Yadro Ducic, MD

I used to be insecure about my nose. It was large, wide, bulbous, with an indentation on the columella and a bump on the bridge. After I began to fixate on it more, I decided I wanted a rhinoplasty and began searching for a plastic surgeon.

My search led me to Dr. Ducic in Texas. He intently listened to what bothered me and set realistic expectations. Aside from being extremely kind, he mentioned things during my consult that nobody else did. For example, he took my height (I am a 5'9" female) into consideration for goal results.

I am 5 months post-op and extremely happy with my new nose. It is no longer the first thing I notice when I look in the mirror and my face looks more balanced overall. I wish I decided to get my nose "done" sooner.

Dr. Ducic, thank you so much for giving me the nose I wish I was born with! I feel beautiful and confident for the first time in a long time.

Dr Ducic and his team of nurses and office staff did an amazing job from pre to post op on my face and neck. I suffered from over 90% blockage in my nose also and had a slight bump from a deviated septum. After undergoing treatment from Dr Ducic, I can now breathe better & sleep better and my nose has a smooth and very natural appearance.
After losing over 50 lbs of weight by changing my lifestyle, I had skin laxity in my jaw line, neck & forehead. I’m amazed that there is very little to no scarring visible on my face! I have a smooth jawline & neck free of the loose skin “wobble” and wrinkles and it’s so natural looking! Dr Ducic reversed at least 15 years of aging and wrinkles from my overall appearance! The team at his office were attentive and professional at all times with pre op and post op follow up. I truly believe that Dr Ducic is one of the most talented and one of the very best in his profession. I am very pleased with my results and highly recommend him for your facial plastic surgery needs!

Dr. Ducic is amazing. My nose was broken in October of 2012 in a car accident and I had a septoplasty with osteotomy and grafts in the following January. This was my first broken bone and my first surgery of any kind. The surgery was not easy. The accident had left my nose in a mess. One side collapsed the day before my surgery and the other collapsed while I was on the table. I just wanted my "original" nose back... and that's exactly what I got. It is perfect and no one can tell it was ever broken at all. Dr. Ducic is kind and communicative. I knew exactly what to expect. No surprises. I would recommend him to everyone. (By the way, he's a good man, too. He donated his time to a free surgery to fix an injured dog's broken jaw. Excellent, gifted surgeon with a good heart.)

Before the procedure I wasn't happy with the shape of my nose, between genetics and high school football my nose wasn't a great asset. Dr.Ducic not only improved the shape but made sure it complimented the rest of my face. I should have done this years ago! And now my sister is looking forward to hers.

Dr. Ducic did an amazing job on my facelift. I was referred by a friend whom he had done a facelift on as well. I would highly recommend him for this surgery. He is honest and easy to talk to. Feels more like a friend than someone talking down to you. He is world renowned. When I came for my consult there was a patient that had flown in from Kansas City and one from Oklahoma. I am so happy we have such an amazing surgeon here. Recommend him highly.

Have been getting botox for some time. Dr. Ducic goes out of his way to make sure I look as natural as possible. He does not believe in a stiff appearance. He has to be one of the most caring doctors I have ever seen. That is probably why I have to wait each time I go to see him. I would highly recommend him!

All started when I was referred to him after my previous doctor dropped out of Gov insurance HMO, I saw Ducic and he told me I would need Botox to help make my brows even and so every 3 months I jot injections but it wouldn’t help. Dr Ducic said he needed to do surgery to repair the drooping brow . So I agreed to let him fix it . Well at the time of surgery I didn’t get to talk to him and after surgery I didn’t see him .. I came out of surgery with 32 staples and 4 screws in my head with my hair matted with so much blood. After 2 weeks I went to his office to get staples and screws out ,still didn’t see Ducic only (nurse?).. she put the scope down my nose to see if everything was ok. 1 week later my head was infection and I called and they asked to see pictures so I sent them then I was asked to come to office so I went right away. Got there and still no Dr Ducic , I was told to put ointment on it and I told them maybe I should have antibiotics and so they called some . Make a long story short. I didn’t see Dr.Ducic until 6 months later and only if I released and paid 550.00 for Botox for maintenance???. And he wouldn’t talk about the surgery at all. He wanted to send me for biopsy of my thyroid and send me to his voice therapist. Something I didn’t need… I can’t even go back to him again. I still have nerve pain and hard ridges in my forehead. Never Never again.

After two surgeries in the span of over a year by Dr. Yadranko Ducic, I sit here with two aggressive lines of rock hard scare tissue. One scar tissue line on the inside of my mouth...and one scar tissue line visibly exposed on the OUTSIDE of my lip line, both on my bottom lip. My lips are visibly deformed now. And to make matter worse at the same time I had him "fix" a small scar on my upper lip (very minimal surgery ), and he even managed to make that far worse.

Its more than likely that I was basically a guinea pig for Dr. Ducic, and he probably has very limited to no experience performing surgery on lips (other than maybe lip injections). I wish I would have known that before hand. Could have avoided this nightmare.



