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Devestating results by Taban

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Botched in Beverly Hills by Taban

eye369May 8, 2022
Completely botched after retraction correction by Taban. My eyes are now very sunken, I have decompressed closed corners and look horrible. I travelled from the Netherlands to LA and ended up completely botched.

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Mehryar (Ray) Taban, MD, FACS

Mehryar (Ray) Taban, MD, FACS

Oculoplastic Surgeon, Board Certified in Ophthalmology

4.9 | 371 Reviews
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Replies (47)

eye369
May 16, 2022
He offered to do a skingraft but I dont have any trust in him. Also there is one case who had skingraft with horrible results. I look nothing like my former self as my eyes are so much samller, the outer corners are blunted, my eyes are disorted and pulled done and I look horrible. The biggest mistake of my life. I was misled by the pics that he shows on his instagram. He uses also a pic of mine, 3 months after the surgery. Because of the swelling and the alloderm graft it looks good. Once the swelling goes down and the alloderm graft gets absorbed by the body resulting in horrible results.
About 1
January 2, 2023
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. 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.
eyesore
January 18, 2023
Me as well. I regret my surgery every second of every day.
unrecognizable
January 20, 2023
Even when your sleeping. It’s a Constant 24/7 agonizing, torturous, never ending Purgatory HELL. No escaping….NEVER…….EVER
eye369
May 16, 2022
TRE0033
July 23, 2022
I just read your experience and it sounds like I wrote this post as this is what happened to me too. My eyes are shorted, beady, very small and two different shapes. This guy does not have a clue what he is doing and what makes it really bad is, he doesn't give a damn about you or me and what he had done to us. He strolls in like he is your best friend on a mission to help you and after he ruins your face (and your life) he just causally dismisses you and moves on. What happened to the Hippocratic Oath, "Doctor do no harm".....not with this guy. Please heed this warning!
eyesore
January 14, 2023
TRE0O33, You sound like me, I say that, they took an oath to do no harm. I look 1000 times worse from the aggressive procedures by another Beverly Hills ocular surgeon. Same attitude once things go wrong. My eyes are sunken in now, my once beautiful eyes distorted and deformed looking from an overly aggressive lower blepharoplasty , and other procedures. BH surgeons are too aggressive and we fell for it because of social media.
Thriving60832
September 10, 2023
I am considering a revision from a BH oculoplastic surgeon. Could you DM me with your surgeon and experience? I’m from IL.
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Canines and Coffee
September 20, 2023
Message me. I was botched too
eye369
July 18, 2024
Im so sorry this also happened to you. He gives everybody the same trademark, short beady blunted eyes. Its heartbreaking, so many people are in a depression because of the botched suegery by him. He makes a lot of marketing with before after pictures very shortly after surgery. Those pics are not representative and final results are not visble yet. I look like a freak because of taban.
TRE0033
July 23, 2022
Regarding Dr.Taban's response...you always say you don't remember any of us, but we sure remember you and stop with that line, we are seeking perfection. No, not perfection but when you promise us improvement and we end up looking worse and botched, that falls on you and NOT US!
unrecognizable
January 14, 2023
How did he know that she got herself in trouble by going to another doctor in the 1st place, yet states he doesn’t know her or if she is a real patient??
eyesore
January 14, 2023
Exactly. No one undergoes surgery to look worse. They are the experts, they do these procedures all day long and know the expected outcome. They are pushing lower blepharoplasty with fat repositioning on everyone. It is a terrible procedure that causes contour changes to our mid face due to the tear trough ligament getting severed to make room for the repositioned fat that most of us did not need removing, ruining our lower lids. I can’t blame him, I used another “expert”. Now I am traumatized over my results.
Drtimothymillerbotched
December 27, 2024
Perfect! Yes! I currently check his social medias and if anyone comments they want more info from taban, I DM them and warn them and send them to the reviews he hides and the reddits!
About 1
January 1, 2023
totally botched by Dr. Mehryar Taban ,I had an aggressive LL bleph ocular surgeon removed all my fat along with the orbital muscle roll under my lashes and gave me a cantoplexy which made my lower eyes droop
eyesore
January 14, 2023
All my fat was removed by another top expert in BH, my eyes look sunken in, shape change, rounded canthus. Biggest mistake of my life.
Phenomenal2903
September 7, 2023
Yeah he literally stripped everything from under my lower lash, I look skeletonised.
UPDATED FROM eye369
3 years post

Devastating Results by Taban

eye369July 18, 2024

I had retraction correction with Taban a few years ago. I had my consult via skype which lasted 10 minutes and he told me he can help me.

I have devastating results, my corners are severely rounded/blunted and I have severe retraction. For the retraction he performed a Soof lift and used an alloderm graft. The Soof lift completely changed my face, my cheeks touch my eyes when I laugh. The alloderm graft gets absorbed by the body, so there is no support for the lower lids. I looked much better before I went to Taban, my corners looked completely fine and were never touched. He also performed an orbital decompression which decompressed my corners and I never needed that. I only had some slight retraction and he persuaded me that he can help me. I regret going to him and would not advise him.

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eye369
July 19, 2024
@ Taban - I contacted your office several times and even had a follow up consult with you, so im surprised that you say that you dont know me. You even use my pictures without my consent on your website. These pics were taken shortly after the surgery so the results were not final, the graft is completey absorbed and when the swelling went down, you can see how I look now.
Judith N. 78
August 27, 2024
Alloderm fat also presents huge ethical concerns that should be addressed.
eye369
August 28, 2024
Yes fully agree, Taban uses alloderm graft because it is much easier for him. He should have used a hard palate graft. I hope people dont get fooled by the pics on his website. My pics are also there, 3 months after surgery and the pics I posted here are the final results.
Exciting197204
September 20, 2024
I'm so sorry this happened to you, you still have pretty eyes and I have seen many successful revisions of this type of problem but I don't think Taban has the skill set, I've seen too many bad reviews. I was going to have my surgery with him but then I saw what he did to that boy on YouTube with the cosmetic decompression and now I've seen all the reviews and comments on here and I will definitely go elsewhere. Thanks for warning us
Judith N. 78
September 25, 2024
I second that: Thanks for the warning!
Exciting197204
September 25, 2024
right? And then he says the same thing to all these poor people how he doesn't know who they are. And this poor lady is being blamed by him for having her original surgery go wrong! Why did he even operate on her if he didn't think he could improve it? I would steer well clear just based off his awful responses
eye369
September 26, 2024
I’m glad my review helped you, he is a nightmare. I would never let him touch my eyes again, because he has definately not the skills. All the procedures het did on me failed, exactly like the guy on Youtube. There are great drs out there, I hope you find a good one..but for Taban run away.
Calm498170
December 6, 2024
may I know who is the boy in the youtube you said that he had procedure with him and went bad? because I could not find it.

I really want to do orbital decompression but after reading these reviews, I am reconsidering it
eye369
December 8, 2024
See your dm
Exciting197204
December 20, 2024
it's a guy called Frank Tufano, he took down his review because he probably made a deal to get a refund but you can see his eyes on his social media
TRE0033
October 6, 2024
I have the same disastrous results from this guy as well. When I look back I can't believe I trusted this incompetent to do the three very risky procedures he did on me and the result is horrendous!!!! I was once very pretty but Dr. Taban ruined my eyes and face!! Heed this warning people or you will be a victim too!!
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