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Got Pinocchio Nose from Dr. Dhir
I had my nose done by Dr. Dhir 2 years ago. I am still not happy about it and it won't get better without intervention.
My original nose wasn't that bad to begin with. Dr. Dhir made a Pinocchio nose, where the tip is not balanced and is too far from the face. He chopped off my small hump, pushed the tip up and made it narrower (not even symmetrical on both sides). Chop chop work, that he does on everyone without customizing it.
What made me leave this review is the psychological manipulation. For 6 months after surgery he tried to talk me into liking the nose and to convince me that it was a good nose.
Only after getting comments from random people, that I have funny Pinocchio nose and constant questions from friends and relatives if I asked for this nose, DrD finally admitted that he was NOT proud of his work himself.
At this point he offered solutions: another surgery or take out the extra cartilage that he placed in the tip.
(Why would you place and extra anything in already a large nose!?! WITHOUT deprojecting it?!!)
Who wants another surgery? Extra cost, extra time, recovery is horrible: swollen oily face for months.
So we agreed on taking out the cartilage right there in the office. He did that, I was happy at that point. He also mentioned, that if my columella would be hanging, he would be able to "tuck it in" or do the deprojection, if that wasn't enough (which he should have done originally if he was good at what he does).
Surprisingly, he didn't even prescribe me antibiotics. I had to request for them. As far as I know, they take your wisdom tooth out and already want you to take some antibiotics to avoid any possibility of infection. Here he took part of my nose out in the office chair and didn't think it was necessary. Oh well...
So I left feeling secure, that at the end it still will be what I wanted. Well, I was mistaken.
After a while, my nose dropped, columella is hanging. There was a weird spot on my left nostril, which didn't go away with swelling (turned out to be collapsed nostril).
I went back to Dr. Dhir. Here is another point. At any consultation with him he always has 1-2 assistants in the room with him (the only doc out of all I had consult with). I bet he was really good in psychology class. Having that, you, a patient, is always outnumbered. It is not easy to get your point across in this kind of situation, when 2-3 other people are telling you that it is not what you see and pretend they don't understand what it is that you don't like. Add gaslighting, words twisting, denying, subject changing and etc. And Dr. Dhir comes out feeling like a winner.
Before I went back to Dr. Dhir the last time, I got second opinion from a very reputable plastic surgeon (almost next door), who instantly said, that yes, my nose was very far from the face and needed to be deprojected, left nostril had a small collapse, columella was hanging and nose wasn't straight, which would require a cartilage from my rib to fix it. I am looking at 20k revision.
After I presented second opinion to Dr. Dhir, he finally understood what it was that I didn't like and offered and open revision rhinoplasty (which I was very clear from the beginning, I didn't want to have).
Funny, I remembered, that I was going into surgery sick. And of course told Dr. Dhir about it, he said "a little under the weather" is not a reason to cancel or postpone the surgery. Yet after the surgery, he said he "tried" to make my nose straight as much as he could, but it was swollen, because I was sick.
After all the agony, stress and back and forth with Dr. Dhir, who somewhat refused to take my dissatisfaction valid, until I came back with second opinion, I refused to have revision with him. At this point I would NOT trust this doctor to touch my face again.
This is my personal opinion, and what I got is that he doesn't care for what he does for you, he doesn't take pride in his work, he is not passionate about it. It is just work for him, a chop chop. More chop, more cash.
Also his bedside manners are horrible. He yelled (hard to imagine if you met Dr. Dhir) at the anesthesiologist for not injecting me in the waiting room. And anesthesiologist yelled back "they pass out over there!!" right before my surgery. The sweet understanding doctor is just a mask, pretentious and fake. Don't be fooled by that.
None of my friends that are considering rhinoplasty have asked for his name, his mediocre work is right there on my face.
My original nose wasn't that bad to begin with. Dr. Dhir made a Pinocchio nose, where the tip is not balanced and is too far from the face. He chopped off my small hump, pushed the tip up and made it narrower (not even symmetrical on both sides). Chop chop work, that he does on everyone without customizing it.
What made me leave this review is the psychological manipulation. For 6 months after surgery he tried to talk me into liking the nose and to convince me that it was a good nose.
Only after getting comments from random people, that I have funny Pinocchio nose and constant questions from friends and relatives if I asked for this nose, DrD finally admitted that he was NOT proud of his work himself.
At this point he offered solutions: another surgery or take out the extra cartilage that he placed in the tip.
(Why would you place and extra anything in already a large nose!?! WITHOUT deprojecting it?!!)
Who wants another surgery? Extra cost, extra time, recovery is horrible: swollen oily face for months.
So we agreed on taking out the cartilage right there in the office. He did that, I was happy at that point. He also mentioned, that if my columella would be hanging, he would be able to "tuck it in" or do the deprojection, if that wasn't enough (which he should have done originally if he was good at what he does).
Surprisingly, he didn't even prescribe me antibiotics. I had to request for them. As far as I know, they take your wisdom tooth out and already want you to take some antibiotics to avoid any possibility of infection. Here he took part of my nose out in the office chair and didn't think it was necessary. Oh well...
So I left feeling secure, that at the end it still will be what I wanted. Well, I was mistaken.
After a while, my nose dropped, columella is hanging. There was a weird spot on my left nostril, which didn't go away with swelling (turned out to be collapsed nostril).
I went back to Dr. Dhir. Here is another point. At any consultation with him he always has 1-2 assistants in the room with him (the only doc out of all I had consult with). I bet he was really good in psychology class. Having that, you, a patient, is always outnumbered. It is not easy to get your point across in this kind of situation, when 2-3 other people are telling you that it is not what you see and pretend they don't understand what it is that you don't like. Add gaslighting, words twisting, denying, subject changing and etc. And Dr. Dhir comes out feeling like a winner.
Before I went back to Dr. Dhir the last time, I got second opinion from a very reputable plastic surgeon (almost next door), who instantly said, that yes, my nose was very far from the face and needed to be deprojected, left nostril had a small collapse, columella was hanging and nose wasn't straight, which would require a cartilage from my rib to fix it. I am looking at 20k revision.
After I presented second opinion to Dr. Dhir, he finally understood what it was that I didn't like and offered and open revision rhinoplasty (which I was very clear from the beginning, I didn't want to have).
Funny, I remembered, that I was going into surgery sick. And of course told Dr. Dhir about it, he said "a little under the weather" is not a reason to cancel or postpone the surgery. Yet after the surgery, he said he "tried" to make my nose straight as much as he could, but it was swollen, because I was sick.
After all the agony, stress and back and forth with Dr. Dhir, who somewhat refused to take my dissatisfaction valid, until I came back with second opinion, I refused to have revision with him. At this point I would NOT trust this doctor to touch my face again.
This is my personal opinion, and what I got is that he doesn't care for what he does for you, he doesn't take pride in his work, he is not passionate about it. It is just work for him, a chop chop. More chop, more cash.
Also his bedside manners are horrible. He yelled (hard to imagine if you met Dr. Dhir) at the anesthesiologist for not injecting me in the waiting room. And anesthesiologist yelled back "they pass out over there!!" right before my surgery. The sweet understanding doctor is just a mask, pretentious and fake. Don't be fooled by that.
None of my friends that are considering rhinoplasty have asked for his name, his mediocre work is right there on my face.
Provider Review
Board Certified Facial Plastic Surgeon
433 N. Camden Dr. , Beverly Hills, California