Happy Girl With Updated Face And Chin - Cincinnati, OH

I’ve been a patient of Dr M for more than 5 years. I get filler and botox and we’ve discussed an advanced lift and chin implant for about 2 years now. I am younger looking anyway – I work out 5 days a week, eat healthy, almost never drink and take good care of myself. I’m 47 years old, 5’4 and 115lbs. The filler and botox have certainly helped me stay younger looking in my face, but as I’ve continued to age I wanted to clean up my jaw line a bit and get rid of the sagging skin under my weaker chin and jaw line. I didn’t receive much support from family or friends or my fiancée, as they all felt I looked great, but I felt there was room for improvement. Dr M was incredibly patient with me as I went back and forth about the procedures – making a decision to move forward then changing my mind…..but he was supportive and told me when I was ready we would do it. I elected to have the procedures done on Dec 17th, 2015 and I had 19 days off work to recover. I did have plans for Christmas with my fiancée’s family on the 24th/25th, so I wasn’t sure how I would look but moved forward non the less. I was very nervous, and tried to stay busy - made a huge pot of delicious chicken vegetable soup the morning of (my procedure was at 11am) and tried not to think about what was about to happen. Dr M was happy to see me and helped me feel comfortable, but the whole time I was questioning my decision – even looking in the bathroom mirror at the office, while I washed my face – preparing for the surgery, thinking, “What am I doing??? I don’t look that bad……”

Anyway, I just kind of went through the motions got settled into the chair for surgery….. I was awake the whole time (I liked that) and just kind of let go and accepted that regardless of all of these thoughts of doubt – I was sticking with my decision. I didn’t experience much pain and I trusted Dr M to do an excellent job, as I had many conversations with him, so he knew exactly what I wanted – what my expectations were – what my concerns or fears were and he reassured me that it would all be OK. And it was. I was fine during surgery, my recovery was easy and I felt good the day of and the day after……I even took a shower the day after and felt that I looked – pretty J. I did stay on the pain meds for that week and just tried not to overdo it. I looked just fine for Christmas and incredibly enough, no one even noticed that I had just had surgery…. I was able to cover up my ears with my hair and the steroids helped out a lot with the swelling….Dr M did give me another pack of steroids and that continued to aid me in my recovery. I did ease back into my daily routine, but by two weeks I was working out and I think by 3 weeks I even played golf one weekend as it was unusually warm…..

I’m thrilled with my results! My chin was a great improvement – gave me definition and balance in my face that I needed. And my jowls are gone (they were fairly minimal anyway, but they’re now gone) and my face is again more defined and I do not look in the mirror and think to myself how “old” I’m getting anymore. I look in the mirror and feel good and I’m able to wear turtle neck sweaters now without being self-conscious of my neck! And I’m not self-conscious anymore at all when it comes to profile, which I must say before the surgery I found myself trying to hold my head at a certain angle if I thought someone could see or was looking at me from the side – again because of that awful extra skin under my chin…. No more for me! Before the surgery people would tell me that I looked like I was in my early 40’s at most….and now after the surgery I’ve had ”honest!” friends say that if they didn’t know how old I was that they’d guess me no more than 35! I’m very glad I went through with it and I’m now able to reassure my friends for when their ready – not to be fearful, not to fret….because they will be happy with the results in having Dr M as their surgeon.

Thank you Dr M and your whole staff for caring for me through this aging process and keeping me looking my very best! I am a lucky girl J