Horrible Cheek Lift/Midface Lift by Mark E Richards

Thx for your comment, it's a year and I'm disfigured and in pain for life. All doctors I spoke to said this. Pls do not trust whatever you hear before any surgery! I was loed by a doctor for money!

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Thx for your comments. Hope never happens to anyone else but I saw 2 other people posted negative reviews for Mark Richards.

Hi Irishgirl, as a person who has had two procedures, eyes, mid-face lift, I would advise against doing anything. Most surgeons are not skilled enough for facial surgery. People forget right hand or left hand dominance. For this reason one side of my face looks different to the other, noticeably. Plastic surgery is a con, the doctors lie to your face, are obsequious and charming until they get your money. Afterwards when you need them the most, they dump you and tell you that you look fine, when everyone else is wondering what happened. I was very beautiful, now I look 15 years older than I am. I have lived 10 years with EXTREME regret. Love yourself for who you are. Peace.

That's true, they lie to get the money. May I ask you when you got midface lift and if it changed in any good way? Thx

Stay away from This scam business. You'll regret. Richards ruined many lives, I got so many of his patients contacting me about nerve damage after implant, neck deformity, nose....

I know but I wish it was that easy. Unfortunately what people don't know including me before this, is tgat laws protecting doctors not patients and lawyers only take death cases! Its been a long time and pain tightness disfigurement here to stay.

Have you confronted the doctor in his office? Have you mailed a written letter of complaint to his office detailing your pain and damage with the time lines, including any and all second opinions of your case? I would not go quietly if you have been physically damaged, and/ or aesthetically damaged. The power of the internet, social media, blogs, twitters, YouTube, yahoo, etc puts the patient at an historically unrivaled advantage. It will be difficult, but try to take back some of your power. He owes you monetary damages at the very least.cwhat did you mean when you referenced that " you did not ask for this surgery" ????

Thx for your comment. I did tell him and he's just rude and said not my problem. Doctors are protected not patients. I have written proof and I can't do anything. His other patients who contacted me, couldn't sue him being deformed, permanent nerve damage... This is not doctor patient matter, it's a scam. Ask any other person with botched surgery and see if they could do anything. Talked to many lawyers and they told me how cosmetic surgery doctors are very away with everything even murder. For bad Reviews, they can pay 100 bucks to hide them from browsers or leave 10 positive reviews for each negative one so they won't show

I honestly think your cheeks look great. I must be missing something. I can't find my reply on here that offered for you to look at my before and after pictures on my profile (please check it out) as I had a very different experience with this doctor, as have several of my friends going to him now, with great results for cheek lifts, breasts, facelifts. Not to be controversial only helpful and respectful, but have you considered looking into body dysmorphia as a reason for your dissatisfaction? People with that are never satisfied with results of any surgery and often have unrealistic expectations. Not saying that you do, but it may be worth considering. Please take this as a constructive suggestion. Women would love to have your cheeks. Actresses and models especially. Like I said, you look great. Body dysmorphia would be a great topic for this platform and I've heard it is not uncommon.

I am absolutely not a fake review, just because you don't agree with my opinion and experience with the same Dr. I posted pictures of myself which are open for anyone to see on my profile, because I love my result. Period. I would never refer my friends or anyone else to someone I didn't think was excellent. Cosmetic surgery is a big deal and something my friends and I in our 40's are just now exploring. I offered an opinion and advice to you since you seem to think yours looks terrible, which I still don't understand (because you look great!). I get notifications when you update your review and I did find your language unusual when you posted last week claiming that lawyers have told you that Drs. literally murder people and get away with it. I find that extreme and disturbing. As a patient, I have every right to reply to your review and to write my own reviews of any Dr. that I have been to.

What an insulting, passive aggressive comment "suggestion". I am so sorry for her experience. If you are not, then just keep it to yourself. She doesn't need you to add to her suffering.

Yours or a surgeon’s opinion of what a patient should want to look like are irrelevant. It’s not your or their face. There’s no way a nose caving in can be justified, even by a planted comment pretending to be reasonable.

I didn't ask for a Midface lift. Unfortunately I got scammed. I knew myself I had big cheeks myself so never asked for this but was lied to by this guy and his assistant.

What you misunderstood about surgeries if you ever had one, patients hear different things before and after their surgery and my case is a medical negligence or worse. The only thing mark Richards took seriously was collecting my hard earned money!

Ok, so when you had your consultation what procedure did you ask the Dr. for?

Yes more details please

My review was removed by Realself after writing about what happened so I'm not gonna write so much here but you can look at this posting also done by Mark Richards https://www.realself.com/question/lower-eyelid-still-drooping-after-months-post-op I can post links of other websites

No point with this question other than to make her feel worse. She already did it so why ask why she did? I hope that you can find some resolution, sending good wishes :)

Thx

I merely wanted to know what procedure she asked and paid for. She said that she didn't ask for this surgery, so what surgery did she ask for? I feel for her that she doesn't like her results but it is important to note that this is what happens when a patient gets surgery when it is not needed in the first place. A bad result. And she is right that Dr,s will take your money even if you don't need it.

Look at this link and you see I'm not the only one. I can't post links ffom ither website here but this is typical for this doctor https://www.realself.com/review/richards-bethesda-incompetent-refuses-acknowledge-mistakes

I ask for a cheek lift also known as mini face-lift because I had very small amount of excess skin on the side of my face and all my communications with Mark Richards shows it, no where is said Subperiosteal Midface lift.

Because doctors are not honest about the risk and recovery. In my case i was lied to and scammed. This doctor has a reputation of it as i keep getting connected by his patients who were told the same lies or asked for anotyer thing and got something else. Hard to find trustworthy ppl so be careful.

Thx, that's true. Like being disfigured, losing a big money and wasting lots of time and being in pain for a year wasn't enough! But i know doctors and their assistants some times put nasty comments too so i was prepared for the worst.

At a young age, i had sever edema and then i when iy was gone my skin was streyched, I asked in writing for skin removal and pulled my skin in front of him multiple times, they said this surgery gonna do a lot for me and they even gave me a quote for neck lift at a very young age 32 with perfect neck and said this is the only way you surgeries done (lie) i said no way i need a my neck cut when it's as good as a baby neck, so i went for cheek lift for skin removal without neck lift. After surgery i asked him give me my op report as sth is not right. He wrote patient asked for volume in upper cheek! (lie). I was told recovery is short a week to 3 weeks. After surgery they said 1 month then 6 month then a year. I asked other doctors in Realself and everyone says this surgery is not at all for skin tightening or has anything to do with skin and it takes a year to heal and is very intensive and old school! Lies and scam

Did you suffer from lost sensation in nippless and did he do liposuction without your permission?

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Why sometimes reviews that are not fake disappear?

That's a great question.