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Nice & follow up care good, but will let photos speak for themselves

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Bruh…

asong7
$21,000
He’s nice and the follow up care is good however as far as the actual results go…. I’m going to just let the photos speak for themselves. Yeah… that plus the price makes me want to run into on coming traffic sometimes if I think about it too hard but oh well.

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Donald B. Yoo, MD, FACS

Donald B. Yoo, MD, FACS

Board Certified Facial Plastic Surgeon

4.5 | 179 Reviews
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Replies (7)

September 10, 2022
Have things improved for you at all?
September 16, 2022
Not really. I've been looking for another doctor to do the revision.
September 21, 2022
I have a similar result. What did Dr. Yoo say about your issues???
December 13, 2022
He tried to deny that it looked bad stating that I had previously said I wanted a “dramatic change”. He said the protruding tip was the “ski slope” I was looking for…. Yeah right. But after a lot of probing he finally admitted to not doing what I had asked for (narrowing the bridge) and that he only used cartilage to build up the nose and to make it “appear” narrower. He never really addressed why my tip was basically protruding out of my skin but I’m assuming he tried to build it up super tall to take attention away from my wide bridge but my skin can’t handle the tension.

He told me he’d do a revision fit free and sent me to the finance woman who basically told me to pay like $9k (?i think i forgot the exact price) more to fix it because i needed to pay for the surgery center. After that I was like yeah… no and never came back.
May 12, 2023
How is your nose now since surgery?
November 25, 2022
I'm sorry you were not satisfied and thank you for your update. He's definitely overhyped and not worth it.
December 13, 2022
Definitely not worth it. If I had known about his multiple lawsuits and did a further deep dive into the reviews I never would’ve went with him.
UPDATED FROM asong7
2 years post

Forgot to add some things

asong7
More info in the comments in terms of my thoughts abt Yoo BUT main reason for the update is that I’ve completely lost my sense of smell from this surgery. I’ve been to a specialist & he said it’s because Yoo built up my nose too high and the glands? that regulate smell are being pinched. Something along those lines I honestly can’t remember the explanation that well bc the appointment was a year ago but that’s the gist. My smell is maybe like 15% better but still not all the way there.

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January 7, 2024
Omg wow! Thank you for sharing, this review is enough to stirred me away from him no matter how beautiful some of his posts are on IG!
UPDATED FROM asong7
4 years post

I got a revision!

asong7
I'm only 1 month post op but the results are already night and day. I ended up getting my nose fixed in Turkey and the new doctor did an amazing job but it also made me realize how terrible of a job Donald Yoo did. The Turkish doctor even noted that Yoo made my nose look masculine, did absolutely NOTHING to my wide nasal bones, and just slapped two HUGE pieces of cartilage on my nose..... nothing else....for over $21k......

The new doctor was completely shocked to open my nose and see the ginormous piece of cartilage used in my primary rhinoplasty, he stated that it was completely unnecessary. He was actually confused how Yoo was even able to harvest so much rib. I will attach pics of my nose before/after so you can see the difference!

After my Turkish revision I'm finally able to smell again and my rhinitis isn't bad anymore. Before, I was prescribed daily steroid nasal rinses by my ENT for all the nasal irritation but after my revision it's gone! Goes to show how damaging Yoo's work "allegedly" is......

I originally said Yoo was nice but 3 years later I take it back. What would've been nice if for him not to "allegedly" lie to my face and say that he could do the osteotomy. It would've been nice for him not to "allegedly" say he did the osteotomy when he didn't. It would've been nice for him not to "allegedly" sit in my face and say an osteotomy "couldn't be done" and "would obstruct my breathing" when he literally just doesn't do that procedure... "allegedly". It would be nice for him to GIVE MY MONEY BACK!

I originally tried to say something nice about him because I was afraid of any potential retaliation but now that I see how f---ked up he made my nose, I'm not holding back. Thank God my new surgeon was able to fix my nose and it looks so so so so good. I'm so happy now. I just want to put this all behind me but I needed to update y'all first bc nobody should be subjected to this.

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