Twice he told me that the scare tissue would go down in close to a years time. Thats the reason why I waited so long to write this review, to be clear that there were no more excuses he could make.



Overall the nurses were nice, and even Dr. Ducic himself is a nice guy. But at the time of my first surgery with Ducic in 2017, the system they had up there in the office he works was bad in regards to communication. It was even a hassle for me to pay THEM. And to make matters worse yet again, they ended up "accidentally" charging me double. After some time I was able to get a partial refund for what I was overcharged, but come on...



Overall TERRIBLE experience, especially in regards to the surgeries. He has made this humiliating issue for for me far worse.



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FIRST SURGERY:

In mid 2017 I went to Dr. Ducic to help with an issue that stemmed from a rare artery issue that I had in my cheek and lips that left the right part of my bottom lip with hypopigmentation(color loss). I went to Dr. Ducic to see if here was any way to mask or get rid of the hypopigmentation, even if I couldn't hide it completely. So I asked him if a skin graft, excision surgery, lip reduction, etc were options. He said my best bet would be lip reduction/advancement flap surgery and he showed me how he would do it and that I could expect around a 70% improvement in hiding the hypopigmentation. So thats what I ended up going with. From there it was down hill...



I never had elective surgery before but I knew I could save some money with local anesthesia, so I asked for that. But he kind of blew me off both times I asked so I didn't sweat it. But after the first surgery I would later find out that was a big mistake. Having this surgery at the hospital would end up costing me an ADDITIONAL $1400. Absolutely ridiculous.



So the morning of the first surgery I am laying in the prep room in the hospital talking to the nurses and staff. And I hear Dr. Ducic come in behind the curtain talking to who I believe was his resident/attending? physician, then he leaves and the resident comes in and talks to me. I ask him and the nurses if I will be able to see and talk to Dr. Ducic before the surgery and they said absolutely.



So I get rolled into the operating room..then I wake up and the surgery was done. I soon notice that I had a long line of scare tissue behind my lips but thats it. No change in the rest of my lip at all. No reduction of the lip AT ALL. No hiding of the hypopigmented part of my bottom lip in the least(the entire point of the surgery). Thats when it hit me that I had already had the surgery and it WAS NOT THE SURGERY HE DISCRIBED HE WOULD DO. And not only that, I DID NOT SEE DR DUCIC BEFORE OR AFTER MY SURGERY. I have never heard of this happening. Who doesn't get to speak to their surgeon before an elected surgery? I was gutted on multiple fronts. Wrong surgery, and I didn't even get to consult with the Dr. performing surgery on me. He was already gone by the time I had woken up. Then after seeing him about two week later I could tell he knew he messed up but he didn't want to admit it. There was literally no visible change in my lips, and the scar tissue felt like it was even worse the longer away from the surgery. He kept telling me the scar tissue would go down but it never did. And the small gash/scar revision on my upper mid lips was FAR worse than what it was before. Him screwing up such a simple surgery let me know that he probably never performed surgery on lips before. He also said that he would perform a another surgery (again, he knew he messed up but I guess for legal purposes he never came out and admitted it). He said I would have to wait for the healing to be complete before the next surgery.



So at this point I am out of thousands of dollars and my lips are worse than what they were when I first saw him. But I was desperate and didn't have the money to see anyone else so I agreed to the second surgery. But I would have to wait to heal up.





SECOND SURGERY:

Fast forward to the beginning of 2019. This time he "volunteered" to do it under local anesthesia like it was his idea from the beginning. And we go through another game plan of what he was going to do. And like he always does, unprompted, he tells me how important it is not to have the suture line outside the lip line lip line. Which would later turn out to be ironic. (NOTE: before the first surgery, the way he described "scarring" made it seem like it was purely visual and NOT actual rock hard scar tissue). So the night of the surgery, he brings me to the room and shoots my lip up with numbing. I am waiting in the room, and don't mind waiting since I expect him to take his time with his other patients like I expected to take his time with me. So I am not complaining about waiting over an hour after being numbed. The problem was the numbing was starting to wear off. He finally comes in and I let him know, but he kind of brushes me off. I have a high pain tolerance so I don't push the issue.



So after about 25-30 minutes the surgery is over. During the middle of the surgery the pain started to get pretty intense. Again I have a high pain tolerance but damn. I think he should have numbed me again since the wait was so long. But after the surgery I immediately notice that the suture line was ENTIRELY on the OUTSIDE of my lip line, visually exposed. And to make matters worse some of the sutures were already opening. He said that it wasn't on the outside of my lip line and that after the swelling goes down it would be on the inside of my mouth. Fast forward to over 10 months months after the second surgery and NOTHING he said was accurate. The scar tissue that was on the outside of my lip line was even harder and more aggressive than the line the scar tissue on the inside of my bottom lip during the first surgery. AND AFTER THE SECOND SURGERY ONCE AGAIN..NO REDUCTION AT ALL.



My lips are now visibly mangled and deformed. My lips now feel absolutely disgusting and uncomfortable with the rock hard scar tissue everywhere.



Absolute butcher job.



