Reviews you can trust, from real people like you.
How it works
- Our highly-trained Review Moderation team evaluates all reviews before they're published to ensure they're written by people like you and not a member of a doctor's office.
- This multi-step process takes up to 24 hours from review submission to publication.
- Doctors can't pay to have reviews removed or hidden.
- Reviews are only removed at the reviewer's request or if they violate our Terms of Service.
If you have questions or believe we should re-evaluate a published review, let us know.
Sort by:
*Treatment results may vary
Photos after 4 days.
I did my 72 hours strapped in and everything was looking great so I took a long shower in the morning and a long shower in the evening and I wore the head strap that the Doctor recommended I buy on Amazon. It left a tiny little pooch that wasn't there with the big head strap so I think I will go back to wearing the big one with the maxi pad for extra push. I am hoping to make my skin heal tight against my muscle. Some of this might be swelling. The bruising isn't painful at all and I just started Arnica Cream today. The wrinkly part is the maxi pad or cotton pads that were used for drainage and now are for extra push. (Like if you fall asleep on someone's corduroy couch and then wake up with the stripe pattern on your face.) Those are not actual wrinkles. The drainage only lasted for two days and wasn't very much. The first two days my skin was super tight up against my jaw but now things are either relaxing or swelling. It still looks pretty great. I haven't felt any pain or discomfort yet. The scariest part of the procedure was wondering how much this is going to hurt when the pain killers wear off. It has been four days and it hasn't hurt at all!! It looks pretty bruised up but that's not a problem.
Smart Lipo on my Chin, Jawline and Jowls. SUPER WORTH IT!
A few years ago I went and got an estimate for submental Lipo and it was $3800 and he told me that I probably really need a facelift. Last year I had a virtual consultation at Elite for their Airsculpting and their estimate was $5000 and they said I might need a neck tightening procedure afterwards. I also went to Sono Bello and she said she could make me look great for $4000. Then a few months ago I got another estimate for $3800.A week later I was browsing the web looking for out of town prices and I found Orange County liposuction Centers $899 per area with a minimum of 2 areas. I read up on Smart Lipo and I liked that it has better results and a much faster recovery time and the procedure tightens your skin. I decided to fly down to John Wayne Airport for one day for an in person consultation because the plane ticket was only $20 each way (Spirit Airlines) and with tax that was $70 round trip and airport parking is another $12.My skin isn't loose or wrinkly but my double chin hangs down and I have small jowls. I am sure with all of that gone I could look between 5 to 10 years younger.
I met with a nurse to talk about what areas I want and than Dr. Mitchell Cohen came in to talk to me. He told me I have great skin that should tighten very well. He explained that the first part would be little needle pricks but after that nothing else hurts. (That part was much less painful than the dentist.)Then he would poke three tiny holes two below my ears and one underneath my chin. He said they are so small you can't even use one stitch to close them. Then he will fill my entire chin area with a liquid that has a bunch of lidocaine in it and I wont feel anything after that except some poking around. This is called Tumescent Lipo and it is the safest. After the area is filled he uses a laser to kill the fat cells and then he liposuctions the whole area. Then he goes through the whole area again and along the entire jawline with a laser and that tightens everything up.He told me I would look great and that I have great skin.
I liked Dr. Mitchell Cohen a lot and I really wanted him to do my surgery. He has a very friendly very enthusiastic personality and seemed eager to do this. It costs $250 more per area if you BMI is over 25 and my BMI was 26 so they wrote up the estimate and two areas at $899 plus $250 per area for my BMI and $80 for a compression garment and $150 for the Covid 19 test all added up to about $2550.If I paid in 24 hours they would have taken $250 off of the total price. I paid the whole thing two weeks later and scheduled my appointment for October 6th 2021.
I ran out the door the next morning and did my blood tests and EKG and everything was 100% covered by insurance. My three prescriptions at Walmart totaled about $16.50 and then there were two more over the counter pills I had to get that both has cheap generic Walmart alternatives.
The expensive part was finding a hotel and flight.I arrived the day before and gave myself two nights to recover because I had to drive home from the airport and I wasn't sure. I would have left the morning after if I had to do it all over again because I wasn't in any pain and I could very easily drive the next day, but I didn't know.
I did the procedure on Wednesday afternoon and it is Friday night and I still haven't felt any pain or significant soreness yet.I have to wear the compression garment for 72 hours before I take it off but I did take it off a few times to peek and it looks awesome! I have a few bruises under the compression garment but absolute the worst looking bruising is along my lower neck which he didn't do lipo on. There is a big blood red striped bruise all of the way across from sleeping elevated and walking around I guess. Gravity I assume?
I will update tomorrow with pictures. I am so thrilled that I did this!! I look so much younger already and the procedure was super easy!
Dr. Mitchell Cohen RULES!!
I met with a nurse to talk about what areas I want and than Dr. Mitchell Cohen came in to talk to me. He told me I have great skin that should tighten very well. He explained that the first part would be little needle pricks but after that nothing else hurts. (That part was much less painful than the dentist.)Then he would poke three tiny holes two below my ears and one underneath my chin. He said they are so small you can't even use one stitch to close them. Then he will fill my entire chin area with a liquid that has a bunch of lidocaine in it and I wont feel anything after that except some poking around. This is called Tumescent Lipo and it is the safest. After the area is filled he uses a laser to kill the fat cells and then he liposuctions the whole area. Then he goes through the whole area again and along the entire jawline with a laser and that tightens everything up.He told me I would look great and that I have great skin.
I liked Dr. Mitchell Cohen a lot and I really wanted him to do my surgery. He has a very friendly very enthusiastic personality and seemed eager to do this. It costs $250 more per area if you BMI is over 25 and my BMI was 26 so they wrote up the estimate and two areas at $899 plus $250 per area for my BMI and $80 for a compression garment and $150 for the Covid 19 test all added up to about $2550.If I paid in 24 hours they would have taken $250 off of the total price. I paid the whole thing two weeks later and scheduled my appointment for October 6th 2021.
I ran out the door the next morning and did my blood tests and EKG and everything was 100% covered by insurance. My three prescriptions at Walmart totaled about $16.50 and then there were two more over the counter pills I had to get that both has cheap generic Walmart alternatives.
The expensive part was finding a hotel and flight.I arrived the day before and gave myself two nights to recover because I had to drive home from the airport and I wasn't sure. I would have left the morning after if I had to do it all over again because I wasn't in any pain and I could very easily drive the next day, but I didn't know.
I did the procedure on Wednesday afternoon and it is Friday night and I still haven't felt any pain or significant soreness yet.I have to wear the compression garment for 72 hours before I take it off but I did take it off a few times to peek and it looks awesome! I have a few bruises under the compression garment but absolute the worst looking bruising is along my lower neck which he didn't do lipo on. There is a big blood red striped bruise all of the way across from sleeping elevated and walking around I guess. Gravity I assume?
I will update tomorrow with pictures. I am so thrilled that I did this!! I look so much younger already and the procedure was super easy!
Dr. Mitchell Cohen RULES!!
Provider Review
