Removed filler and now I'm happy!

I have anxiety, and I would recommend Dr. Kundaria to my sisters, mother, and friends in a heart beat. He was attentive to my personal beauty ideals and goals, and is one of the kindest doctors you will ever meet. I felt that I could trust him from the start of the session; these days nurses and doctors are pumping us full with botox and filler for the financial gains instead of helping us look better. The more they pump in us, the more money they make. I've learned this hard lesson with nurses performing my botox and allowing a non plastic surgeon to place filler. (I am done with filler now)

I want to share my anxiety-ridden roller coaster of a story to help others who feel nervous.

I had too much filler placed under my eyes and lips right before corona shuttered the non-essential businesses. To be honest, I felt disfigured for two months, so I was desperate to get my old face back. I went back to the original doctor to ask to get some of it removed and he told me "you looked so ugly before, you'll go back to looking sleepy again." His nurse had photoshopped the before picture to make my eye bag look severely deep, and photoshopped the after picture to hide the Tindall effect and ridges.

To me, when I looked in the mirror I saw that I was wearing a mask, ready to make my debut as an alien in Star Trek.

My coworkers and friends looked at me in weird ways and my best friend reassured me that I was right, I didn't get my features enhanced with the filler but it had in fact detracted from the uniqueness of my face.

If you read reviews on real self like I did, it will lead you to believe that you're stuck with the filler, or that hyaluronidase will melt your face off.

During my consultation with Dr. Kundaria, he provided me with the pros and cons of the filler disolver in an easily digestible format. I knew my anxiety was through the roof, but having a kind and gentle doctor lead me to be brave.

I had to pep myself up and take the risk of getting it removed and it potentially melting my face off because that was 100% better than looking like a Star Trek alien. Atleast if it melted my face off, I was in the hands of a very nice facial plastic surgeon who would fix me.

He numbed the area and then performed the procedure. It's painful- but the pain is worth the beauty! If I were calmer, I dont think it would have hurt as much... the cupids bow of the lip is the worse in my opinion. I've read some doctors use a lidocaine solution which could be less painful.

To my surprise the filler was 85% removed immediately!! Yay!! It was a little swollen from the mixture and it bruised slightly. Within 72 hours the swelling and bruising had subsided and I loved the results. It didnt eat my face away thank goodness.

I had some very very very minor wrinkling from my skin being stretched out from the filler- so I drank collagen and used my skinmedica hyaluronic acid and ceramide products. The wrinkling is 99% gone. I don't pay attention to it. I did go back in for another dissolving and need one more since the original filler was placed on different planes of tissue.

I couldn't recommend this office anymore, Jess and Dr. Kundaria are easy going, sweet, and really go out of their way for their patients.

Update with a full face picture. I’m very pleased with the dissolver and botox placed by Dr. Kundaria. I love having my face 98% back to normal! There is just a little bit of filler left but Im going to forget about it, I underwent three dissolver appointments and he recommended that we stop so I wouldn’t waste my money. The last time I could hear the restylane crunch and I massaged it for one hour to help break it up. Yay, my face didn’t melt off!

After hylenex to disolve bad filler with Dr. Kundaria at Nuance in Charlotte.