more than what the first showed. So they then send me for a breast MRI since I have worsening pain in my rt breast and severe chest pains. So the MRI finds that a few very small areas of enhancement on the left that are too small to really know what they are yet, coincidental lesion on my sternum that is too small to be causing anything I’m told, and they “think” my left implant is ruptured and my nodes are full of silicone. I have three large nodes on the left and at that time I didn’t feel them. They wanted me to go in for a special implant breast mri. This is where they can see if there is silicone outside of my implant. They also do another ultrasound on this day and see that my nodes have grown another 50%, or 3+cm now, in two weeks. They can’t tell anything different from this MRI. 7k in the toilet now from this useless MRI.... Now the nodes are symptomatic, as is my left breast now. Frequently very achy and now my arm is achy a lot and driving any long length of time is painful. Sucks because I can’t take anti inflammatories due to stomach issues. Turns out my rt side nodes are enlarged as well but we don’t know why yet. They still can’t find an imaging reason for my rt side pain. Rt Implant looks fine in all imaging. This is where after they’ve bounced me around all over to different imaging modalities with no answers and no hope to ease my pain, I scheduled to see dr Waldman to see if he could just explant me and clean me out and do a small reduction since I’m at high risk for BC now. Until this point, I was so upset and very sad that I could not live my life due to such bad chest pain and breast pain. I have a farm and my husband and I are travelers. I feared I wouldn’t be able to do anything anymore. Dr Waldman immediately took charge of me and said he didn’t like how I’d been passed around and given no answers after so many tests. He right away, texted a specialist breast surgeon friend of his while I was sitting there, telling her I needed help ASAP, and could she squeeze me in. He listened, and hugged me and said we’d get to the bottom of it. He didn’t want to do a surgery until he could be reasonably assured that I didn’t have cancer lurking in there somewhere and make it a waste. 5 minutes within leaving his office he called me and said the breast surgeon was going to call that day. He has been so wonderful and kind to me. So I drive to Whole Foods about 15 minutes away to get some groceries and the new Breast Center calls me telling me they’ve already requested all of my imaging and testing be Fed Ex’d and it will be there Monday and could I come in Thursday (April 19) so they have some time to go over my films etc. Basically, this Onco surgeon said she doesn’t understand the confusion of the previous drs because my implant is VERY ruptured, my nodes are FULL of silicone and most of what is going on is due to scar tissue build up from the lumpectomy I had that set off inflammation, reaction to free silicone (there’s no ‘real evidence’ silicone causes this, only anecdotal evidence) , and inflammation. Not to mention, that my breasts are very large (36F/G ) and weigh a lot, combined with a lot of inflammation and that causes a lot of pain. She was wonderful, obviously brilliant, and made me feel important and cared for. She recommended immediate explant. She said she hoped I’d opt to not have implants anymore because now I am a high risk and implants make breast imaging very difficult in the best of situations, but I also have very dense breast tissue making it much more difficult. They couldn’t even see my lump on mammo last year that was 2cm+ because of my dense tissue. They had to find it on ultrasound. So I have an appt with Dr Waldman Wednesday for Im guessing a surgery plan, payment, and scheduling. My insurance website says they’ll pay for explant when there’s a rupture so hopefully they’ll pay for that and I’ll pay for a small reduction at the same time. Now because I’ve previously had two breast surgeries, I may not be able to save sensation in my areola/nipple. Honestly, at this point, I just want the pain to end. I drove a lot the last two days for appts and to get my son to the airport 90 minutes away and when I got home yesterday both of my armpits and left arm were on fire from the swollen nodes and my rt breast was slightly swollen and so painful I didn’t even want to move. I’m lucky that my primary dr who has also been wonderful believes my pain and gives me meds but it took half of the day to control the pain yesterday. This has really impacted my life. I’m a quilter and a farmer and I can’t do either of those right now. The Onco breast surgeon said we’ll evaluate my nodes again after surgery because messing with nodes is a whole other ballpark she said. Very painful and there can be long lasting side effects. Right now, I feel like I have a lime in my left armpit and I’m not sure I can go my whole life feeling that along with the aching. We’ll see how they are after surgery and decide then she said. There are a couple morals to this story. One- be your own advocate! Drs seem to always say if your breast hurts, that’s good because cancer doesn’t hurt. That’s BS. If I had left that painful pre cancerous lump in there who knows what would have happened. The ladies at breastcancer . Org did their own poll and 30-35% of women who had invasive breast cancer presented with pain and they were poopoo’d for awhile with drs saying that BC doesn’t hurt so it’s probably nothing. 2nd- a good dr/surgeon on your side is priceless and can make a world of difference, and 3rd- I wish that I had just been happy with myself to begin with. Would have saved me a lot of pain and money lol. We need to love ourselves more! I know this is a long review but Dr Waldman really stepped up and the breast surgeon I saw said she was so glad he sent me to her and she’s going to be my new breast dr for my every six month MRI’s and US. Between her and Dr Waldman I feel like I’m in awesome hands. I would recommend anyone looking for any cosmetic surgery to see Dr Waldman. My breasts are heavily tattooed but you can barely see the scars, I got excellent results, and he is just an awesome person.
Dr. Waldman is an excellent surgeon with the best bedside manner I have ever experienced. He's a little hard to "read" at first, but once you get to know him, he's a peach! His office staff is wonderful (love Anna) as is the surgical staff at St. Joe's hospital. My experience there on the day of my surgery was very comforting! I would have NO hesitation returning to his office for future procedures. I trust him completely!
As others have stated, there are many factors to consider when getting a breast reduction. A small change in your height should not impact your chances of having surgery approved by an insurance carrier. Having said that, it is always good to follow up with your surgeon if you have any concerns.
Without an exam, it is hard to say for sure. However, there is an area fat in the cheeks that can be contoured or reduced. In my experience, direct excision is a better technique for this than liposuction. My advice would be to locate a board certified plastic surgeon who performs buccal fat pad excision and schedule a consultation.
Any swelling that you have that you think may be abnormal should be evaluated by your surgeon. Having said that, depending on the volume removed and areas treated, in my experience it is very normal to still have swelling 1 month after liposuction. Of course the amount varies based on your level of activity and compliance with compression.
In my opinion, breast implants should be used if you want larger breasts. The idea of an implant combined with a breast reduction does not make much sense. Also, the size of implant should be determined by your measurements and soft tissue characteristics. Often and implant that is too small can look just as bad as an implant that is too big.
Without an exam this is a hard question to answer. Sizing implants for patients can be challenging. My approach is to evaluate the breast measurements, chest wall anatomy, and skin quality when determining implant size and plane of dissection. Your surgeon should be able to explain why a he or she recommends a specific implant and dissection plane so that you can understand what factors are being considered.
