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BOTCHED Brow Lift + Very Visible Scarring
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BOTCHED Brow Lift + Very Visible Scarring
Hi everyone!
I just want to share my nightmare experience with a lateral brow lift with Dr Jeffrey Abboud at Abboud Plastic Surgery Centre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
My entire life I have had a pretty droopy left brow due to ptosis/lazy eye that bothered me aesthetically especially when I put on my makeup. I got tired of having to shave off half of my brow to match my other brow and as I got older I noticed the droopyness getting worse. As a result, I sought out a brow lift on my left brow to get that corrected.
In 2024 , I began researching brow lift procedures and came across the three common ones being endoscopic, direct and a lateral/temporal lift. I decided to go with a lateral lift because given my extremely thick hair, I believed with a good surgical scar, I could hide it well.
I decided to do my surgery here in Canada because of horror stories I heard about travelling abroad and that’s when I met Dr Abboud. My first consultation with him went pretty well so there were no issues there. We settled for a surgery date and that was it.
In December 2024, I had my surgery and things looked quite normal? I was optimistic about my surgery results. I had my sutures removed quite early, around 5 days post op because I had to travel (red flag number 1) but other than that I expected a bit of hair loss and a red scar. Now weirdly enough immediately after my surgery I did not actually observe a lifted effect which I chalked it up to swelling. I didn’t also get any aftercare instructions besides the usual don’t do strenuous activities and not to wash that area but things such as hairstyle care and being wary of adding tension to the incision I did not hear or receive but I followed these alone based on my own research.
That’s when the horror story begins. Not even a month after my procedure I noticed my scar widen and I lost a chunk of hair. Now at the time, I thought this was normal but as months went by and my scar started widening more and more I was completely perplexed. Not only did my brow not even lift a bit but I was left with this huge scar that basically was impossible to cover with my hair.
I texted Dr Abboud about this and he told me he would perform a scar revision free of charge and I lost hair due to tension? I was pretty depressed over the situation and just held out hope this would be repaired in a year's time and relied on bangs and wigs to get me through the year.
So we waited a year and I did my revision in January 2026 and the same occurrence happened again not even a week after my scar was removed. The weirdest thing was despite seeing a clearly widened scar, the nurse who removed my incisions informed me that it was healing nicely but when I compared it to other surgeries post incision removal I knew there was something wrong.
A few months pass and a continuous widened scar develops and that’s when I confront Dr Abboud again. He informed me to my surprise and complete shock that he did not use deep sutures for my revision because and I quote “There is no significant deep tissue to place deep stitches along the incision line in the scalp” which is ABSOLUTELY false. This made sense as to why my scar keeps/kept widening because my skin was stitched up superficially. When I further confronted him about that he informed me that’s how he usually did it and he never yielded other results otherwise which I felt was pretty dismissive. He offered to do another revision which I declined and asked for a refund which he did offer me (pros of not travelling abroad I guess?)
This situation and my scar has devastated me and depressed me for almost 2 years of my life. I am very young and my hair is very integral to me and my identity. I was always bullied for my thick curly hair growing up and I only recently got to a sweet spot with it where I learnt to express myself through my hair and all the beautiful hairstyles I used to do. Everyday I am in mourning and grief. I sleep crying about my situation and wake up crying about it too. I used to be such an outgoing, cheery person but I just want to spend my time indoors all the time. I know I could easily hide the scar with other hairstyles but if anyone with the same hair type knows and understands that there’s only so many hairstyles you can do on a casual day and this bald patch just nullified half of those. And this is besides all the money I spent on scar cream, silicon strips, red light therapy etc over the past years.
The saddest part about all this is after consulting with other surgeons about my situation…I didn’t necessarily need a brow lift to begin with. They suggested that I should’ve done a ptosis repair to deal with the source of the problem so now I am left with a scar with nothing to show.
I really just wanted to write this to share my experience and really encourage good research before going under the knife no matter how “less invasive” you think it is because no amount of brow drooping is worth what I am feeling and dealing with now.
