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Robert M. Lowen, MD
Board Certified Plastic Surgeon
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hi guys i wanted to add an update.

As many of you know i was essentially botched 3 times.
One by Dr Lacerna, had i not met her i would be in the predicament i am today or with the other surgeons. She essentially liposuctioned 2 liters of fat from my thighs and out it in my buttock. there were bumps and dents everywhere... the skin has adhered to the muscle and my skin has become a complexity different color.
tried to fix it with dr lowen. I was extremely young and this is a buisness, but i don’t believe he has the true expertise as a revision specialist. It just doesn’t make since outing in a non suction vaser to go back and forth in my legs essentially all it did was cause more scar tissue and bumps and more discoloration. i feel he was nice but i was like a guinne pig and he didn’t really know what he was doing. he also over liposuctioned my banana roll and it caused my buttock to completely drop.
I went through deep depression for probably 6 months because of all of this... i also went to many many many many surgery consultations and by this point i realized how brutal the world of plastic surgery really is. so many surgeons they are sales men, and that’s what they do... even if it’s not the best thing for you, they want to take your money. so finding someone genuine after going through botch’s was rather difficult.
I had met with a surgeon in new york, “dr Khan”... i initially was going to go with her as well. she was going to do spot lipo on me and fill some of the dents on my legs and try to fill the crease under my butt. she expressed to me that we are dealing with a very small amount of fat and i understood but wanted to continue to look.
I ended up meeting Dr svehlak in west hollywood. i told him my entire story. we talked for like an hour... i told him all my fears and what i wanted and we set up a game plan i was going to have surgery with him. He was going to do upper back lipo waist lipo, and lower back lipo, and upper stomach lipo. With all the fat he would be able to get he was going to release all the dimples and put fat transfer in them... he would also put fat in my crease that had fallen from botched lipo. he was also going to put 100 cc of fat in a large leg dent the dr lacerna the asian surgeon did to me. and any remaining fat he was going to put in my hips or any other dents! I also go chin lipo and jawline lipo with him as well. when i woke up from surgery he told me he was able to get 1000 CC of fat and he used every single bit of it! i was amazed because dr khan said i had no fat really to work with.
Anyways it’s still very early on. i think he is an excellent surgeon. i’m swollen but i can tell my butt is no longer sitting on my leg. i’m sure i’m a few months i will need a touch up procedure because i am quite picky but he really did such an amazing job and i’m so thankful. i thought i was dumed for life!

Just an example of bad vaser

My skin is destroyed it’s been over a year, I have hemosporadin skin staining from the superficial vaser lipo, causing permanent skin discoloration and dents all over my stomach posterior and inner thigh. It’s so sad. I brightened the pic to show you but it still upsets me daily. I went to dr lowen for revision and came out permanently discolored & worse. I wasn’t discolored before surgery with him.

Update I have gained weight.

These little dents everywhere came from the vaser lipo no suction all over legs, and this is what happens when you lipo the banana rolls. I want everyone to be aware that before plastic surgery I had no dents and no double butt crease. With my revision with dr lowen all of these appeared. I believe what happened is the vaser caused a lot of scar tishue and therefore caused the skin to stick to the underlining tishue. From my studies of lipo, I’m revision cases vaser is very bad. I damaged the skin causing permanent discoloration and scar tishue. Also never ever lipo the banana roll. I will be going to dr misbah khan in New York that specializes in botched lipo. She does the old traditional method but uses a syringe. For the double cut crease she will be putting fat there. I will be standing up. For the dents she will break the fibers holding down the scar tishue and do Micro fat injection. And small transfer to my leg dents.

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