Ruptured Implants, Looking for Explantation Specialist and It's Not Dr. Kolb- Consultation Only- Atlanta, GA

Wow. Sorry you had such a bad experience. I have heard so much positive experiences people have said about her. Just her knowledge that breast implant illness is possible seeing that most of the medical professionals deny that it even exist. I do hope you so find someone you are happy with bit for most important a skilled and trusting Dr. who will do his or her job correctly and do a capsule removal and drains too.

So glad to hear your experience with Dr Kolb. I had a consultation with her months ago and ended up cancelling because of the cost and she was out of network with my insurance. I ended up scheduling my surgery for this Thursday with Dr Alexander in Atlanta. I too have one ruptured silicone implant that is 32 years old. Never again will I put anything into my body like this! I can let you know how it goes if you are interested. I'm just praying for the best!

Thanks for sharing your consultation experience on RealSelf!

Wow! So surprised to hear that Dr. Kolb and her office was unorganized. I was thinking if I had the money. That I would have loved to have gone to her for my explant. Thanks! For letting us know. I'm in Los Angeles and am looking for a great PS to do an explant with a possible lift. I definiatly want to have capsule removed and have drains. If the PS says that they don't do one or both of these things, then I'll move on to find another PS. I also want to inquire about getting fat grafting. I'm 53 and am noticing my eye lids are a bit droopy. So if the price is right I'll have my eyes done as well. This way I'll come out with something that will look good after I heal.

Please read the other reviews that actually have to do with the care and treatment of serious silicone chemical and biotoxicity at Plastikos. The paperwork was emailed to the patient but as sometimes happens, did not get to her inbox. The spider was there because the office was cleaned on Friday night and the patient seen on Monday. The magazines and papers do not bother the other patients as they realize that we are one of the busiest clinics in America taking care of women with very serious life threatening diseases and we provide them with many articles as resources which evidently offended this patient. We do frequent patient surveys, and other than prolonged wait times due to the nature of the illnesses that we treat that often take longer to develop a treatment plan, we have never had complaints about the magazines, the toys which are for sale, the papers, or any other issue this patient has brought up. So, I would have to conclude that this is an isolated case of a disgruntled patient. I have examined every patient in the exact same manner for 30 years and this is the first complaint I have ever received and she is not being truthful when she said that I lifted her shirt over her face as I just undo the bra and lift the shirt up over the breasts. I truly believe that this patient had forces working against her that did not want her to get well as she will find it difficult to find other surgeons that understand her disease if she is ill from silicone or from mold biotoxins. However, this review may very well keep the patients that do not need our form of specialized care from wasting our time that could be better spent helping the women that really need our help. If I am so irresponsible in my diagnosis of patients, how do so many recover from these very serious, potentially life-threatening illnesses? If we are so terrible, why are we are so busy and have so many patients come to us out of network after other surgeons fail to do the explantation correctly (and exacerbate the illness), fail to give antifungals, immune and endocrine support, and detoxification procedures? This is actually the only negative review of our care on Real Self that I could locate and we very few negative reviews elsewhere on the internet on any site. I personally found this patient very difficult to take care of due to a hostile attitude during the entire consultation and a hyper critical manner that I have actually only encountered one other time in 30 years of practice and that was in the father of a patient rather than the patient herself.