On the bright side I am seeking doctors to help with my scar and maybe at that point I can give a more positive update in the future when that time comes.
I just want to share my nightmare experience with a lateral brow lift with Dr Jeffrey Abboud at Abboud Plastic Surgery Centre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
My entire life I have had a pretty droopy left brow due to ptosis/lazy eye that bothered me aesthetically especially when I put on my makeup. I got tired of having to shave off half of my brow to match my other brow and as I got older I noticed the droopyness getting worse. As a result, I sought out a brow lift on my left brow to get that corrected.
In 2024 , I began researching brow lift procedures and came across the three common ones being endoscopic, direct and a lateral/temporal lift. I decided to go with a lateral lift because given my extremely thick hair, I believed with a good surgical scar, I could hide it well.
I decided to do my surgery here in Canada because of horror stories I heard about travelling abroad and that’s when I met Dr Abboud. My first consultation with him went pretty well so there were no issues there. We settled for a surgery date and that was it.
In December 2024, I had my surgery and things looked quite normal? I was optimistic about my surgery results. I had my sutures removed quite early, around 5 days post op because I had to travel (red flag number 1) but other than that I expected a bit of hair loss and a red scar. Now weirdly enough immediately after my surgery I did not actually observe a lifted effect which I chalked it up to swelling. I didn’t also get any aftercare instructions besides the usual don’t do strenuous activities and not to wash that area but things such as hairstyle care and being wary of adding tension to the incision I did not hear or receive but I followed these alone based on my own research.
That’s when the horror story begins. Not even a month after my procedure I noticed my scar widen and I lost a chunk of hair. Now at the time, I thought this was normal but as months went by and my scar started widening more and more I was completely perplexed. Not only did my brow not even lift a bit but I was left with this huge scar that basically was impossible to cover with my hair.
I texted Dr Abboud about this and he told me he would perform a scar revision free of charge and I lost hair due to tension? I was pretty depressed over the situation and just held out hope this would be repaired in a year's time and relied on bangs and wigs to get me through the year.
So we waited a year and I did my revision in January 2026 and the same occurrence happened again not even a week after my scar was removed. The weirdest thing was despite seeing a clearly widened scar, the nurse who removed my incisions informed me that it was healing nicely but when I compared it to other surgeries post incision removal I knew there was something wrong.
A few months pass and a continuous widened scar develops and that’s when I confront Dr Abboud again. He informed me to my surprise and complete shock that he did not use deep sutures for my revision because and I quote “There is no significant deep tissue to place deep stitches along the incision line in the scalp” which is ABSOLUTELY false. This made sense as to why my scar keeps/kept widening because my skin was stitched up superficially. When I further confronted him about that he informed me that’s how he usually did it and he never yielded other results otherwise which I felt was pretty dismissive. He offered to do another revision which I declined and asked for a refund which he did offer me (pros of not travelling abroad I guess?)
This situation and my scar has devastated me and depressed me for almost 2 years of my life. I am very young and my hair is very integral to me and my identity. I was always bullied for my thick curly hair growing up and I only recently got to a sweet spot with it where I learnt to express myself through my hair and all the beautiful hairstyles I used to do. Everyday I am in mourning and grief. I sleep crying about my situation and wake up crying about it too. I used to be such an outgoing, cheery person but I just want to spend my time indoors all the time. I know I could easily hide the scar with other hairstyles but if anyone with the same hair type knows and understands that there’s only so many hairstyles you can do on a casual day and this bald patch just nullified half of those. And this is besides all the money I spent on scar cream, silicon strips, red light therapy etc over the past years.
The saddest part about all this is after consulting with other surgeons about my situation…I didn’t necessarily need a brow lift to begin with. They suggested that I should’ve done a ptosis repair to deal with the source of the problem so now I am left with a scar with nothing to show.
I really just wanted to write this to share my experience and really encourage good research before going under the knife no matter how “less invasive” you think it is because no amount of brow drooping is worth what I am feeling and dealing with now.
On the bright side I am seeking doctors to help with my scar and maybe at that point I can give a more positive update in the future when that time comes.
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