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I decided to travel to TJ Mexico to have my...

I decided to travel to TJ Mexico to have my implants replaced as one had gone hard. The size and shape of my current implants were great, but being they were over 30 years old, the surgeon I went to said I should replace both as chances of my good implant going hard was pretty good. I took his advice and said okay. I told him I didn't want them any bigger than they currently were but he said he had to make them slightly bigger due to the size of the pocket. I said okay but not too much bigger. He had two sizes written down and I said the smaller of the two would be acceptable, I would have like to keep the same size as I currently had, but if I had to go larger, then I'd take the smaller of the two suggested, but absolutely not to the larger. Well surgery was done almost six hours later than it should have been, so I was left starving, and by the time I was awake everyone was gone, and I was flying out the next morning. When I opened the package I was given, with the serial number of the implants, they were 105 cc's larger than my original ones, so this surgeon went far larger than the larger ones I said absolutely NOT to. I was completely devastated. I wrote to him, and he said once the swelling goes down I will love them. Well the swelling went down, and not only do I not love these huge massive ugly breasts, but one of them is hard as a rock (I look like a stripper, and no offense to strippers, but this is not the look I was going for, I'm 5'1 and 120 pounds so they look massive). When I wrote to tell him one was hard as a rock, all he said was that I need a breast life to get the other one situated higher on my chest to even them out. How does that help a breast that is hard as a rock, and no I don't want a breast lift, I don't need one. It was such a mistake going to this surgeon. There is nothing I can do now except save up to have them redone by a reputable surgeon. Please when going to TJ find a surgeon that will listen to you and promise to agree to your terms, not do what they want to, and then not fix the mess they've made, not that I'd trust him to touch me again. Good luck all, remember price isn't always the important factor.

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Plastic Surgeon
Calle Erasmo Castellanos, Zona Rio Tijuana, Baja California
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He was a nice man, but went against my wishes and now I'll have to save up to have my surgery redone. My experience with Dr. Gutierrez was anything but positive, the nightmares were from start to finish, and now I’m left with having to wait several years to save up enough money to have surgery to correct the mess I’m left with. I’ll not get into anything other than the surgery itself thou. I thought I’d save a little money and go to TJ for surgery, and this is now costing me money to have the surgery redone, and much more now, because of what he did, reconstructive surgery. All of which I can’t afford, but will have to, and will take years to save up. I wanted to save a few dollars, wow what a mistake. One of my implants went hard after 25 years, so it needed to be replaced. I was told by Dr. Gutierrez that I should have them both replaced as the other could go hard as well, so I accepted his suggestion and agreed to have both done. My current implants were nice, small and very natural looking, and this was the look I wanted to keep. When I saw my chart and the two sizes the Doctor recommended I said no, one was 50 cc’s larger than my current ones the other 65 cc larger, both were far larger than I wanted. Dr. G said he needed to do them larger since the pocket had stretched from my original implants, this didn’t sense or make me happy, but again, I trusted the doctor, so I said okay to the smaller of the two but said absolutely NO for the larger one. And in his defence, he didn’t put the larger one in, but went ahead and put a much, much, much larger set in. My new implants were 105 cc’s larger than my original ones. I told him I wanted to remain a full B, now I’m a small D. I have these massive grapefruit / watermelons on my chest, which everyone noticed as being a boob job. I’m so embarrassed and ashamed. I look like a stripper. He kept saying, “the swelling will go down” give it three months, not only did the “swelling” not go down, but the right one he said I had to replace is hard as a rock. I went to him to fix a hard as a rock left implant, and he not only put in huge grapefruits that sit stick out on my chest, but have now a much larger hard as a rock grapefruit. The only thing he had to say when I sent him the pictures he requested was that I needed a breast lift to make the one that isn’t hard lifted up to below my chin like the hard one. Had this been done in Canada, there would be something I could do, but since I went to TJ and this doctor, nothing can be done. I trusted this doctor, he betrayed my trust, and now it’s me that will pay. Should you be thinking of doing surgery in TJ, save a little more money and have it done by a reputable surgeon you can trust. It’s funny, when I was waiting to be picked up in the San Diego airport something in my gut said turn around and go home, don’t do this. I sure wish I would have listened. What a mistake this was, what a horrible, horrible mistake.