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Worst experience I’ve had

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Worst experience I’ve had

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I chose to follow through and get lower eye bag treatment and seeing 3 different surgeons for consults. I believed I had chosen the best doctor based on reviews on real self. All were positive at the time. As I look now there are more negative reviews that echo my exact experiences and thoughts. Nice guy but reckless and poor decision making abilities. Social media and marketing make it seem like he is an expert when in fact my results are awful and way worse than when I began. His before and after photos are not impressive and I wish I would have been more diligent and not chosen him because I liked him. I went through almost a year of depression due to my under eye bags looking worse than before, puffy, uneven, and even hollowing where he injected the enzyme to deplete filler I had many years prior to surgery. This is still uneven and looks awful. After my complications I went and saw 4 other Beverly Hills occuplastic surgeons and only one would do surgery. The others would not touch the mess because I assume they didn’t feel they could fix what he did. The others said I had to wait and see what happens...it was too complicated to operate. I have waited over two years and still have a poor result that I have dealt with by not looking in the mirror and dealing with depression on and off. Worst mistake I made was to see this doctor. Head the warnings. We are all human and make mistakes but he was wreck less with my face and I pay the price everyday. I regret my decision to have this simple procedure done by him every glance i take in the mirror. I’m sure he has long forgot me but I think of him everyday. Regretfully.

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Christopher I. Zoumalan, MD, FACS

Christopher I. Zoumalan, MD, FACS

Oculoplastic Surgeon, Board Certified in Ophthalmology

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Replies (3)

November 25, 2018
So sorry you aren’t happy with your results. I visited this dr for a consultation - I also thought he would be an expert but was sadly disappointed in the consultation which cost a lot of money for 10 minutes of his suggesting Botox. Ugh. There are several other very good oculoplastic surgeons - maybe someone else can help you?
December 21, 2018
Thank you for posting, however do you mind posting photos of before and after? And what did you have performed prior to the surgery? You were vague on the previous procedure. Filler? What type? Did it not do anything? Do you have before and after photos of the filler?
December 30, 2018
Before and after pics would help.