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Horrible Experience

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I‘m almost 2 years post op and now it’s time to write an honest realistic review about my Face, Neck and Liplift with Dr. Chopra. Immediately after surgery I developed a really big necrosis behind my left ear, the tissue died and turned black.I don’t smoke and I eat extremely healthy, I’m vegan. I don’t understand how this could happened. I had to get multiple hyperbaric chamber oxygen therapies for the necrosis, I spent a couple thousands of dollars for it. Dr. Chopra said in case I will have an ugly scar he will do a scar revision. Unfortunately he didn’t keep his promise. He only offered CO2 laser, which didn’t improve the scar at all. I have a very big ugly deformed scar behind my left ear. The scar behind my right ear is also noticeable, he didn’t place it in the ear fold, instead it is in front of the ear fold. I also have a very ugly noticeable lip lift scar. When I asked the assistant of Dr. Chopra if the sutures from the lip lift will be internal or external she said they will be internal, only because of that I chose a lip lift with Dr. Chopra because I wanted to avoid to have a noticeable scar which is common when the sutures are external, not when they are internal. I got mislead because he closed the lip lift from the outside not inside. I now have a horizontal line and multiple vertical lines. The scar is extremely noticeable, not even make up can cover it. I already had multiple laser treatments and micro needling trying to improve the scar but nothing helped.He also drastically changed my earlobes. I had cute round earlobes that weren’t attached to the side of my face before. They were free hanging. After surgery I got left with huge stretched out earlobes that were attached to my face all of a sudden. I looked like an Elephant. I had to convince him to fix it, he tried but there wasn’t any difference after that. It took me a lot of research to then find a doctor that performed an earlobe reconstruction on me, he detached my earlobes from the side of my face and made them smaller similar to how they were before. I had to spent 4.000$ for this surgery.
When I went for a consultation with Dr.Chopra I showed him how tight I wanted my face. He said in case it won’t be tight enough he will do a revision for free. I‘m only 37, my skin wasn’t very sagging like in other patient, it would have been easy to pull it as tight as I wanted. Unfortunately I still have sagging skin, noticeable nasolabial fold and sagging skin on the corners of my mouth, when I addressed it to Dr. Chopra his answer was you look beautiful. He didn’t keep his word to make it tighter in case it wasn’t tight enough.
Overall I spent 18.000$ for Face, Neck and Lip lift plus 4.000$ for an earlobe reconstruction and several thousands for scar laser treatments and hyperbaric chamber therapy. I still have a very noticeable lip lift scar and big deformed scars behind both ears, because of that I had to get a revision facelift done by another surgeon and spent another 15.000$ to fix my botched face because Dr. Chopra refused to fix the scars and also pull my face tighter, there isn’t much of a difference from before to be honest. I deeply regret choosing Dr. Chopra as my surgeon. I spent a lot of money on him and after I spent 20.000$ to fix what he did. I hope nobody has to go through what I had to go through and take this review seriously.

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Karan Chopra, MD

Karan Chopra, MD

Board Certified Plastic Surgeon

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