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POSTED UNDER Breast Lift with Implants REVIEWS

Remove & Replace ruptured silicone implants lollipop breast lift ,Post surgery incision wound care

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I had a ruptured silicone implants (13 yr old...

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I had a ruptured silicone implants (13 yr old implants) removed and replaced silicone implants (Maker MENTOR replaced for FREE IMPLANTS)
Every visit felt like a rushed visit with this Doctor and he told me 1 thing than next visit said he didn't say that .
So I record our visits now secretly. Disappointed !

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Larry S. Nichter, MD, MS, FACS

Larry S. Nichter, MD, MS, FACS

Board Certified Plastic Surgeon

4.9 | 230 Reviews
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June 26, 2014
Holy moly! You spent $20,000 to replace the implants and get a lift? I'm not too far away from Irvine and I spend half that. :( I'm sorry you've had a bad experience so far. What does your PS say about the skin that is pulling at the bottom of your breast?
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July 3, 2014
Dr. Nichter said for me ” to go to the park and hang from the monkey bars and stretch that area out by putting both arms above my head and hang using my weight, feet off the ground and that will move the position of the scar out. “ I told him it hurts I feel a tight pulling when I reach straight up over my head just to clean my bathroom mirrors just from extending arms up. I feel a pinch and a sharp shooting in that area and it feels like I’m restricted to reach out any further without feeling a sharp pull so I don’t reach over my head on left side . I asked him if he could re-attach that area on my bottom end of my breast instead of rib cage and he said he “wishes it was that easy”. I asked him about my brown area not cut even and he said he measured me “20 on both sides and moved up my nipples that were very low. He said he can refer me to a tattoo person to color in the area, but he said I should give it time the brown pigment will return it just takes time. He only admitted to he wishes my left breast was a little bigger, like the right one but he said I am healing fine and there is nothing he can do. I asked him to compensate me and I will go to another surgery, but he said not likely. So, bottom line he doesn’t think any further work he needs to do on me and in a year if I want to have corrective surgery I am on my own, He will refer me to another Plastic Surgeon. And today I just got a letter in the mail from him saying he will not see me any longer based off my opinion I filled out about my experience I had and publicly commented on this website about him. I told him about all this and spoke to his office manger about how one of his staff members made me feel. At that time , he was very appreciative when I brought it to his attention in November 2013 he said its very important to him so he can correct any problem with staff . I still trusted him with my surgery in January but now that I wrote a review on his office , he is terminating me as a client. Is that any way to treat me after all I have been through and paid you for service and office visits up to a year??? I guess I will be seeking a refund for services I paid for and now am not longer going to get .
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July 5, 2014
I'm so sorry that you're going through all of this. It's not right for him to terminate you as a client. I hope that you're able to figure this out. That was a lot of money that you spent, and you should be happy with your results and the care that you receive.
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July 17, 2014
Thank you very much for responding to my post. I had to use Dr. Nichter because he operated out of the hospital my health insurance covered for services. I would of never chose him it was half my insurance and half out of pocket for me to pay. But, since going to him In November 2013 I had problems . He under thr insurance plan but no one in his office deals with insurance billing , so that took 2 months to get straight because they wanted me to pay and ask insurance for reimbursement which that's not how it works. Than he has had 4 different office staff members that left and doesn't work there in the past 6 months I have been going there . And than everytime I would go in there it seemed liked he rushed visit and what I had to say or ask wasn't important , and vaguely addressed.
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July 17, 2014
One of my good friends had a breast reduction covered by insurance. She said it was a horrible experience and the insurance paid $30,000 for the surgery. The doctor and his staff were unprofessional and her results were not great. :-/ It's sad that insurance companies cover docs like that.
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6 months post

Breast surgery WOUND CARE post surgery care.

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Here’s something I should of shared with you that happened to me when caring for my post-surgery incisions. When cleaning wound area DO NOT USE straight HYDROGEN PEROXIDE, You must dilute it 50% WATER 50% Hydrogen peroxide. I was highly medicated with pain medicine after surgery and did not remember to do this and this is the outcome. This was a very serious matter where I had to check into the ER because I could not get in touch with my Dr. on a Saturday evening the last visit I seen him was 3 days prior and he sent me home with Bacitracin ointment and some Q-tips and Gauze & tape to keep it covered, and told me I was ok healing and my next visit will be in 1 month. I knew this wasn’t right or it turned into a serious infection because it wouldn’t stop bleeding (slowly). The only instructions given to me was to clean it in the shower with soap (Dial) and water and spray out the open wound with water while showering. I was prescribed an steroid cream ointment from ER Physician and that is what finally healed me after almost 3 months this incision not healing and closing up.

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6 months post

WOUND CARE POST-OP Surgery

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This was a very stressful time that I had while trying to recover and heal after my surgery. I became depressed from my results and than I didn’t feel the Dr. did a good job and his answers to my questioned changed every week . He told me he did the best that he could considering all the work he had to do, such as clean out ruptured implants and pull my muscles down and cut out tissue that was blue and sent to biopsy and move up my nipples. And remove and replace ruptured silicone implants. I was embarrass to show my breast to my man or my girlfriends who wanted to see how they look. I kept my shirt on at bedtime and never undressed in front of my boyfriend because I was embarrassed my breast looked ugly and gross from having this surgery. I regretted having it and was very unhappy and worried I had to go in again to get correction surgery left breast indent at bottom and is smaller size and nipple points out . It caused me a lot of problems in my relationship when I was suppose to be happy to have a new me or new body part. I had very bad anxiety before my surgery and than to go through so much I was unsure and depressed it didn’t turn out better.

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