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This Doctor Has Been Reported to the Medical Board
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I wanted to add photos from my experience with this doctor. Sadly, it’s been life changing in a negative way. The after care is the worst I have experienced. After care is as important as the ability to do the surgery. To this day, my nose has obvious deformity.
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This Doctor Has Been Reported to the Medical Board
I had a revision rhinoplasty with this surgeon in Texas in 2024. My experience has been life changing.
Within weeks of the surgery, I developed complications including nasal swelling, redness, stiffness, tenderness, along with an unusual, vulgar odor inside my nose. I repeatedly reached out to the surgeon, sharing photos, videos, and detailed descriptions of my symptoms. The most common response I received was, “You’re healing, give it time.” Even with all of this documentation, I was told my first follow-up after cast removal should be in six months, 2025 — despite my ongoing and worsening symptoms.
After calling and messaging many times, they finally scheduled me for an in-person visit almost three months after surgery. This was only after I had been mentioning the stiffness, swelling, redness, and foul odor for some time. I won't go into detail of what she did on my in person visit as she is currently being investigated. I will share that she confirmed I had an active infection. Without compromising the investigation, I will say, how she treats infections, the care or lack of, is not acceptable.
This whole experience has been life changing. I now have a nose that is visibly altered — some would say deformed . I have since reported my experience to the Texas Medical Board and provided documentation for their review.
This is only my personal experience, but I encourage anyone considering surgery to ask detailed questions. For patients, who travel out of state, make sure you ask questions around how a doctor provides care once you return to your home state.
I also want readers, patients to really start writing reviews and sharing experiences. These dcotors are getting away with a lot of questionable actions and accountibility is needed. We are literally placng our life into their hands and they need to respect, value us and not just look at us as income, profit.
Within weeks of the surgery, I developed complications including nasal swelling, redness, stiffness, tenderness, along with an unusual, vulgar odor inside my nose. I repeatedly reached out to the surgeon, sharing photos, videos, and detailed descriptions of my symptoms. The most common response I received was, “You’re healing, give it time.” Even with all of this documentation, I was told my first follow-up after cast removal should be in six months, 2025 — despite my ongoing and worsening symptoms.
After calling and messaging many times, they finally scheduled me for an in-person visit almost three months after surgery. This was only after I had been mentioning the stiffness, swelling, redness, and foul odor for some time. I won't go into detail of what she did on my in person visit as she is currently being investigated. I will share that she confirmed I had an active infection. Without compromising the investigation, I will say, how she treats infections, the care or lack of, is not acceptable.
This whole experience has been life changing. I now have a nose that is visibly altered — some would say deformed . I have since reported my experience to the Texas Medical Board and provided documentation for their review.
This is only my personal experience, but I encourage anyone considering surgery to ask detailed questions. For patients, who travel out of state, make sure you ask questions around how a doctor provides care once you return to your home state.
I also want readers, patients to really start writing reviews and sharing experiences. These dcotors are getting away with a lot of questionable actions and accountibility is needed. We are literally placng our life into their hands and they need to respect, value us and not just look at us as income, profit.
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