Permanent Damage - Born doesn’t deserve a single star

Born doesn’t deserve a single star. I am still suffering the consequences of his hatchet job with fillers from years ago. I was in my early thirties when I went to see Born for fillers. Based on his reputation, I let him suggest the game plan. In the past, I had only had fillers less than a handful of times over the course of several years from an amazing Dr. in LA who was on a well-known makeover TV series and I mistakenly thought Born was at the same level from a reputation that I came to realize was mostly based on smoke and mirrors. Whereas my LA Dr. was the real deal: ethical, gentle, cautious and conservative, working with me in stages to address minor asymmetry mostly around the nasolabial fold area, Born was the opposite. He greedily and unethically up-sold me on 4 times more filler (if not more than that) than I had ever had in one sitting and possibly all the years previous combined. He also used invasive and unnecessary techniques that no one had used on me before or has since: he froze me with local anesthesia in multiple places, injected me with filler using a technique he called ‘peppering’ somewhere around my jaw/either side of my chin, as well as injected me unevenly on one side to satisfy a theory that my lip would be more supported and less lopsided on that side if he did this. Then he aggressively massaged, and manipulated my skin, pulling with extreme fiction. I was lumpy, bruised and battered after his administrations and when his work ‘healed’, at 32, I was the unhappy owner of a new lumpy, lopsided jawline, as well as jowls. Both of which, I had never had before and although filler is supposed to fade, my defined and taught jawline never returned back to its former state and never has since. I asked for my money back at the time and he offered to have me back in, which I declined, as I realized he had no idea what he was doing. Zero. I didn’t feel safe from his lack of experience and savagery so it was a hard pass on letting him touch me ever again. Born may know how to perform surgery but he has or had no business working with fillers. Further, he had the narcissistic audacity to silence and gaslight me by telling me that I was obsessing over my looks. A plastic surgeon whose livelihood is predicated on the fact that people obsess over their appearance decided that he didn’t want this patient to do the one thing he’s built his entire career on. The irony. If he had done his job properly, I am certain he wouldn’t have resorted to transparent defensive techniques to silence an unhappy patient. An unhappy and dissatisfied patient being told they are crazy by the Dr. who made them that way (unhappy and dissatisfied) is one of the ugliest things about this whole ordeal. In any event. Here I am today. Still wearing my hair over my face or feeling like I want to. No stars.