So now I sit here with two massive lines of scare tissue inside my mouth and now one on the outside of my lip line on my bottom lips. And the center of my middle lip looks deformed as well. I went to Dr. Ducic to help with an issue that has been humiliating for me for a long time, but he has made things far far worse on so many different levels.



I have never sued anyone in my life, but as I sit here out of thousands of dollars and deformed lips thanks to Dr. Ducic its hard for me to justify not going through with it. I don't think he meant to do this. But if he didn't know what he was doing he should have just said he didn't have experience in this area. I had to learn the hard way, that just because a Dr. might be good in some areas does not mean they are good in ALL areas. I hope everyone that reads this understands this as well when choosing their Drs.



All this experience was Dr. Ducic has done for me is greatly add onto the embarrassment and humiliation I feel everyday about my lips. So now I have to spend thousands find someone to help me fix what Dr. Ducic has done to me.



Im sure Dr. Ducic is good at other things, but if you need a dr to help you with an issue regarding your lips, STAY AWAY from Dr. Ducic...



-RW

Years ago I had rhinoplasty preformed abroad and the outcome of this was a deviated septum, nasal portal collapse and a pollybeak deformity.I recently had my first appointment with Dr. Ducic and his nurse practitioner to discuss these issues ( both had lovely bed side manner). The office was very busy and my appointment was very short , however ,Dr.Ducic was still able to listen to all my concerns, inspect my nose ,as well as give me some wonderful advice and education about my condition. Dr .Ducic knew right away what issues he saw with my nose and how he would treat it. A few weeks later and I now am scheduled for surgery! Im so thrilled to finally be able to breath again , I look forward to continuing my cosmetic care with Dr.Ducic. I will post a before and after photo once the final outcome is achieved.

I was rear-ended in October of 2012. The air bag did not deploy and my face hit the steering wheel. The impact broke my sunglasses and my nose. I was 32 years old and had never had a broken bone or surgery of any kind (unless you count the removal of four wisdom teeth at age 26 under anesthesia). I was unemployed at the time, had no health insurance, and I was terrified. My lawyer managed to help me out with letters of promise, as my case was definitely a "sure thing." (It really was; that wasn't sarcasm.) I did receive the maximum policy limit, which covered everything (legal fees and surgery), but it took 11 months to get the money in-hand. Eleven months! Thank you, U.S. legal system. (Now, that was sarcasm.) I could have grown an entire human being from scratch in my womb in a shorter amount of time! Unfortunately, I was in pain and really needed surgery ASAP. I had to pay for some of the appointments with the surgeon and the allergist out-of-pocket, but the CT clinic and the anesthesiologist accepted the lawyer's letter of promise and Dr. Ducic's office worked with me financially, as well. Baylor Hospital made me pay a minimum of $8,000 (which came right out of my personal savings account and that really hurt at the time), but they accepted the letter of promise for the balance.

Dr. Ducic is amazing. He told me at my consultation that my nose, indeed, was broken... which I had guessed, but the swelling remained so bad that no X-Ray could have confirmed it for quite some time. I had a CT and my allergist told me it "was a go." There was a surgical cancellation at Dr. Ducic's office, so I was worked in rather quickly. (Less time to panic.)

The day prior to the surgery, I was given a nasty, rough, excruciating MRSA test (swab) and the nurse at Baylor really didn't seem to care that the surgery was on my nose. After she pulled the swab out, I began to feel both inner sides of my left nostril touching each other. (This was the worst part of my experience.) When I went in for surgery, my husband was told the nostril had already collapsed. (I knew exactly when it happened after I was informed. I know it was the rough MRSA swab.) Unexpectedly, during my surgery, my right nostril fell as well. I had enough septum for grafts, though. I was previously told I would need a graft, anyway, as my nose had to be re-broken for correction. Dr. Ducic comes with his fantastic reputation for a reason--he solved the problem and worked quickly. The collapse barely added an extra 30 minutes to the procedure.

The surgery was easy--the pain medicine was definitely needed in the recovery, though. I suffered some pretty intense nausea in the beginning, but was up and around the very next day. I did have to wear splints and a hard, plastic Denver cast for about 3 weeks. Three weeks with splints and a "nose cone" is a lot of time. The splints actually seemed to keep my airway pretty open. I could breathe as soon as the swelling went down a little. I live in a small town, so my appearance sparked stares and wonder with the locals. (I won't lie: I actually found that part a little amusing and started people-watching while they watched me as I shopped. It was definitely rude, but I'm a writer... As the criticism wasn't constructive, I was pretty good at ignoring it. It was easier knowing that the cast was just a temporary necessity. In the end, I was very glad Dr. Ducic left it on that long, as I felt I needed the protection. I read later that you never want the cast or bandages removed too soon.)

My splints and cast were removed (no pain--just a little discomfort, because those splints are BIG) just in time for a successful job interview. You better believe I grabbed the health insurance as soon as possible! ;-)

My nose is nearly four years old, now. It is a tiny bit smaller than my original nose, but I'm the only one who notices that. I absolutely love it. It's even better than my original nose--yet the details are so slight that only I can tell.