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Nightmare!

From the very first portion of this process it has been a complete disappointment. My consultation date, I was forgotten about in the waiting room and left for over 3 hours where I got tired of waiting and left. I should have taken that as a warning and stopped seeking out their services, but I thought hey we all make mistakes and maybe this is there's and it will end up ok. The second portion of this adventure is where the surgeon decides to ask for lab work and permission slip signed by a medical professional only two and three days prior to my procedure. If this kind of stuff was needed they should have asked when they had weeks to do so in advance. Additionally I should not have been asked for a medical clearance from my doctor when I had already provided medical records stating I have no conditions and nothing to be concerned about. Yet I was treated as if I was 2 years old and required someone to sign a permission slip for me to go through with this procedure. Additionally she asked for blood work to be completed only 3 days prior to procedure, what doctor's office do you know that is able to fit somebody into their schedule to perform lab work on such a short notice? I voiced my disapproval and obliged anyways. Day of surgery comes, and the nightmare begins. The assisting nurse had difficulty finding a vein to insert the IV. She attempted for an hour to find a vein, where I finally asked is this a requirement? I was told yes, without the IV we could not go forward and that it is needed just in case if they need to reverse something that they've done. So I continue to allow them to search, and finally they found one. I am in the surgery room am just laying down on the table when the surgeon states that she has observed that the IV is no longer in my vain but rather just taped my hand. She proceeds to say "well looks like it's just for show now, it's all for looks." For who? Who's observing? They begin the insertion of the numbing agent and this is painful! Sono Bello does not put you to sleep as it does not administer anesthesia. This surgeon was going so fast and aggressive with the fluid insertion and kept jabbing me in the ribs with the cannula to the point where I am balling in less than 10 minutes on that surgical table. I'm begging her to slow down and to stop being so rough. Instead of being sympathetic and obliging, I am told she is doing her job. That she is not being rough and I am just hypersensitive. And she continues. Over and over I'm jabbed in the ribs and I keep placing my hands on my abdomen trying to grab where the shooting pains are going, and I am soaked in tears when I get yelled at by the surgeon for placing my hands on my abdomen.": Sarah, this is my area! You need to keep your hands off of my area!" I'm crying and I say but it hurts! She replies with she doesn't understand why it's hurting me so much and I couldn't take anymore and I yelled at her " you have horrible bedside manner! I'm sensitive and you are f****** being so aggressive and I'm hurting!" And instead of again being empathetic and slowing down she argues with me. I was pumped with 7 litres of lidocaine, and I made one final attempt to have a say in the procedure that was going to be completed on my body, and stated that I did not want my rib cage area liposuction ( waist) because I did not have a lot of fat in that area and didn't feel that I needed it and if she could just not do that area. I was told I had to but they do not perform stomach liposuction without the waist area being done. That I did not have a choice in the matter and that aesthetically I would look funny afterwards if they didn't and it would leave me with a "shelf". After the procedure was completed I'm handed a compression garment to put on that I stuff myself into as I did not know how much swelling was going to occur because I had not been properly advised on anything. I told the surgeon that I did not know what to expect after surgery then I was not told. And she argued with me and said that I was told that that's what my pre-op meeting was all about. My response was, no I wasn't told anything if you recall that pre-op meeting was all about you and your concern of completing the liposuction and tummy tuck all in one session. That meeting was all about you and your concern and I got no counseling for myself at all. I have no idea what to expect afterwards. So I go home with a garment that after taking it off and washing up that night I wasn't able to get it back on. It was too small. So I called the clinic to complain about the surgeons demeanor, the way she physically handled me, the argumentative responses that she gave me with everything and to request my refund as I did not go through with the thigh liposuction because I didn't think I would be able to handle it ,and to request a compression garment as I had nothing to put on and these garments are critical after surgery. This has been a complete nightmare my body is swollen up three to four times it's size that I was when I started this procedure. I am rock hard I look as if I'm 9 months pregnant and I'm being told that this is normal. I have not been refunded my money for the p thigh liposuction and here's the topper.. she never liposuctioned my waist... The area that I was told I had no say in the matter, that I was prepped for, tortured for and not even advised that this area of my body had not been completed. I only found out coincidentally because I called to complain. Were they planning on even refunding me for that portion of my body that they did not do? I don't know. But this is been a nightmare! And I am so big right now I know that it's not normal, and I just don't know what to do.

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