Unfortunate Mistake

I am regretfully writing this review as a warning to others in hopes that no one goes through what I am currently experiencing. I booked a tear trough filler appointment with Dr. Scott R. Chaiet as it had been several years since a previous treatment with another surgeon. Dr. Chaiet has fabulous bedside manners. He is very polite and charismatic, but his facial aesthetic skills are on the opposite spectrum.

I was told that after my tear trough filler I may need some mid-face filler, which seemed justifiable, but I would have to wait several months due to the pandemic and scheduling and the mess that was 2020. Days and weeks after my tear trough appointment, as my swelling subsided, I couldn’t help but notice how shelf-like my under eye filler was. It was bad, to say the least. It was so prominent that it looked like I had saddle bags instead of smooth, refreshed under eyes. I (wrongly) assumed that he mentioned the mid face filler to address this so I happily went to my next appointment looking for the necessary fix.

After one entire syringe of filler in my tear troughs, I received another full syringe of filler in my mid face. Never have I received so much filler in such a small area and now I see why. Have you ever seen pictures of overfilled celebrities and thought, “whoa, way too much work done!” Yea, I was about two steps away from that. So much so that my own family thought I had a sinus infection. It got to the point where I turned down lights in my home and took down mirrors because I felt so ashamed for choosing the wrong doctor. I literally felt like it was all my fault. I should have done more research, I should have known about each and every filler, I beat myself up for not having all the answers and getting myself into this mess in the first place.

The filler was too heavy and too dense for the areas that he put it in. I am no doctor but a quick Google search confirmed my worst fears as he put the wrong filler in an area that needed a soft filler. Not only that but I had soooo much filler that it started migrating. I expressed these concerns several times to Transformations, begging to get an appointment with Dr. Chiat or anyone at Transformations for that matter. I looked horrible. Horrible to the point where I cried every time I got off another phone call where I was told he would not have an opening until November 2021 (I started called in May 2021). For the life of me I cannot fathom telling an upset client that they have to live with their poor treatment that makes them feel hideous. So a few weeks back I gave up and booked consultations with nearly every plastic surgeon and aesthetic nurse in the Madison area, some even that same day as they couldn’t believe the response from Transformations.

After six consults and every practitioner being utterly shocked at my results, I chose one to start my dissolving journey. I am two appointments in and 4 units of hylenex down, with more to go. The filler is so dense and migrated so much, that we are finding more and more with every appointment. Mind you this dissolving has already cost me $1,300 to dissolve over $1,000 of Dr. Chiats work.

The mental and emotional shock of paying so much money to look worse and then to pay more money to reverse the results is devastating. I could never trust or recommend an establishment that 1) gives such poor aesthetic results and 2) denies timely help for a distraught customer. Please proceed with caution if booking through Transformations, they nearly ruined my mental well being and I can't bear to think they could cause the same harm to someone else.