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Gary M. Horndeski, MD
Board Certified Plastic Surgeon
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June 2021

This is after the last surgeon worked on part of my breast. Notice how skinny the line is even after I literally had just had this done, like 10 days earlier. The line is even skinnier than Horndeski’s scar line and at Tia point wasn’t even healed yet. Once I can justify spending $15,000 for revisions, I can guarantee you I won’t be going back to him but back to this surgeon instead. Notice my original surgery was in 2017 but this last one was in 2021. Four years later…

Finally a different doctor

After battling reoccurring problems for over four years, last year I decided to seek out a different surgeon and she sent me to another surgeon because they wanted to make sure that there wasn’t an infection; and let me tell you, the (cancer) breast surgeon was able to repair the issue in these pics and some of the damage caused by Dr. Horndeski. She did all of this without using sutures and the final healed result is what I expected the scars were going to look like from the very beginning. She did a phenomenal job. I still need surgery on both sides again to finish repairing the damage Horndeski caused and I’ve now lost so much volume in my right breast that I have to wear a prosthetic breast. I would seriously apply to be on botched if it wasn’t for the fact that my ex best friend works for that quack. suffice to say I would not let any doctor utilize this technique because they were all taught by him and the office staff only shows you the best pictures not the botched pictures. Look into him; he’s been sued more than once! I kept quiet about this because I didn’t want to put her job in jeopardy but at this point I’m more concerned with people not ending up dealing with what I’m dealing with five years later. Steer clear of this doctor!

5 years later - MISTAKE

So I had my lift/reduction with Dr. Horndeski and figured some of you might want to know what I think about it now. Don’t do it with this doctor or this technique!
1. No matter how much research you do and what you read there are still things that can go wrong but no one bothers to really go into. For example, when they cut through your skin to do this surgery they cut through the veins and just cauterize them. They don’t reattach them. I didn’t know that. I ended up with a condition called mondors chords. It’s painful. It sucked.
2. This doctor doesn’t do both sides of the procedure himself. He does one and his PA does the other, or at least that was the case five years ago, which means your breasts don’t come out looking the same. Look through the pictures and look at the nipples of his patients and you can tell. Right off the bat mine were two different sizes. He clearly doesn’t have an eye for size.
3. Neither him nor is PA use common sense to make sure that your nipple placement is correct and pointing forward. Look through the pictures of his patients and pay close attention to the left and right nipple and you’ll see what I’m talking about.
4. No one tells you that there is a chance that your scar line it’s going to be jagged and not heal straight, that you’re going to have keratin build up in pores that you have to express, and that keratin can result in cysts if not removed; and it requires further surgery.
5. Pay attention to the scar lines from his prior patients. They are way too high on the breast and not in the crease. They come way too high in the center making it virtually impossible to wear any low-cut tops, not that you would want to because your cleavage is going to be flat but I’ll explain that in a minute. With the revised way he’s doing this he takes the scar line further back but you don’t see that with a traditional anchor. If I had it to do all over again I would’ve just gone for the anchor.
6. The shape of your breast will start out looking very nice once the triangular shape settles in but then you end up with dog ears the more it drops. Oh but he offers to correct the dog ears in his office under local, unless you want to pay for anesthesia again.
7. Because there’s no anchor the shape you end up with is pancake like and there’s no roundness to your cleavage line anymore. They are straight and flat and I’ve seen this with a lot of the patients that have posted pictures later on down the road.
8. The straps at painful for years to come. It took about three years for them to stop urging in my chest wall.
9. You’re going to sag again, through nowhere near as badly.
10. I’ve had five or six surgeries on my right breast and three on my left thanks to this “revolutionary technique.”
11. You can end up with necrotic lumps that don’t go away and are rocks inside your breast.
12. You can reject sutures and your body literally spit them out.

If I sat down to think about this for more than a minute I could probably tell you 5000 other things that went wrong with this procedure because of the technique, but you get my point.

Notice when my original procedure was done and noticed how much longer I’m still having problems with both breasts…

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Dr. Horndeski is knowledgeable and to the point. I liked that. I expressed my desire to utilize this method because I wanted to reduce the strain on my neck and shoulders, even out size and lift my breasts with minimal scarring. He showed me pictures of the process itself. It's genius. I'm now 3.5 weeks out and I'm not sure how I feel about my choice just yet. I love that my breasts are a high and look great in a bra. As a matter of fact...I LOVE THE WAY THEY LOOK IN A PROPERLY FITTING BRA! I don't love that they look to me to be significantly smaller than what they were and there's a couple things that may need to be tweaked once I'm done healing. But hey, that's motive to shrink my body next. One of the things that you might want to note, if considering this procedure, is that forward projection of the breast is decreased but the base is significantly increased; and that's an adjustment in the way you view your breasts. I mentioned to him that I felt like the top of my breasts were somewhat flat. He said they looked good and were progressing well. At one point in time they were very triangular. The right one has significantly rounded out. So he was right. The left one still has a little bit to go. To clarify, I'm aware that this is a process and the results aren't apparent overnight. So for now, I'm still optimistic and patiently waiting. I think my shape, the feel of them and their placement in my chest is going to be fine. I am mildly concerned that my nipples do not look the same but I'm happy they are level and think this will be a quick, simple fix. I've had some complications but nothing that the doctor caused. Google Mondor's Disease. This happened to me and is a perfect example of why it's important to follow the instructions in the packet his office provides. When you're still swelling your bra can become tight causing this condition. Fortunately this is a temporary and isn't a major problem, but is definitely uncomfortable. After I read about how rare it was I was impressed that he immediately knew what I was talking about and provided insight. Today, one incision started weeping and I contacted his office staff. Jana was amazingly prompt, very helpful and gave me care instructions and called out a precautionary antibiotic immediately. Overall, I have to say my experience has been pretty positive and I'm confident my end results will be as well!