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Avoid at ALL Costs
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Avoid at ALL Costs
Please do not go to this doctor. I almost never post google reviews but felt compelled to warn anyone considering putting their eyes (windows to the soul) in the hands of this man to BEWARE. He disfigured my eyes and consequently crushed my soul.
While he is jovial and seems confident don’t be fooled. He ruined my beautiful eyes. All I wanted was a slight refresh. Nothing more.
I have spent over a year and half and tens of thousands to try and simply return to baseline. I went in for a simple lower blepharoplasty and he also suggested a soof lift and a brow pexy. Both of which were absolutely worthless and I’ve been told by various occuplastic surgeons I’ve consulted with since that both are rarely performed anymore because they don’t produce results and aren’t worth the investment. If only a baseline not improved result was my biggest issue. I would be thrilled actually.
Unfortunately my new reality was not even close to baseline.
While I was on the operating table Dr Laukitis took it upon himself to perform an upper blepharoplasty (later stating that he “didn’t charge me for it” - what surgeon would ever say that) without my consent. I DIDN'T WANT AN UPPER BLEPHROPLASTY NOR WAS IT LISTED AS A PROCEDURE FOR WHICH I SIGNED MY CONSENT TO PERFORM.
So he removed skin that I didn’t want removed and “fixed” a scar that wasn’t ever there leaving me with an unsightly scar. Horrid. In reality it had to have been a slip up that he attempted to cover up by the scar nonsense. All of the surgeons (5 of the top in Seattle including his well respected business partner) were puzzled and couldn’t figure out how such a scar could be created and why it would’ve been done under any circumstance.
They all read the surgical report and were the ones to tell me that he had indeed performed skin removal. Wow. The feeling of being taken advantage of while under anesthesia was overwhelmingly violating.
So we have the horrid scar but that wasn’t the end of it. He completely botched the corners of my eyes. They went from lovely normally angled corners to having a rounded and sad, dog like appearance.
He mutalated my natural canthal tilt and I was left with mild scleral show, downturned and webbed corners. Good times. He constantly said it was “immature wounding” whatever that means and that it would likely settle. All of the other surgeons said that it had almost zero chance of settling as gravity pulls down not up. It was botched and that’s the facts.
When I asked him point blank why he fixed a scar that wasn’t previously visible he didn’t remember that he used that excuse and said oh that must be from the entry point for brow pexy. I pulled up the email thread which stated that he had previously said it was a “scar revision” and then he seemed to half remember and claimed that I had had a scar from perhaps a “bug bite!?!”
At this point I remain speechless and have resided to the reality that I will never know what really happened or why.
Consequently I am left with surgically trying to return my eyes back to what they originally were.
Which I thought had little chance of actually doing but through the hands of the best surgeon in Seattle I’m likely as close to baseline as I will ever be and have my eyes back.
I could’ve had a medical malpractice suit and won but instead opted for a full refund - So I was financially compensated but suffered a massive amount of emotional trauma and duress. Like life altering.
Your face is a huge deal. Your eyes might even be a bigger deal. Do not risk having your god given features being destroyed by naively trusting this man.
While he is jovial and seems confident don’t be fooled. He ruined my beautiful eyes. All I wanted was a slight refresh. Nothing more.
I have spent over a year and half and tens of thousands to try and simply return to baseline. I went in for a simple lower blepharoplasty and he also suggested a soof lift and a brow pexy. Both of which were absolutely worthless and I’ve been told by various occuplastic surgeons I’ve consulted with since that both are rarely performed anymore because they don’t produce results and aren’t worth the investment. If only a baseline not improved result was my biggest issue. I would be thrilled actually.
Unfortunately my new reality was not even close to baseline.
While I was on the operating table Dr Laukitis took it upon himself to perform an upper blepharoplasty (later stating that he “didn’t charge me for it” - what surgeon would ever say that) without my consent. I DIDN'T WANT AN UPPER BLEPHROPLASTY NOR WAS IT LISTED AS A PROCEDURE FOR WHICH I SIGNED MY CONSENT TO PERFORM.
So he removed skin that I didn’t want removed and “fixed” a scar that wasn’t ever there leaving me with an unsightly scar. Horrid. In reality it had to have been a slip up that he attempted to cover up by the scar nonsense. All of the surgeons (5 of the top in Seattle including his well respected business partner) were puzzled and couldn’t figure out how such a scar could be created and why it would’ve been done under any circumstance.
They all read the surgical report and were the ones to tell me that he had indeed performed skin removal. Wow. The feeling of being taken advantage of while under anesthesia was overwhelmingly violating.
So we have the horrid scar but that wasn’t the end of it. He completely botched the corners of my eyes. They went from lovely normally angled corners to having a rounded and sad, dog like appearance.
He mutalated my natural canthal tilt and I was left with mild scleral show, downturned and webbed corners. Good times. He constantly said it was “immature wounding” whatever that means and that it would likely settle. All of the other surgeons said that it had almost zero chance of settling as gravity pulls down not up. It was botched and that’s the facts.
When I asked him point blank why he fixed a scar that wasn’t previously visible he didn’t remember that he used that excuse and said oh that must be from the entry point for brow pexy. I pulled up the email thread which stated that he had previously said it was a “scar revision” and then he seemed to half remember and claimed that I had had a scar from perhaps a “bug bite!?!”
At this point I remain speechless and have resided to the reality that I will never know what really happened or why.
Consequently I am left with surgically trying to return my eyes back to what they originally were.
Which I thought had little chance of actually doing but through the hands of the best surgeon in Seattle I’m likely as close to baseline as I will ever be and have my eyes back.
I could’ve had a medical malpractice suit and won but instead opted for a full refund - So I was financially compensated but suffered a massive amount of emotional trauma and duress. Like life altering.
Your face is a huge deal. Your eyes might even be a bigger deal. Do not risk having your god given features being destroyed by naively trusting this man.
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